SRC-MWN C.S.S.B. 189 77(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research CenterC.S.S.B. 189
77R6076 KKA-FBy: Lindsay
Education
2/15/2001
Committee Report (Substituted)


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Currently, juvenile justice alternative education programs (JJAEP) are
required to have a 180-day operating period, so they cannot operate
according to the same calender year as that used by the school districts of
their own service areas. The result is lower attendance than would be the
case if both programs were operating in parallel. As proposed, C.S.S.B. 189
allows a JJAEP to apply for a waiver of the 180day requirement. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a
state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 37.011(f), Education Code, to authorize a
juvenile justice alternative education program to apply to the Texas
Juvenile Probation Commission (commission) for a waiver of the 180-day
requirement. Prohibits the commission from granting a waiver to a program
under this subsection for a number of days that exceeds the highest number
of instructional days waived by the commissioner during the same school
year for a school district served by the program. 

SECTION 2.  Makes this Act applicable beginning with the 2001-2002 school
year. 

SECTION 3.  Effective date:  upon passage or September 1, 2001.
  

SUMMARY OF COMMITTEE CHANGES

SECTION 1. Amends As Filed S.B. 189, Section 37.011(f), Education Code, as
follows: 

 _Replaces applying with the commissioner of education with for a waiver
with applying to the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission. 

 _Deletes previous new language regarding a school district seeking a
waiver with prohibiting the commission from granting a waiver for a certain
number of days.