Bill Text: TX HB946 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the reporting of information by a school district relating to certain offenses committed by certain students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB946 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB946-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Giddings, et al. | H.B. No. 946 | |
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| relating to the reporting of information by a school district | ||
| relating to certain offenses committed by certain students. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 37.023 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 37.023. REPORTS RELATING TO CERTAIN OFFENSES COMMITTED | ||
| BY CERTAIN STUDENTS. (a) In the manner required by the | ||
| commissioner and subject to Subsection (b), each school district | ||
| shall annually report to the commissioner information relating to | ||
| each offense that does not involve the use of a weapon: | ||
| (1) committed during school hours on school property | ||
| by a student who is younger than 12 years of age; and | ||
| (2) for which the student receives a citation. | ||
| (b) Conduct that must be reported under Subsection (a) | ||
| includes only conduct that: | ||
| (1) is not harassment as defined by Section 37.001; | ||
| (2) occurs between two students; | ||
| (3) is not violent; | ||
| (4) involves open-handed physical contact; and | ||
| (5) is not intended to cause harm and is playful. | ||
| (c) The report required under Subsection (a) must include: | ||
| (1) the offense committed by the student; | ||
| (2) the age and sex of the student; | ||
| (3) the race or ethnicity of the student; | ||
| (4) the grade level of the student; and | ||
| (5) the campus to which the student is assigned. | ||
| (d) The commissioner may adopt rules necessary to implement | ||
| this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014 | ||
| 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, 2013. | ||
