By Johnson H.B. No. 2332
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the creation of special purpose public schools and
1-3 school districts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 11.28, Education Code, is amended by
1-6 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (j) to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (a) On the recommendation of the commissioner of education
1-9 and after consulting with the local school districts involved and
1-10 obtaining the approval of a majority of those districts, the <The
1-11 power of the> State Board of Education may <to> create and
1-12 establish a special purpose public school or <independent> school
1-13 district for the education of students in special situations whose
1-14 educational needs are not adequately met by regular school
1-15 districts. The board may impose duties or limitations on the
1-16 school or district as necessary for the special purpose of the
1-17 school or district. The board <districts has been abolished, but
1-18 the State Board of Education> shall <continue to> exercise the
1-19 powers as provided in this section in relation to the schools and
1-20 districts created under the authority of this subsection and in
1-21 relation to those independent school districts which were created
1-22 by the board under its former authority to create independent
1-23 school districts.
1-24 (j) The independent or common school district that is
2-1 responsible for providing education services to a student who is
2-2 enrolled in a special purpose school or school district created
2-3 under Subsection (a) of this section shall share the cost of the
2-4 student's education in the manner provided under Section 21.507 of
2-5 this code for students enrolled in the Texas School for the Blind
2-6 and Visually Impaired or the Texas School for the Deaf unless the
2-7 State Board of Education finds that the student's education in a
2-8 particular special purpose school or school district should not be
2-9 the responsibility of the independent or common school district.
2-10 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
2-11 school year.
2-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-18 passage, and it is so enacted.