Bill Text: TX HB3219 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the discipline and behavior management of a public school student.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3219 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3219-Introduced.html
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| By: Allison | H.B. No. 3219 | |
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| relating to the discipline and behavior management of a public | ||
| school student. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 37.0012, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: | ||
| (g) If a student violates the student code of conduct | ||
| adopted under Section 37.001, the campus behavior coordinator may: | ||
| (1) create a behavior contract for the student stating | ||
| that appropriate disciplinary action may be taken against the | ||
| student as provided by the student code of conduct if the student | ||
| continues to engage in the violative behavior; and | ||
| (2) require the student and the student's parent or | ||
| guardian to sign the contract as a condition of not taking immediate | ||
| disciplinary action against the student. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 37.008(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) Each school district shall provide a disciplinary | ||
| alternative education program that: | ||
| (1) is provided in a setting other than a student's | ||
| regular classroom; | ||
| (2) is located on or off of a regular school campus; | ||
| (3) provides for the students who are assigned to the | ||
| disciplinary alternative education program to be separated from | ||
| students who are not assigned to the program; | ||
| (4) focuses on English language arts, mathematics, | ||
| science, history, and self-discipline; | ||
| (5) provides for students' educational and behavioral | ||
| needs, including by administering relevant behavioral assessments; | ||
| (6) provides supervision and counseling; and | ||
| (7) employs only teachers who meet all certification | ||
| requirements established under Subchapter B, Chapter 21. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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. | ||
