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.