By Olivo                                              H.B. No. 1820
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to certain requirements that apply to alternative
 1-3     education programs provided by school districts.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 37.008(c), Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  Chapter 39 applies to each [An off-campus] alternative
 1-8     education program provided under this section  [is not subject to a
 1-9     requirement imposed by this title, other than a limitation on
1-10     liability, a reporting requirement, or a requirement imposed by
1-11     this chapter or by Chapter 39].
1-12           SECTION 2.  Section 37.008(m), Education Code, is repealed.
1-13           SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
1-14     school year.
1-15           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.