By Wilson                                              H.B. No. 669
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the suspension of a student from participation in
 1-3     extracurricular activities.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Sections 33.081(c) and (d), Education Code, are
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  A student who is enrolled in a school district in this
 1-8     state or who participates in a University Interscholastic League
 1-9     competition shall be suspended from participation in any
1-10     extracurricular activity sponsored or sanctioned by the school
1-11     district or the University Interscholastic League after a grade
1-12     evaluation period in which the student's grade average in academic
1-13     classes, excluding identified honors or advanced classes, is
1-14     [student received a grade] lower than the equivalent of 70 on a
1-15     scale of 100 [in any academic class other than an identified honors
1-16     or advanced class].  A suspension continues for at least three
1-17     school weeks and is not removed during the school year until the
1-18     conditions of Subsection (d) are met.  A suspension does not last
1-19     beyond the end of a school year.  For purposes of this subsection,
1-20     "grade evaluation period" means:
1-21                 (1)  the six-week grade reporting period; or
1-22                 (2)  the first six weeks of a semester and each grade
1-23     reporting period thereafter, in the case of a district with a grade
1-24     reporting period longer than six weeks.
 2-1           (d)  Until the suspension is removed under this subsection or
 2-2     the school year ends, a school district shall review the grades of
 2-3     a student suspended under Subsection (c) at the end of each
 2-4     three-week period following the date on which the suspension began.
 2-5     At the time of a review, the suspension is removed if the student's
 2-6     grade average in academic classes, excluding identified honors or
 2-7     advanced classes [in each class, other than an identified honors or
 2-8     advanced class], is equal to or greater than the equivalent of 70
 2-9     on a scale of 100.  The principal and each of the student's
2-10     teachers shall make the determination concerning the student's
2-11     grades.
2-12           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2001-2002
2-13     school year.
2-14           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-15     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-16     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
2-17     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-18     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.