By Shapiro S.B. No. 1330 76R9040 KKA-D 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.