Bill Text: TX HB3654 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the suspension of a public school student for engaging in certain conduct against an employee or volunteer of a school district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-10 - Referred to Education [HB3654 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3654-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the suspension of a public school student for engaging in certain conduct against an employee or volunteer of a school district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-10 - Referred to Education [HB3654 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3654-Introduced.html
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By: Davis | H.B. No. 3654 |
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relating to the suspension of a public school student for engaging | ||
in certain conduct against an employee or volunteer of a school | ||
district. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 37.005, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) The principal or other appropriate administrator | ||
shall suspend a student who engages in conduct on or off school | ||
property against any employee or volunteer in retaliation for or as | ||
a result of the person's employment or association with a school | ||
district that: | ||
(1) contains the elements of an offense under Section | ||
22.01(a)(1), Penal Code; or | ||
(2) is otherwise deliberately violent and threatens | ||
the health or safety of another. | ||
(a-2) Subsection (b) does not apply to conduct described by | ||
Subsection (a-1). | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
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, 2023. |