By: Lindsay S.B. No. 189
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the authority of a juvenile justice alternative
1-3 education program to obtain a waiver regarding required days of
1-4 operation.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Subsection (f), Section 37.011, Education Code,
1-7 is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (f) A juvenile justice alternative education program must
1-9 operate at least[:]
1-10 [(1)] seven hours per day[;] and
1-11 [(2)] 180 days per year, except that a program may
1-12 apply to the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission for a waiver of
1-13 the 180-day requirement. The commission may not grant a waiver to
1-14 a program under this subsection for a number of days that exceeds
1-15 the highest number of instructional days waived by the commissioner
1-16 during the same school year for a school district served by the
1-17 program.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2001-2002
1-19 school year.
1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-21 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-22 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
1-23 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-24 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.