Amend HB 359 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 37.124, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) It is an exception to the application of Subsection (a) that, at the time the person engaged in conduct prohibited under that subsection, the person was a student in the sixth grade or a lower grade level.
SECTION ____. Section 37.126, Education Code, is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Section 37.125, a person commits an offense if the person intentionally disrupts, prevents, or interferes with the lawful transportation of children:
(1) to or from school on a vehicle owned or operated by a county or independent school district; or
(2) to or from [or] an activity sponsored by a school on a vehicle owned or operated by a county or independent school district.
(c) It is an exception to the application of Subsection (a)(1) that, at the time the person engaged in conduct prohibited under that subdivision, the person was a student in the sixth grade or a lower grade level.
SECTION ____. Section 42.01, Penal Code, is amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) It is an exception to the application of Subsections (a)(1), (2), (3), (5), or (6) that, at the time the person engaged in conduct prohibited under the applicable subdivision, the person was a student in the sixth grade or a lower grade level, and the prohibited conduct occurred at a public school campus during regular school hours.
SECTION ____. The change in law made by Sections 37.124, Education Code, 37.126, Education Code, and 42.01, Penal Code, as amended by this Act applies only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date.