1-1 By: Bivins S.B. No. 226 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 22, 1999; January 28, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education; 1-4 February 18, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 1-5 6, Nays 0; February 18, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the transfer of and funding for public school students 1-9 who are the victims of certain criminal offenses. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 37, Education Code, is 1-12 amended by adding Section 37.0071 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 37.0071. TRANSFER OF AND FUNDING FOR VICTIMS. (a) On 1-14 the request of a parent or other person with authority to act on 1-15 behalf of a student who was the victim of conduct described by 1-16 Section 37.007(a)(2), the board of trustees of the school district 1-17 shall, to the extent practicable, ensure that the victim and the 1-18 student who engaged in the conduct are not assigned to the same 1-19 campus, transportation route, or extracurricular program. The 1-20 decision of the board of trustees as to the practicability of 1-21 reassigning a student is final and may not be appealed. This 1-22 subsection applies regardless of where the offense occurred. 1-23 (b) If the board of trustees determines that it is not 1-24 practicable for the victim and the student who engaged in the 1-25 conduct to be assigned to separate campuses, routes, and programs, 1-26 a district to which the victim transfers under Section 25.036 is 1-27 entitled to additional funding as follows for that school year and 1-28 for each succeeding school year that the victim and the student who 1-29 engaged in the conduct would be assigned to the same campus in the 1-30 victim's former district: 1-31 (1) an allotment under Section 42.157(a), as if the 1-32 student were using a public education grant to attend school in the 1-33 district; and 1-34 (2) a payment from the district from which the student 1-35 transferred in an amount computed in the manner provided under 1-36 Section 37.0061 for computing the amount of the funds transferred 1-37 to a district providing educational services. 1-38 (c) Payments to a district under Subsection (b) shall be 1-39 prorated based on the portion of the school year a student attends 1-40 school in the district under this section. 1-41 (d) Notwithstanding Section 25.038, a district that receives 1-42 funding under this section may not charge a tuition fee. 1-43 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000 1-44 school year. 1-45 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-46 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-47 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-48 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-49 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-50 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-51 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-52 * * * * *