(a) The principal or other appropriate administrator may suspend a student who engages in conduct identified in the student code of conduct adopted under § 37.001 as conduct for which a student may be suspended.
(b) A suspension under this section may not exceed three school days.

(c) A student who is enrolled in a grade level below grade three may not be placed in out-of-school suspension unless while on school property or while attending a school-sponsored or school-related activity on or off of school property, the student engages in:
(1) conduct that contains the elements of an offense related to weapons under § 46.02 or 46.05, Penal Code;
(2) conduct that contains the elements of a violent offense under § 22.01, 22.011, 22.02, or 22.021, Penal Code; or
(3) selling, giving, or delivering to another person or possessing, using, or being under the influence of any amount of:
(A) marihuana or a controlled substance, as defined by Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, or by 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq.;
(B) a dangerous drug, as defined by Chapter 483, Health and Safety Code; or
(C) an alcoholic beverage, as defined by § 1.04, Alcoholic Beverage Code.
(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. § 11434a.
(e) A school district shall provide to a student during the period of the student’s suspension under this section, regardless of whether the student is placed in in-school or out-of-school suspension, an alternative means of receiving all course work provided in the classes in the foundation curriculum under § 28.002(a)(1) that the student misses as a result of the suspension. The district must provide at least one option for receiving the course work that does not require the use of the Internet.