By: Bivins S.B. No. 226 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the transfer of and funding for public school students 1-2 who are the victims of certain criminal offenses. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 37, Education Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 37.0071 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 37.0071. TRANSFER OF AND FUNDING FOR VICTIMS. (a) On 1-7 the request of a parent or other person with authority to act on 1-8 behalf of a student who was the victim of conduct described by 1-9 Section 37.007(a)(2), the board of trustees of the school district 1-10 shall, to the extent practicable, ensure that the victim and the 1-11 student who engaged in the conduct are not assigned to the same 1-12 campus, transportation route, or extracurricular program. The 1-13 decision of the board of trustees as to the practicability of 1-14 reassigning a student is final and may not be appealed. This 1-15 subsection applies regardless of where the offense occurred. 1-16 (b) If the board of trustees determines that it is not 1-17 practicable for the victim and the student who engaged in the 1-18 conduct to be assigned to separate campuses, routes, and programs, 1-19 a district to which the victim transfers under Section 25.036 is 1-20 entitled to additional funding as follows for that school year and 1-21 for each succeeding school year that the victim and the student who 1-22 engaged in the conduct would be assigned to the same campus in the 1-23 victim's former district: 1-24 (1) an allotment under Section 42.157(a), as if the 2-1 student were using a public education grant to attend school in the 2-2 district; and 2-3 (2) a payment from the district from which the student 2-4 transferred in an amount computed in the manner provided under 2-5 Section 37.0061 for computing the amount of the funds transferred 2-6 to a district providing educational services. 2-7 (c) Payments to a district under Subsection (b) shall be 2-8 prorated based on the portion of the school year a student attends 2-9 school in the district under this section. 2-10 (d) Notwithstanding Section 25.038, a district that receives 2-11 funding under this section may not charge a tuition fee. 2-12 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 2-13 school year. 2-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-20 passage, and it is so enacted.