Texas 2019 - 86th Regular

Texas House Bill HB3322 Latest Draft

Bill / Comm Sub Version Filed 04/18/2019

                            86R23561 MP-F
 By: Burns H.B. No. 3322
 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3322:
 By:  Allison C.S.H.B. No. 3322


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to requiring a school district to post on the district's
 Internet website the contact information of the school
 administrator primarily responsible for student discipline at a
 district campus.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Chapter 26, Education Code, is amended by adding
 Section 26.015 to read as follows:
 Sec. 26.015.  POSTING OF INFORMATION REGARDING
 ADMINISTRATOR RESPONSIBLE FOR STUDENT DISCIPLINE. A school
 district shall post on the district's Internet website, for each
 district campus, the e-mail address and dedicated telephone number
 of a person clearly identified as:
 (1)  the campus behavior coordinator designated under
 Section 37.0012; or
 (2)  if the district has been designated as a district
 of innovation under Chapter 12A and is exempt from the requirement
 to designate a campus behavior coordinator under Section 37.0012
 under the district's local innovation plan, a campus administrator
 designated as being responsible for student discipline.
 SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
 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, 2019.