1-1     By:  Crownover (Senate Sponsor - Fraser)              H.B. No. 1276
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 2001;
 1-3     May 11, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Education; May 11, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 11, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to use of a student's legal surname in a public school.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 25, Education Code, is
1-11     amended by adding Section 25.0021 to read as follows:
1-12           Sec. 25.0021.  USE OF LEGAL SURNAME.  In each public school a
1-13     student must be identified by the student's legal surname as that
1-14     name appears:
1-15                 (1)  on the student's birth certificate or other
1-16     document suitable as proof of the student's identity; or
1-17                 (2)  in a court order changing the student's name.
1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2001-2002
1-19     school year.
1-20           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-21     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-22     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-23     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-24     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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