Bill Text: TX SB2432 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the removal of a public school student from the classroom following certain conduct.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB2432 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2432-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the removal of a public school student from the classroom following certain conduct.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB2432 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2432-Comm_Sub.html
By: Taylor | S.B. No. 2432 | |
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relating to the removal of a public school student from the | ||
classroom following certain conduct. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 37.006(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) A student shall be removed from class and placed in a | ||
disciplinary alternative education program as provided by Section | ||
37.008 if the student: | ||
(1) engages in conduct involving a public school that | ||
contains the elements of the offense of false alarm or report under | ||
Section 42.06, Penal Code, or terroristic threat under Section | ||
22.07, Penal Code; or | ||
(2) commits the following on or within 300 feet of | ||
school property, as measured from any point on the school's real | ||
property boundary line, or while attending a school-sponsored or | ||
school-related activity on or off of school property: | ||
(A) engages in conduct punishable as a felony; | ||
(B) engages in conduct that contains the elements | ||
of the offense of assault under Section 22.01(a)(1), Penal Code; | ||
(C) sells, gives, or delivers to another person | ||
or possesses or uses or is under the influence of: | ||
(i) marihuana or a controlled substance, as | ||
defined by Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, or by 21 U.S.C. | ||
Section 801 et seq.; or | ||
(ii) a dangerous drug, as defined by | ||
Chapter 483, Health and Safety Code; | ||
(D) sells, gives, or delivers to another person | ||
an alcoholic beverage, as defined by Section 1.04, Alcoholic | ||
Beverage Code, commits a serious act or offense while under the | ||
influence of alcohol, or possesses, uses, or is under the influence | ||
of an alcoholic beverage; | ||
(E) engages in conduct that contains the elements | ||
of an offense relating to an abusable volatile chemical under | ||
Sections 485.031 through 485.034, Health and Safety Code; [ |
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(F) engages in conduct that contains the elements | ||
of the offense of public lewdness under Section 21.07, Penal Code, | ||
or indecent exposure under Section 21.08, Penal Code; or | ||
(G) engages in conduct that contains the elements | ||
of the offense of harassment under Section 42.07(a)(1), (2), (3), | ||
or (7), Penal Code, against an employee of the school district. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
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, 2019. |