Bill Text: TX HB692 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
By: White, Wu (Senate Sponsor - Watson) | H.B. No. 692 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2019; | ||
April 15, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Administration; May 9, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; | ||
May 9, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 692 | By: Huffman |
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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. | ||
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