By: Shapiro S.B. No. 1330
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to limiting the assignment of a student to a particular
1-2 class under certain circumstances.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 37, Education Code, is
1-5 amended by adding Section 37.0031 to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 37.0031. LIMITING ASSIGNMENT OF CERTAIN STUDENTS TO
1-7 CLASS OF VICTIM. A student who has been adjudicated as having
1-8 engaged in delinquent conduct as defined under Section 51.03,
1-9 Family Code, that included violation of Section 21.11, 22.011, or
1-10 22.021, Penal Code, or who has been convicted of an offense under
1-11 one of those sections may not be assigned to the same classroom as
1-12 the victim of that delinquent conduct or offense, as applicable,
1-13 without the consent of the victim's parent or of the victim, if the
1-14 victim is 18 years of age or older, unless the committee
1-15 established under Section 37.003 determines that such a placement
1-16 is the only alternative.
1-17 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 37.003, Education Code,
1-18 is amended to read as follows:
1-19 (a) Each school shall establish a three-member committee to
1-20 determine placement of a student when a teacher refuses the return
1-21 of a student to the teacher's classroom or a parent or victim
1-22 refuses the student's assignment to a classroom under Section
1-23 37.0031 [class] and to make recommendations to the district
1-24 regarding readmission of expelled students. Members shall be
2-1 appointed as follows:
2-2 (1) the campus faculty shall choose two teachers to
2-3 serve as members and one teacher to serve as an alternate member;
2-4 and
2-5 (2) the principal shall choose one member from the
2-6 professional staff of a campus.
2-7 SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
2-8 school year.
2-9 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-15 passage, and it is so enacted.