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Amend HB 171 (Senate committee printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering 
subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Sections 37.008(a) and (l), 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)  provides structured courses in [focuses on] 
English language arts, mathematics, science, history, and 
self-discipline that are equivalent in content and rigor to courses 
in those subjects as provided in the regular classroom setting;
		(5)  provides for students' educational and behavioral 
needs;               
		(6)  provides supervision and counseling;                                     
		(7)  employs only teachers who 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); and
		(9)  provides an established curriculum for each grade 
level that provides students an opportunity to achieve promotion to 
the next grade level or to graduate from high school on the same 
schedule as students in the regular classroom setting.
	(l)  A school district is required to provide in the 
district's disciplinary alternative education program a course 
necessary to fulfill a student's high school graduation 
requirements [only as provided by this subsection].  A school 
district shall offer a student removed to a disciplinary 
alternative education program an opportunity to complete 
coursework before the beginning of the next school year.  The school 
district may provide the student an opportunity to complete 
coursework through any method available, including a 
correspondence course, distance learning, or summer school.  The 
district may not charge the student for a course provided under this 
subsection.