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	Amend CSHB 1324 (house committee printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and 
renumbering existing SECTIONS appropriately:
	SECTION ____.  Section 37.001(a), Education Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	(a)  The board of trustees of an independent school district 
shall, with the advice of its district-level committee established 
under Subchapter F, Chapter 11, adopt a student code of conduct for 
the district.  The student code of conduct must be posted and 
prominently displayed at each school campus or made available for 
review at the office of the campus principal.  In addition to 
establishing standards for student conduct, the student code of 
conduct must:
		(1)  specify the circumstances, in accordance with this 
subchapter, under which a student may be removed from a classroom, 
campus, or disciplinary alternative education program;
		(2)  specify conditions that authorize or require a 
principal or other appropriate administrator to transfer a student 
to a disciplinary alternative education program;
		(3)  outline conditions under which a student may be 
suspended as provided by Section 37.005 or expelled as provided by 
Section 37.007;
		(4)  specify that [whether] consideration will be [is] 
given, as a factor in a decision regarding [to order] suspension, 
removal to a disciplinary alternative education program, or 
expulsion, to:
			(A)  self-defense;                                                           
			(B)  intent or lack of intent at the time the 
student engaged in the conduct;
			(C)  a student's disciplinary history; or                                    
			(D)  a disability that substantially impairs the 
student's capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of the student's 
conduct;
		(5)  provide guidelines for setting the length of a 
term of:                
			(A)  a removal under Section 37.006; and                                     
			(B)  an expulsion under Section 37.007;                                      
		(6)  address the notification of a student's parent or 
guardian of a violation of the student code of conduct committed by 
the student that results in suspension, removal to a disciplinary 
alternative education program, or expulsion;
		(7)  prohibit bullying, harassment, and making hit 
lists and ensure that district employees enforce those 
prohibitions; and
		(8)  provide, as appropriate for students at each grade 
level, methods, including options, for:
			(A)  managing students in the classroom and on 
school grounds;             
			(B)  disciplining students;  and                                             
			(C)  preventing and intervening in student 
discipline problems, including bullying, harassment, and making 
hit lists.