1-1     By:  Shapiro                                          S.B. No. 1330
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 26, 1999,
 1-4     reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 26, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1330                    By:  West
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to limiting the assignment of a student to a particular
1-10     class under certain circumstances.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 37, Education Code, is
1-13     amended by adding Section 37.0031 to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 37.0031.  LIMITING ASSIGNMENT OF CERTAIN STUDENTS TO
1-15     CLASS OF VICTIM.  A student who has been adjudicated as having
1-16     engaged in delinquent conduct as defined under Section 51.03,
1-17     Family Code, that included violation of Section 21.11, 22.011, or
1-18     22.021, Penal Code, or who has been convicted of an offense under
1-19     one of those sections may not be assigned to the same classroom as
1-20     the victim of that delinquent conduct or offense, as applicable,
1-21     without the consent of the victim's parent or of the victim, if the
1-22     victim is 18 years of age or older, unless the committee
1-23     established under Section 37.003 determines that such a placement
1-24     is the only alternative.
1-25           SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Section 37.003, Education Code,
1-26     is amended to read as follows:
1-27           (a)  Each school shall establish a three-member committee to
1-28     determine placement of a student when a teacher refuses the return
1-29     of a student to the teacher's classroom or a parent or victim
1-30     refuses the student's assignment to a classroom under Section
1-31     37.0031 [class] and to make recommendations to the district
1-32     regarding readmission of expelled students.  Members shall be
1-33     appointed as follows:
1-34                 (1)  the campus faculty shall choose two teachers to
1-35     serve as members and one teacher to serve as an alternate member;
1-36     and
1-37                 (2)  the principal shall choose one member from the
1-38     professional staff of a campus.
1-39           SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-40     school year.
1-41           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-42     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-43     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-44     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-45     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-46     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-47     passage, and it is so enacted.
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