By Culberson                                     H.B. No. 553

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to funding of educational services provided by certain

 1-3     juvenile justice programs.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 37, Education Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 37.0121 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 37.0121.  FUNDING OF OTHER JUVENILE JUSTICE PROGRAMS

 1-8     PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL SERVICES.  (a)  If a student is placed in a

 1-9     juvenile justice program that provides educational services other

1-10     than a program under Section 37.011:

1-11                 (1)  for Foundation School Program purposes, the

1-12     student is reported as if the student were enrolled at the

1-13     student's assigned campus in the student's regularly assigned

1-14     education program, including a special education program; and

1-15                 (2)  the school district in which the student is

1-16     enrolled on the date a juvenile court orders the student to be

1-17     placed in the juvenile justice program shall transfer to the public

1-18     entity that provides educational services to the student in the

1-19     program, for the portion of the school year for which the entity

1-20     provides educational services, funds equal to the district's

1-21     average per student expenditure in alternative education programs

1-22     under Section 37.008.

1-23           (b)  In this section, "juvenile justice program" includes a

1-24     youth boot camp program under Subchapter H, Chapter 61, Human

 2-1     Resources Code.

 2-2           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998

 2-3     school year.

 2-4           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-10     passage, and it is so enacted.