By Zbranek H.B. No. 2607 76R1989 KKA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to educational services for certain children incarcerated 1-3 in private juvenile detention facilities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 25, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 25.0011 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 25.0011. CERTAIN INCARCERATED CHILDREN. (a) For 1-8 purposes of Section 25.001, a person is not considered to reside in 1-9 a school district if: 1-10 (1) the person is incarcerated in a private juvenile 1-11 detention facility in the district as a result of the order of a 1-12 court in another state; and 1-13 (2) the person resided in another state immediately 1-14 before incarceration in the facility. 1-15 (b) A school district may provide educational services to a 1-16 person described by Subsection (a) if the district is fully 1-17 compensated for the cost of the services through: 1-18 (1) tuition paid by the person; or 1-19 (2) payment from the operator of the juvenile 1-20 detention facility or other person having lawful control of the 1-21 person. 1-22 (c) For purposes of this section, "private juvenile 1-23 detention facility" means a juvenile detention facility that is not 1-24 operated by a governmental entity. 2-1 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 2-2 school year. 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.