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.

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