Bill Text: TX HB3654 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
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-Engrossed.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), (a-2), and (b-1) 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). | ||
| (b-1) Section 37.004 applies to any placement under this | ||
| section that would constitute a change in placement under federal | ||
| law of a student with a disability who receives special education | ||
| services. | ||
| 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. | ||
