By: Nelson S.B. No. 1654 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to certain students expelled from public school or ordered 1-2 to attend a juvenile justice alternative education program. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 37.011, Education Code, is amended by 1-5 amending Subsection (h) and adding Subsection (k) to read as 1-6 follows: 1-7 (h) For purposes of accountability under Chapter 39 and the 1-8 Foundation School Program, a student enrolled in a juvenile justice 1-9 alternative education program is reported as if the student were 1-10 enrolled at the student's assigned campus in the student's 1-11 regularly assigned education program, including a special education 1-12 program. If the student is reassigned from one juvenile justice 1-13 alternative education program to another under Subsection (k), the 1-14 student is reported as if the student were enrolled in the school 1-15 district in which the student is entitled to attend school at the 1-16 campus to which the student is eligible to be assigned after 1-17 completion of the juvenile justice alternative education program. 1-18 (k) If a student who is ordered to attend a juvenile justice 1-19 alternative education program moves from one county to another, the 1-20 juvenile court may request the juvenile justice alternative 1-21 education program in the county to which the student moves to 1-22 provide educational services to the student in accordance with the 1-23 local memorandum of understanding between the school district and 2-1 juvenile board in the receiving county. 2-2 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.