By Gutierrez H.B. No. 2205 77R7838 CAS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to attendance at juvenile justice alternative education 1-3 programs. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 37.011(b), Education Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (b) A student, other than a student under the jurisdiction 1-8 of a juvenile court, who is required to attend school under Section 1-9 25.085 and is expelled from school under Section 37.007(a), (d), or 1-10 (e), shall, until the end of the term of the expulsion or until the 1-11 date the student is no longer required to attend school under 1-12 Section 25.085, whichever is earlier, attend the juvenile justice 1-13 alternative education program in the county in which the student 1-14 resides. If a student who is expelled from school under Section 1-15 37.007(a), (d), or (e) is under the jurisdiction of the juvenile 1-16 court, the juvenile court shall: 1-17 (1) if the student is placed on probation under 1-18 Section 54.04, Family Code, order the student to attend the 1-19 juvenile justice alternative education program in the county in 1-20 which the student resides from the date of disposition as a 1-21 condition of probation, unless the child is placed in a 1-22 post-adjudication treatment facility; 1-23 (2) if the student is placed on deferred prosecution 1-24 under Section 53.03, Family Code, by the court, prosecutor, or 2-1 probation department, require the student to immediately attend the 2-2 juvenile justice alternative education program in the county in 2-3 which the student resides for a period not to exceed six months as 2-4 a condition of the deferred prosecution; and 2-5 (3) in determining the conditions of the deferred 2-6 prosecution or court-ordered probation, consider the length of the 2-7 school district's expulsion order for the student. 2-8 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2001-2002 2-9 school year. 2-10 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 2-11 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 2-12 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this 2-13 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 2-14 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.