H.B. No. 2332
    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 in each
   1-11  affected county in which a school is located, the <The power of
   1-12  the> State Board of Education may <to> create and establish a
   1-13  special purpose public school or <independent> school district for
   1-14  the education of students in special situations whose educational
   1-15  needs are not adequately met by regular school districts.  The
   1-16  board may impose duties or limitations on the school or district as
   1-17  necessary for the special purpose of the school or district.  The
   1-18  board <districts has been abolished, but the State Board of
   1-19  Education> shall <continue to> exercise the powers as provided in
   1-20  this section in relation to the schools and districts created under
   1-21  the authority of this subsection and in relation to those
   1-22  independent school districts which were created by the board under
   1-23  its former authority to create independent 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.