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	Amend HB 1675 by striking all below the enacting clause and 
substituting the following:
	SECTION 1.  Section 29.081(e), Education Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
	(e)  A school district may use a private or public 
community-based dropout recovery education program to provide 
alternative education programs for students at risk of dropping out 
of school.  The programs must:
		(1)  provide not less than the minimum amount [four 
hours] of instructional time per day required under Section 
25.082(a);
		(2)  employ as faculty and administrators persons with 
baccalaureate or advanced degrees who meet all certification 
requirements established under Subchapter B, Chapter 21;
		(3)  provide at least one instructor for each 28 
students;                  
		(4)  perform satisfactorily according to performance 
indicators and accountability standards adopted for alternative 
education programs by the commissioner;  and
		(5)  comply with this title and rules adopted under 
this title except as otherwise provided by this subsection.
	SECTION 2.  Sections 37.008(a) through (c), Education Code, 
are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  Each school district shall provide a disciplinary 
alternative education program that:
		(1)  is provided in a setting other than a student's 
regular classroom;     
		(2)  is located on or off of a regular school campus;                         
		(3)  provides for the students who are assigned to the 
disciplinary alternative education program to be separated from 
students who are not assigned to the program;
		(4)  focuses on English language arts, mathematics, 
science, history, and self-discipline;
		(5)  provides for students' educational and behavioral 
needs;               
		(6)  provides supervision and counseling;                                     
		(7)  employs only teachers who [requires that to teach 
in an off-campus disciplinary alternative education program, each 
teacher] meet all certification requirements established under 
Subchapter B, Chapter 21; and
		(8)  provides not less than the minimum amount of 
instructional time per day required by Section 25.082(a) 
[notwithstanding Subdivision (7), requires that to teach in a 
disciplinary alternative education program of any kind, each 
teacher employed by a school district during the 2003-2004 school 
year or an earlier school year meet, not later than the beginning of 
the 2005-2006 school year, all certification requirements 
established under Subchapter B, Chapter 21].
	(b)  A disciplinary alternative education program may 
provide for a student's transfer to:
		(1)  a different campus;                                                      
		(2)  a school-community guidance center under 
Subchapter B; or       
		(3)  a community-based alternative school, including a 
community-based dropout recovery education program under Section 
29.081(e).
	(c)  An off-campus disciplinary alternative education 
program, including a school-community guidance center, a 
community-based alternative school, or a community-based dropout 
recovery education program, is not subject to a requirement imposed 
by this title, other than:
		(1)  a limitation on liability;                                 
		(2)  [,] a reporting requirement;              
		(3)  [, or] a requirement imposed by this chapter or by 
Chapter 39; or
		(4)  any other requirement imposed by this title that 
applies to an on-campus disciplinary alternative education 
program.
	SECTION 3.  Sections 29.081(e) and 37.008, Education Code, 
as amended by this Act, apply beginning with the 2007-2008 school 
year.
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2007.