By Turner of Harris                             H.B. No. 2329

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to certain requirements applicable to juvenile justice

 1-3     alternative education programs.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Sections 37.011(d) and (e), Education Code, are

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (d)  A juvenile justice alternative education program must

 1-8     provide instruction in the curriculum required under Section 28.002

 1-9     and focus on [English language arts, mathematics, science, history,

1-10     and] self-discipline.  Each program shall administer assessment

1-11     instruments under Subchapter B, Chapter 39, and shall offer a high

1-12     school equivalency program.

1-13           (e)  A juvenile justice alternative education program may be

1-14     provided in a facility owned by a school district.  A school

1-15     district may provide personnel and services for a juvenile justice

1-16     alternative education program under a contract with the juvenile

1-17     board.  Chapters 21 and 22 apply in the case of personnel a school

1-18     district provides under a contract under this subsection.

1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998

1-20     school year.

1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

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

 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.