Bill Text: TX HB916 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to corporal punishment in public schools.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-15 - Left pending in committee [HB916 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB916-Introduced.html
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By: Allen | H.B. No. 916 |
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relating to corporal punishment in public schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 37, Education Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subchapter Z to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER Z. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS | ||
RELATING TO DISCIPLINE | ||
Sec. 37.901. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. (a) In this section, | ||
"corporal punishment" includes hitting, spanking, paddling, or | ||
deliberately inflicting physical pain by any means on the whole or | ||
any part of a student's body as a penalty or punishment for the | ||
student's behavior on or off campus. | ||
(b) A school district employee or a volunteer or independent | ||
contractor of a district may not administer corporal punishment or | ||
cause corporal punishment to be administered to a student. | ||
(c) A school district employee or a volunteer or independent | ||
contractor of a district may use reasonable and necessary physical | ||
restraining techniques for the purpose of: | ||
(1) preventing a student from injuring a person or | ||
property; | ||
(2) self-defense; or | ||
(3) obtaining from a student possession of an object | ||
specified by Section 37.007(a)(1) or another dangerous object. | ||
(d) Section 9.62, Penal Code, and Section 22.0511(a) do not | ||
apply to an action of a school district employee or a volunteer or | ||
independent contractor of a district that violates Subsection (b). | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2011. |