SRC-JRN S.B. 1654 75(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 1654
By: Nelson
Education
4-8-97
As Filed


DIGEST 

Currently, the Education Code is limited in the provisions it applies to
certain students expelled from public school or ordered to attend a
juvenile justice alternative education program.  The Education Code does
not contain a clear statutory provision for the placement of a student who
moves from one county to another while enrolled in a juvenile justice
alternative education program in a similar program in the county to which
the student moves.  This bill clarifies the provision for placement of a
student who moves from one county to another while enrolled in a juvenile
justice alternative education program in a similar program in the county
to which the student moves. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.B. 1654 clarifies the provision for placement of a student
who moves from one county to another while enrolled in a juvenile justice
alternative education program in a similar program in the county to which
the student moves. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 37.011, Education Code, to provide that a
student is reported as if the student were enrolled in a certain school
district after completion of the juvenile justice alternative education
program, if the student is reassigned from one juvenile justice
alternative program to another under Subsection (k).  Authorizes a
juvenile court to request the juvenile justice alternative education
program in the county to which the student moves to provide certain
educational services, if a student who is ordered to attend a juvenile
justice alternative education program moves from one county to another. 

SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 1997.

SECTION 3. Emergency clause.
  Effective date: upon passage.