Bill Text: TX HB2221 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a compliance report submitted to the United States Department of Education containing data concerning certain citations issued and certain incidences of students taken into custody on public school property.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-11 - Referred to Public Education [HB2221 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2221-Introduced.html
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| By: Wu | H.B. No. 2221 | |
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| relating to a compliance report submitted to the United States | ||
| Department of Education containing data concerning certain | ||
| citations issued and certain incidences of students taken into | ||
| custody on public school property. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 37.0811 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 37.0811. COMPLIANCE REPORT FOR SUBMISSION TO UNITED | ||
| STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: CITATIONS AND STUDENTS TAKEN INTO | ||
| CUSTODY. (a) In this section, "citation" means a ticket issued by | ||
| a school district peace officer to a student for a Class C | ||
| misdemeanor. | ||
| (b) Not later than the 60th day after the last day of classes | ||
| for the school year, the superintendent of a school district, to | ||
| demonstrate compliance with Title VI, Civil Rights Act of 1964 | ||
| (Pub. L. No. 88-352), shall submit to the United States Department | ||
| of Education Office for Civil Rights a compliance report that | ||
| contains incident-based data describing the total number of | ||
| citations issued and the total number of students taken into | ||
| custody by a peace officer on school property in the district during | ||
| regular school hours for the preceding school year, organized by | ||
| campus. The incident-based data submitted under this subsection | ||
| must include information identifying: | ||
| (1) the age of the student; | ||
| (2) the gender of the student; | ||
| (3) the race or ethnicity of the student; | ||
| (4) whether the student is eligible for special | ||
| education services under Section 29.003; | ||
| (5) whether the student is educationally | ||
| disadvantaged; | ||
| (6) the offense involved; | ||
| (7) the campus where the offense occurred; and | ||
| (8) the number of citations as authorized by Article | ||
| 14.06(b), Code of Criminal Procedure, issued to students as | ||
| compared to the number of custodial arrests, disaggregated by each | ||
| category of student described in Subdivisions (1)-(5). | ||
| (c) The superintendent shall ensure a copy of each report | ||
| submitted under Subsection (b) is maintained on file with the | ||
| school district until the 10th anniversary of the date the report is | ||
| submitted. | ||
| (d) The superintendent shall post on the school district's | ||
| Internet website the report submitted under Subsection (b). | ||
| (e) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to | ||
| administer this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 37.0811, Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with the 2013-2014 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, 2013. | ||
