By Shapiro                                            S.B. No. 1330
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to limiting the assignment of a student to a particular
 1-3     class under certain circumstances.
 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 37.0031 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 37.0031.  LIMITING ASSIGNMENT OF CERTAIN STUDENTS TO
 1-8     CLASS OF VICTIM.  A student who has been adjudicated as having
 1-9     engaged in delinquent conduct as defined under Section 51.03,
1-10     Family Code,  that included violation of Section 21.11, 22.011, or
1-11     22.021, Penal Code, or who has been convicted of an offense under
1-12     one of those sections, may not be assigned to the same class as the
1-13     victim of that delinquent conduct or offense, as applicable,
1-14     without the consent of the victim's parent or of the victim, if the
1-15     victim is 18 years of age or older, unless the committee
1-16     established under Section 37.003 determines that such a placement
1-17     is the only alternative.
1-18           SECTION 2.  Section 37.003(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-19     read as follows:
1-20           (a)  Each school shall establish a three-member committee to
1-21     determine placement of a student when a teacher refuses the return
1-22     of a student to the teacher's class or a parent or victim refuses
1-23     the student's assignment to a class under Section 37.0031 and to
1-24     make recommendations to the district regarding readmission of
 2-1     expelled students.  Members shall be 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.