By:  Van de Putte                                     S.B. No. 1525
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the offense of disruption of a class or other school
 1-3     activity.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Sections 37.124(a) and (b), Education Code, are
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  A person commits an offense if the person, on school
 1-8     property or on public property within 500 feet of school property,
 1-9     alone or in concert with others, intentionally disrupts the conduct
1-10     of a class [classes] or other school activity [activities].
1-11           (b)  An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor,
1-12     unless the person has previously been convicted of an offense under
1-13     this section, in which event the offense is a Class B misdemeanor.
1-14           SECTION 2.  Section 37.124(c)(1), Education Code, is amended
1-15     to read as follows:
1-16           (c)  In this section:
1-17                 (1)  "Disrupting the conduct of a class [classes] or
1-18     other school activity [activities]" includes:
1-19                       (A)  emitting noise of an intensity that prevents
1-20     or hinders the conduct of a class or other school activity
1-21     [classroom instruction];
1-22                       (B)  enticing or attempting to entice a student
1-23     away from a class or other school activity that the student is
 2-1     required to attend;
 2-2                       (C)  preventing or attempting to prevent a
 2-3     student from attending a class or other school activity that the
 2-4     student is required to attend; [and]
 2-5                       (D)  preventing or hindering entrance to or exit
 2-6     from school property during the period beginning one hour before
 2-7     commencement of classes for the school day and ending one hour
 2-8     after conclusion of classes for the school day, although nothing in
 2-9     this subsection shall prevent the legitimate exercise of the rights
2-10     of free speech or assembly under the Texas and U.S. constitutions;
2-11     and
2-12                       (E)  entering a classroom without the consent of
2-13     either the principal or the teacher and, through either acts of
2-14     misconduct or the use of loud or profane language, disrupting a
2-15     class or other school activity [activities].
2-16           SECTION 3.  Section 37.124(c)(4), Education Code, is added to
2-17     read as follows:
2-18                 (4)  "School activity" includes an activity held on
2-19     school property before or after school.
2-20           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.