1-1     By:  Bivins, Ogden                                     S.B. No. 260
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 25, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
 1-4     February 18, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
 1-5     6, Nays 0; February 18, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the expulsion of a public school student who assaults a
 1-9     school employee or volunteer.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 37.007, Education Code,
1-12     is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (b)  A student may be expelled if the student, while on
1-14     school property or while attending a school-sponsored or
1-15     school-related activity on or off of school property:
1-16                 (1)  sells, gives, or delivers to another person or
1-17     possesses, uses, or is under the influence of any amount of:
1-18                       (A)  marihuana or a controlled substance, as
1-19     defined by Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, or by 21 U.S.C.
1-20     Section 801 et seq.;
1-21                       (B)  a dangerous drug, as defined by Chapter 483,
1-22     Health and Safety Code; or
1-23                       (C)  an alcoholic beverage, as defined by Section
1-24     1.04, Alcoholic Beverage Code; [or]
1-25                 (2)  engages in conduct that contains the elements of
1-26     an offense relating to abusable glue or aerosol paint under
1-27     Sections 485.031 through 485.035, Health and Safety Code, or
1-28     relating to volatile chemicals under Chapter 484, Health and Safety
1-29     Code; or
1-30                 (3)  engages in conduct that contains the elements of
1-31     an offense under Section 22.01(a)(1), Penal Code, against a school
1-32     district employee or a volunteer as defined by Section 22.053.
1-33           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-34     school year.
1-35           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-36     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-40     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-41     passage, and it is so enacted.
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