Bill Text: TX SB1001 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the suspension of a student who is homeless from public school.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-04 - Committee report printed and distributed [SB1001 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1001-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Watson | S.B. No. 1001 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed February 22, 2019; March 1, 2019, | ||
| read first time and referred to Committee on Education; | ||
| April 4, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
| Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 4, 2019, | ||
| sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1001 | By: Watson | |
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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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