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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