1-1 By: Nelson S.B. No. 1654 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 10, 1997, 1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; 1-5 April 10, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to certain students expelled from public school or ordered 1-9 to attend a juvenile justice alternative education program. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 37.011, Education Code, is amended by 1-12 amending Subsection (h) and adding Subsection (k) to read as 1-13 follows: 1-14 (h) For purposes of accountability under Chapter 39 and the 1-15 Foundation School Program, a student enrolled in a juvenile justice 1-16 alternative education program is reported as if the student were 1-17 enrolled at the student's assigned campus in the student's 1-18 regularly assigned education program, including a special education 1-19 program. If the student is reassigned from one juvenile justice 1-20 alternative education program to another under Subsection (k), the 1-21 student is reported as if the student were enrolled in the school 1-22 district in which the student is entitled to attend school at the 1-23 campus to which the student is eligible to be assigned after 1-24 completion of the juvenile justice alternative education program. 1-25 (k) If a student who is ordered to attend a juvenile justice 1-26 alternative education program moves from one county to another, the 1-27 juvenile court may request the juvenile justice alternative 1-28 education program in the county to which the student moves to 1-29 provide educational services to the student in accordance with the 1-30 local memorandum of understanding between the school district and 1-31 juvenile board in the receiving county. 1-32 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-33 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-38 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-39 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-40 * * * * *