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Amend CSHB 3689 (Senate committee printing) as follows:
(1) In the recital to SECTION 3.012 of the bill (page 12,
line 7), strike "Sections 141.057 and 141.058" and substitute
"Sections 141.057, 141.058, and 141.059".
(2) In SECTION 3.012 of the bill (page 12, between lines 30
and 31), insert:
Sec. 141.059. RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FACILITY. (a) The
commission may contract with a local mental health and mental
retardation authority that, on April 1, 2009, had an unutilized or
underutilized residential treatment facility, for the
establishment of a residential treatment facility for juveniles
with mental illness or emotional injury who, as a condition of
juvenile probation, are ordered by a court to reside at the facility
and receive education services at the facility. The commission may
work in cooperation with the local mental health and mental
retardation authority to provide mental health residential
treatment services for juveniles residing at a facility established
under this section.
(b) A residential treatment facility established under this
section must provide juveniles receiving treatment at the facility:
(1) a short-term program of mental health
stabilization that does not exceed 150 days in duration; and
(2) all educational opportunities and services,
including special education instruction and related services, that
a school district is required under state or federal law to provide
for students residing in the district through a charter school
operated in accordance with and subject to Subchapter D, Chapter
12, Education Code.
(c) If a residential treatment facility established under
this section is unable to provide adequate and sufficient
educational opportunities and services to juveniles residing at the
facility, the facility may not continue to operate beyond the end of
the school year in which the opportunities or services provided by
the facility are determined to be inadequate or insufficient.
(d) Notwithstanding any other law and in addition to the
number of charters allowed under Subchapter D, Chapter 12,
Education Code, the State Board of Education shall grant a charter
on the application of a residential treatment facility established
under this section for a school chartered for the purposes of this
section.
(3) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to
ARTICLE 4 of the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of that
ARTICLE accordingly:
SECTION 4.___. Section 29.012, Education Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
(e) This section does not apply to a residential treatment
facility for juveniles established under Section 141.059, Human
Resources Code.
(4) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to
ARTICLE 5 of the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of that
ARTICLE accordingly:
SECTION 5.___. Section 141.059, Human Resources Code, as
added by this Act, and Section 29.012, Education Code, as amended by
this Act, apply beginning with the 2009-2010 school year.