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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-11 - Referred to Public Education [HB2221 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2221-Introduced.html
83R6550 GCB-D | ||
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. |