By:  Grusendorf                                                   H.B. No. 2072



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to payment for missing textbooks in public schools.                  
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 31.104, Education Code, is amended by 
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
	(e)  The board of trustees of a school district may not 
require an employee of the district to pay for a textbook that is 
stolen, misplaced, or not returned by a student.
	SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2003–2004 
school year. 
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.