SRC-AMY H.B. 552 78(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 552
78R1679 CAS-DBy: Hegar (Janek)
Education
5/20/2003
Engrossed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Currently, a school district does not have the express written authority
to expel a student who commits an expellable offense on school property in
another school district or at a schoolsponsored event in another school
district. H.B. 552 authorizes the school district in which the student
attends to expel a student who engages in an expellable offense in another
school district. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to
a state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 37.007, Education Code, by adding Subsection
(i), to authorize a student who engages in conduct described by Subsection
(a) to be expelled from school by the district in which the student
attends school if the student engages in that conduct on school property
of another district in this state or while attending a school-sponsored or
school-related activity of a school in another district in this state. 

SECTION 2.  Provides that this Act applies beginning with the 2003-2004
school year. 

SECTION 3.  Effective date:  upon passage or September 1, 2003.