By Smith                                              H.B. No. 3146
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the placement of students with disabilities.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 37.004, Chapter 37 of the Texas Education
 1-5     Code is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 37.004.  The placement of a student with a disability
 1-7     who receives special education services may be made only by a duly
 1-8     constituted admission, review, and dismissal committee.  A student
 1-9     with a disability who receives special education services may not
1-10     be placed in alternative education programs solely for educational
1-11     purposes [if the student does not also meet the criteria for
1-12     alternative placement in Section 37.006(a) or 37.007(a)].
1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.