By Bivins S.B. No. 139
75R1476 SAW-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to curriculum requirements for alternative education
1-3 programs and juvenile justice alternative education programs.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 37.008(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 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) provides for students' educational and behavioral
1-18 needs; [and]
1-19 (6) provides supervision and counseling; and
1-20 (7) permits students to meet the curriculum
1-21 requirements for high school graduation determined under Section
1-22 28.025(a).
1-23 SECTION 2. Section 37.011(d), Education Code, is amended to
1-24 read as follows:
2-1 (d) A juvenile justice alternative education program must
2-2 focus on English language arts, mathematics, science, history, and
2-3 self-discipline. Each program shall permit students to meet the
2-4 curriculum requirements for high school graduation determined under
2-5 Section 28.025(a), shall administer assessment instruments under
2-6 Subchapter B, Chapter 39, and shall offer a high school equivalency
2-7 program.
2-8 SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998
2-9 school year.
2-10 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-16 passage, and it is so enacted.