By Olivo H.B. No. 1820
76R5695 CAS-D
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 Section 37.008(m), Education Code, is repealed.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.