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.