81R710 PAM-D
By: Dutton H.B. No. 943
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to disciplinary actions imposed on public school students
who disrupt the conduct of class or other school activities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 37, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 37.0052 to read as follows:
Sec. 37.0052. SUSPENSION OF STUDENT FOR DISRUPTION OF
CLASSES IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES. (a) In this section:
(1) "Disrupting the conduct of classes or other school
activities," "public property," and "school property" have the
meanings assigned by Section 37.124(c).
(2) "Student" means any person who is registered in or
in attendance at a public school.
(b) A principal may place a student into in-school
suspension if the student, on school property or on public property
within 500 feet of school property, alone or in concert with others,
intentionally disrupts the conduct of classes or other school
activities.
(c) A suspension under this section may not exceed three
school days.
SECTION 2. Section 37.124(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) A person other than a student commits an offense if the
person, on school property or on public property within 500 feet of
school property, alone or in concert with others, intentionally
disrupts the conduct of classes or other school activities.
SECTION 3. Section 37.124(c), Education Code, is amended by
adding Subdivision (4) to read as follows:
(4) "Student" has the meaning assigned by Section
37.0052.
SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2009-2010
school year.
SECTION 5. (a) The change in law made by Section
37.124(a), Education Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to
an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before the
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
before that date.
(b) An offense committed before the effective date of this
Act is governed by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 6. 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, 2009.