1-1           By:  Nelson                                      S.B. No. 410

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 31, 1997; February 5, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Education;

 1-4     March 4, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 4, 1997,

 1-6     sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 410                   By:  Sibley

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to certain students expelled from public school or placed

1-11     in an alternative education program.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Subsection (g), Section 37.010, Education Code,

1-14     is amended to read as follows:

1-15           (g)  If an expelled student enrolls in another school

1-16     district, the board of trustees of the district that expelled the

1-17     student shall provide to the district in which the student enrolls,

1-18     at the same time other records of the student are provided, a copy

1-19     of the expulsion order and the referral to the authorized officer

1-20     of the juvenile court.  The district in which the student enrolls

1-21     may continue the expulsion under the terms of the order, may place

1-22     the student in an alternative education program for the period

1-23     specified by the expulsion order, or may allow the student to

1-24     attend regular classes without completing the period of expulsion.

1-25           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-28     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-29     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-30     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-31     passage, and it is so enacted.

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