By Whitmire S.B. No. 1213 76R7987 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to discipline management techniques that a public school 1-3 teacher may use. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 37, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 37.0021 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 37.0021. OTHER DISCIPLINE MANAGEMENT AUTHORIZED FOR 1-8 TEACHERS. (a) In addition to removing a student from class under 1-9 Section 37.002 or using a discipline management technique 1-10 authorized under other law and school district policy, a teacher 1-11 may: 1-12 (1) verbally discipline a student; 1-13 (2) physically isolate a student in the teacher's 1-14 classroom; 1-15 (3) withhold one or more privileges from a student; 1-16 (4) use a physically harmless prop in disciplining a 1-17 student; or 1-18 (5) use a disciplinary measure other than a measure 1-19 specified under Subdivision (1), (2), (3), or (4) that does not 1-20 rise to the level of corporal punishment and that is reasonably 1-21 calculated to maintain decorum, discipline, or order in the 1-22 teacher's classroom. 1-23 (b) The board of trustees of a school district, a school 1-24 district employee, or the State Board for Educator Certification 2-1 may not discipline a teacher in any manner for an action the 2-2 teacher takes in accordance with this section. 2-3 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 2-4 school year. 2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.