H.B. No. 1563
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the issuance of posthumous high school diplomas to
  certain students.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 28, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 28.0254 to read as follows:
         Sec. 28.0254.  POSTHUMOUS HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA FOR CERTAIN
  STUDENTS. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code,
  but subject to Subsection (b), on request of the student's parent, a
  school district shall issue a high school diploma posthumously to
  each student who died while enrolled in the district at grade level
  12, provided that the student was academically on track at the time
  of death to receive a diploma at the end of the school year in which
  the student died. For purposes of this subsection, "school year"
  includes any summer session following the spring semester.
         (b)  A school district is not required to issue a high school
  diploma to a student described by Subsection (a) if the student at
  any time before the student's death was convicted of a felony
  offense under Title 5 or 6, Penal Code, or adjudicated as having
  engaged in conduct constituting a felony offense under Title 5 or 6,
  Penal Code.
         SECTION 2.  Section 28.0254, Education Code, as added by
  this Act, applies beginning with students enrolled at grade level
  12 during the 2005-2006 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, 2007.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1563 was passed by the House on May 8,
  2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 146, Nays 0, 2 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 1563 on May 25, 2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 125, Nays 0,
  1 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1563 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 23, 2007, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
  0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor