By Solis of Cameron H.B. No. 3732
76R2994 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to reporting to juvenile courts the placement of public
1-3 school students in alternative education programs.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 37.010(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, not
1-8 [Not] later than the second business day after the date a hearing
1-9 is held under Section 37.009, the board of trustees of a school
1-10 district or the board's designee shall deliver a copy of the order
1-11 placing a student in an alternative education program under Section
1-12 37.006 or expelling a student under Section 37.007 and any
1-13 information required under Section 52.04, Family Code, to the
1-14 authorized officer of the juvenile court in the county in which the
1-15 student resides. The board or the board's designee may not deliver
1-16 to the authorized officer of the juvenile court a copy of the order
1-17 placing a student in an alternative education program if the
1-18 placement is made under Section 37.002(c). In a county that
1-19 operates a program under Section 37.011, an expelled student shall
1-20 to the extent provided by law or by the memorandum of understanding
1-21 immediately attend the educational program from the date of
1-22 expulsion; provided, however, that in a county with a population
1-23 greater than 125,000 every expelled student who is not detained or
1-24 receiving treatment under an order of the juvenile court must be
2-1 enrolled in an educational program.
2-2 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
2-3 school year.
2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.