88R19266 TSS-F
 
  By: King of Hemphill, Leo-Wilson, Noble H.B. No. 2946
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the required number of minutes of instructional time to
  be provided by a juvenile justice alternative education program.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 37.011(f), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (f)  A juvenile justice alternative education program must
  provide [operate] at least 43,200 minutes of instructional time
  [seven hours per day and 180 days] per year, except that a program
  may apply to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department for a waiver of
  the instructional time [180-day] requirement.  The department may
  not grant a waiver to a program under this subsection for a number
  of minutes [days] that exceeds the highest number of instructional
  minutes [days] waived by the commissioner during the same school
  year for any [a] school district served by the program.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
  school year.
         SECTION 3.  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, 2023.