Bill Text: TX HB692 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the suspension of a student who is homeless from public school.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-07 - Effective immediately [HB692 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB692-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 692 | ||
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| relating to the suspension of a student who is homeless from public | ||
| school. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 37.005, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
| (d) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
| not place a student who is homeless in out-of-school suspension | ||
| unless the student engages in conduct described by Subsections | ||
| (c)(1)-(3) while on school property or while attending a | ||
| school-sponsored or school-related activity on or off of school | ||
| property. The campus behavior coordinator may coordinate with the | ||
| school district's homeless education liaison to identify | ||
| appropriate alternatives to out-of-school suspension for a student | ||
| who is homeless. In this subsection, "student who is homeless" has | ||
| the meaning assigned to the term "homeless children and youths" | ||
| under 42 U.S.C. Section 11434a. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 692 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 9, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 3, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 692 on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 2, 2 | ||
| present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 692 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 15, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
