By Zbranek                                            H.B. No. 2607
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                                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.