1-1 By: Lindsay S.B. No. 189
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 3, 2001; January 11, 2001,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
1-4 February 19, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0;
1-6 February 19, 2001, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 189 By: Zaffirini
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the authority of a juvenile justice alternative
1-11 education program to obtain a waiver regarding required days of
1-12 operation.
1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-14 SECTION 1. Subsection (f), Section 37.011, Education Code,
1-15 is amended to read as follows:
1-16 (f) A juvenile justice alternative education program must
1-17 operate at least[:]
1-18 [(1)] seven hours per day[;] and
1-19 [(2)] 180 days per year, except that a program may
1-20 apply to the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission for a waiver of
1-21 the 180-day requirement. The commission may not grant a waiver to
1-22 a program under this subsection for a number of days that exceeds
1-23 the highest number of instructional days waived by the commissioner
1-24 during the same school year for a school district served by the
1-25 program.
1-26 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2001-2002
1-27 school year.
1-28 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-29 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-30 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
1-31 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-32 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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