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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