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. 1-32 * * * * *