By Turner of Harris H.B. No. 2330
75R4500 KKA-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to requirements applicable to alternative education
1-3 programs.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 37.008(a) and (c), Education Code, are
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) Each school district shall provide an alternative
1-8 education program that:
1-9 (1) is provided in a setting other than a student's
1-10 regular classroom;
1-11 (2) is located on or off of a regular school campus;
1-12 (3) provides for the students who are assigned to the
1-13 alternative education program to be separated from students who are
1-14 not assigned to the program;
1-15 (4) focuses on [English language arts, mathematics,
1-16 science, history, and] self-discipline;
1-17 (5) instructs students in the curriculum required
1-18 under Section 28.002;
1-19 (6) provides for students' educational and behavioral
1-20 needs; and
1-21 (7) [(6)] provides supervision and counseling.
1-22 (c) An off-campus alternative education program is not
1-23 subject to a requirement imposed by this title, other than a
1-24 limitation on liability, a reporting requirement, or a requirement
2-1 imposed by this chapter or by Chapter 21, 22, or 39.
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.