H.B. 552 78(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


H.B. 552
By: Hegar
Public Education
Committee Report (Unamended)



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Currently, a school district does not have the express written authority
to expel a student that commits an expellable offense (Section 37.007,
Education Code) on school property or at a school sponsored event  in
another school district. House Bill 552 authorizes the school district
which the student attends to expel the student if they engage in an
expellable offense in another school district. 


RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any
additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or
institution. 


ANALYSIS

House Bill 552 amends the Education Code to provide that a student who
engages in an expellable offense may 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 activity of a school in another
district in this state. 

This Act applies beginning with the 2003-2004 school year.


EFFECTIVE DATE

Upon passage, or, if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act
takes effect September 1, 2003.