By: West S.B. No. 1360 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the financing of alternative education programs. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 42, Education Code, is 1-4 amended by adding Section 42.157 to read as follows: 1-5 Sec. 42.157 ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM ALLOTMENTS. 1-6 (a) For each full-time equivalent student in average daily 1-7 attendance in an alternative education program under Subchapter A, 1-8 Chapter 37, a district is entitled to an annual allotment equal to 1-9 the adjusted basic allotment multiplied by a weight as follows: 1-10 District Alternative Education Program 1.5 1-11 Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program 2.0 1-12 (b) Funds allocated under this section, other than an 1-13 indirect cost allotment established under State Board of Education 1-14 rule must be used in providing alternative education programs under 1-15 Subchapter A, Chapter 37, and must be accounted for under existing 1-16 agency reporting and auditing procedures. 1-17 (c) The commissioner of education, by rule, shall prescribe 1-18 the qualifications for programs necessary to meet funding under 1-19 this section. 1-20 (d) In this section, "full-time equivalent student" means 30 1-21 hours of contact a week between a student and alternative education 2-1 program personnel. 2-2 (e) For the 1997 and 1998 school years, funds allocated 2-3 under the provisions of this Act shall not exceed this amount, the 2-4 Commissioner of Education shall adopt appropriate procedures to 2-5 reduce entitlements. 2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.