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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to exclusion of certain public school student disciplinary |
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actions from reports required by state or federal law. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 37.002, Education Code, is amended by |
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adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: |
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(e) A student who is sent to the campus behavior |
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coordinator's or other administrator's office under Subsection (a) |
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or removed from class under Subsection (b) is not considered to have |
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been removed from the classroom for the purposes of reporting data |
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through the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) |
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or other similar reports required by state or federal law. |
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SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 |
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school year. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |