By Bivins S.B. No. 136
75R2545 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to placement of a student who is expelled from public
1-3 school in a juvenile justice alternative education program.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 37.011(b), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) If a student is expelled from school under [found to
1-8 have engaged in conduct described by] Section 37.007 [and the
1-9 student is found by a juvenile court to have engaged in delinquent
1-10 conduct under Title 3, Family Code], the juvenile court shall:
1-11 (1) require the juvenile justice alternative education
1-12 program in the county in which the conduct occurred to provide
1-13 educational services to the student; and
1-14 (2) order the student to attend the program from the
1-15 date of adjudication.
1-16 SECTION 2. Section 54.03(g), Family Code, is amended to read
1-17 as follows:
1-18 (g) Except as provided by Section 37.011(b), Education Code,
1-19 if [If] the court or jury finds that the child did not engage in
1-20 delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision,
1-21 the court shall dismiss the case with prejudice.
1-22 SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply
1-23 beginning with the 1997-1998 school year.
1-24 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.