By Solis of Cameron                                   H.B. No. 3732
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                                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.