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.