Bill Text: TX HB3012 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the disposition of certain students to alternative education settings and the provision of educational services to students in those settings or subject to in-school or out-of-school suspension.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB3012 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3012-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3012 |
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relating to the disposition of certain students to alternative | ||
education settings and the provision of educational services to | ||
students in those settings or subject to in-school or out-of-school | ||
suspension. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 37.005, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
(e) A school district shall provide to a student during the | ||
period of the student's suspension under this section, regardless | ||
of whether the student is placed in in-school or out-of-school | ||
suspension, an alternative means of receiving all course work | ||
provided in the classes in the foundation curriculum under Section | ||
28.002(a)(1) that the student misses as a result of the suspension. | ||
The district must provide at least one option for receiving the | ||
course work that does not require the use of the Internet. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 37.011(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) If a student admitted into the public schools of a | ||
school district under Section 25.001(b) is expelled from school for | ||
conduct for which expulsion is required under Section 37.007(a), | ||
(d), or (e), or for conduct that contains the elements of the | ||
offense of terroristic threat as described by Section 22.07(c-1), | ||
(d), or (e), Penal Code, the juvenile court, the juvenile board, or | ||
the juvenile board's designee, as appropriate, shall: | ||
(1) if the student is placed on probation under | ||
Section 54.04, Family Code, order the student to attend the | ||
juvenile justice alternative education program in the county in | ||
which the student resides from the date of disposition as a | ||
condition of probation, unless the child is placed in a | ||
post-adjudication treatment facility; | ||
(2) if the student is placed on deferred prosecution | ||
under Section 53.03, Family Code, by the court, prosecutor, or | ||
probation department, require the student to immediately attend the | ||
juvenile justice alternative education program in the county in | ||
which the student resides for a period not to exceed six months as a | ||
condition of the deferred prosecution; | ||
(3) in determining the conditions of the deferred | ||
prosecution or court-ordered probation, consider the length of the | ||
school district's expulsion order for the student; and | ||
(4) provide timely educational services to the student | ||
in the juvenile justice alternative education program in the county | ||
in which the student resides, regardless of the student's age or | ||
whether the juvenile court has jurisdiction over the student. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
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, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3012 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
2019, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 3, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 3012 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 7, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3012 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |