From the ECS State Policy Database Special Populations--Corrections Education

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State Status/Date Level Summary OH Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Repeals provision that if an educational service center governing board acquired, leased, purchased, or entered into a contract to purchase, lease, or sell office or classroom space, the board of county commissioners has no obligation to provide and equip offices and to provide heat, light, water, and janitorial services for the use of the service center absent a contract set forth in section 3319.19. Repeals section 3319.19, "Offices of educational service center superintendent and governing board." Repeals a provision that required any agreement for provision of services between a local board and the governing board of an educational service center to be filed with the department by the first day of the school year for which the agreement was in effect. Adds new provision permitting an educational service center contracting with a juvenile facility or detention facility to provide educational services to a child in the custody of the facility to submit its request for payment for services directly to the district responsible for bearing the cost of educating the child. Requires the district paying a service center for such services to include the child in the district's average daily membership. Prohibits any other district from including the child in its average daily membership. Pages 76-78, 106-107 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf Title: S.B. 316 - Educational Service Centers Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us AZ Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Requires Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections (ADJC) to assign each committed youth to an appropriate educational program in a secure care facility or other placement based on their individual treatment plan; Requires the ADJC to designate and assign each youth placed on conditional liberty to an educational program; Allows the director of the ADJC to assign a youth placed on conditional liberty to a specific public or private educational program if it is in the best interests of the youth and the community. http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/2r/laws/0354.pdf Title: S.B. 1037 Source: azleg.gov VT Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Requires appointment of a Director of Corrections Education (rather than education supervisor) who is licensed as an administrator to serve as the superintendent of the Community High School of Vermont. Requires provision of a minimum course of study that includes special education for anyone under the age of 23 who has not yet received a high school diploma, and who is in the custody of the Commissioner of Corrections. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/ Title: H.B. 613 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/ FL Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Calcifies the amount of state and local funding to which juvenile justice education programs are entitled. Pages 18-20 of 41: http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5101er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5101&Session=2012 Title: H.B. 5101 - Funding for Juvenile Justice Education Programs Source: myfloridahouse.gov UT Signed into law 03/2012 pre-K-12 From bill summary: Removes the state board of regents' responsibility for the education of persons in the custody of the Utah Department of Corrections. Directs the state office of education and Utah Department of Corrections to collaborate with the state board of regents and other entities in preparing and implementing a recidivism reduction plan. Requires the Utah Department of Corrections to report by July 1, 2014, and every three years thereafter, on the impact of corrections education programs on recidivism. http://le.utah.gov/~2012/bills/hbillenr/hb0012.pdf Title: H.B. 12 Source: le.utah.gov UT Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 From bill summary: Modifies the repeal date of Section 53A-1-403.5, which provides for certain educational programs for persons in custody of the Utah Department of Corrections, contracting for those services, a recidivism reduction plan, and which requires collaboration among certain state agencies in relation to the programs, from July 1, 2012 to July 1, 2017. http://le.utah.gov/~2012/bills/hbillenr/hb0289.pdf Title: H.B. 289 Source: le.utah.gov TX Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Requires that a district located in a county with a population of 125,000 or less provide educational services to a student who is expelled from school. Permits the district to count the student in its average daily membership. Defines what may be considered an educational placement under these provisions, including among others a contracted placement with an institution of higher education, an adult literacy council, or a community organization that can provide an educational program that allows the student to complete the credits required for high school graduation. Provides that an educational placement other than a district's disciplinary alternative education program is subject to the educational and certification requirements applicable to an open-enrollment charter school. From bill summary: exempts a county that meets certain criteria, including having a juvenile justice alternative education program (JJAEP) serving fewer than 15 students, from certain JJAEP requirements. Bill text: pages 223-224 of 263: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/821/billtext/pdf/SB00001F.pdf#navpanes=0 Bill summary (see article 70): http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/BillSummary.aspx?LegSess=821&Bill=SB1 Title: S.B. 1 Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 From fiscal note: Exempts a county with a population of 125,000 or greater from the requirement that expelled students and students meeting other mandatory placement requirements be placed in a Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (JJAEP). The parameters stipulated in the bill appear to identify Ellis County. Bill text: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB00592F.pdf#navpanes=0 Fiscal note: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/fiscalnotes/pdf/HB00592F.pdf#navpanes=0 Title: H.B. 592 Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Requires a student who receives deferred prosecution for, is found by a court or jury to have engaged in, or a superintendent or designee has a reasonable belief that a student has engaged in aggravated robbery to be removed from class and placed in a disciplinary alternative education program. Permits a student to be placed in a disciplinary alternative education program if the superintendent or designee has a reasonable belief that the student has engaged in aggravated robbery. Permits a district to expel a student who has received deferred prosecution for or has been found by a court or jury to have engaged in, has been arrested for or charged with, has been referred to a juvenile court for allegedly engaging in, or has received probation or deferred adjudication for aggravated robbery. Clarifies provision allowing expulsion of a student in a disciplinary alternative education program. Specifies that misconduct must be documented and while on the program campus despite documented behavioral interventions. Defines "serious misbehavior" for purposes of this provision. Provides that each school district in a county with a population over 125,000 and the county juvenile board must annually enter into a joint memorandum of understanding that a student may be placed in the juvenile justice alternative education program if the student engages in serious misbehavior, as defined in statute. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB00968F.pdf#navpanes=0 Title: H.B. 968 Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us OR Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Allows educational programs under Youth Corrections Education Program (YCEP) and Juvenile Detention Education Program (JDEP) to award high school diplomas and alternative certificates; implement assessment system; administer national assessment; participate in the Oregon Teacher Corps program; and participate in other programs under Oregon Educational Act for the 21st Century. Declares emergency, effective July1, 2011. http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measures/sb0001.dir/sb0022.en.html Title: S.B. 22 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us TX Became law without governor's signature 05/2011 P-12 Establishes the Interagency Council for Addressing Disproportionality to: (1) Examine the level of disproportionate involvement of children who are racial/ethnic minorities at each stage in the juvenile justice, child welfare and mental health systems; (2) Examine issues relating to the disproportionate delivery of various educational services to children who are racial/ethnic minorities in the education system; (3) make recommendations to reduce the involvement of children who are racial/ethnic minorities in the juvenile justice, child welfare and mental health systems and improve the children's success in the education system; and (4) Assist the Health and Human Services Commission in eliminating health and health access disparities in Texas among racial, multicultural, disadvantaged, ethnic and regional populations. Establishes the composition of the council and requires the council to meet at least quarterly. Sets forth the duties of the council, including reviewing current best practice standards addressing the disproportionate use of children's services by children who are members of a racial or ethnic minority group. Directs the council by December 2012 to prepare a report with the council's findings and recommendations for addressing the disproportionate representation of children who are racial/ethnic minorities in the use of children's services and the council's recommendation as to whether to continue the council. Provides these provisions expire December 1, 2013. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/SB00501F.pdf#navpanes=0 Title: S.B. 501 Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us MD Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Establishes the Task Force to Study High School Dropout Rates of Persons in the Criminal Justice System. Requires the task force to study high school dropout statistics of specified persons in the criminal justice system, obtain specified data, and make recommendations in a report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2012. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/chapters_noln/Ch_286_sb0755T.pdf Title: S.B. 755 Source: http://mlis.state.md.us AZ Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Designates the definition of home school district for students who are wards of the state and enrolled in accommodation school at a juvenile detention center. http://www.azleg.gov/legtest/50leg/1r/bills/sb1256s.pdf Title: S.B. 1256--Special Populations Source: http://www.azleg.gov MS Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Authorizes the Mississippi Department of Education to develop and promulgate policies and procedures regarding financial reimbursements to the sponsoring school district from school districts that have students of record or compulsory-school-age residing in said districts placed in a youth detention center. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2011/pdf/SB/2300-2399/SB2388SG.pdf Title: S.B. 2388 Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/ MS Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Provides criteria for districts to make a determination on an individualized basis before placing compulsory-school-age children returning from out-of-home placement in the mental health, juvenile justice or foster care system into an alternative school.out-of-home placement in the mental health, juvenile justice or foster care system. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2011/pdf/HB/1100-1199/HB1178SG.pdf Title: H.B. 1178 Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/ TX Adopted 02/2011 P-12 Establishes minimum operational, programmatic, and educational standards for juvenile justice alternative education programs. Section 348.202 provides for an annual performance evaluation, 348.204 provides for assessment reliability and safeguards, and 348.206 provides for biennial performance reports. With the exception of 348.101, adopted as published in the December 10, 2010 Texas Register (pages 118-128 of 146): http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/pdf/backview/1210/1210prop.pdf Title: 37 TAC 348.100, 101, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128, 130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 200, 202, 204, 206 Source: www.sos.state.tx.us CA Signed into law 10/2010 P-12 From bill summary: Makes a county juvenile court school eligible to receive economic impact aid funding commencing with the 2010–11 fiscal year. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1601-1650/ab_1610_bill_20101019_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 1610 - County Juvenile Court Schools Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov RI Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 Creates the Task Force on the Education of Children and Youth in the Care of the Department of Children, Youth, and Families. Directs the task force to make recommendations for:      (1) Identifying challenges to ensuring the educational stability and success of children and youth involved with DCYF from pre-K through college undergraduates, including, but not limited to:      (i) Determining when a child's and/or youth's educational placement is not in his/her best interest      (ii) Ensuring that transportation issues are addressed to assist in maintaining educational stability      (iii) Immediate transfer of student records and collaboration between schools on the provision of student information when a student needs to move schools      (iv) Ensuring the portability of student credits and graduation requirement expectations when a student's educational placement changes      (v) Identifying issues related to school residency and/or educational funding issues related to youth involved with DCYF; and      (vi) Issues related to ensuring the stability of educational placements unless they are not in the best interest of the child; and ensuring that schools and school districts collaborate in sending and obtaining the information and records necessary when a child/youth moves schools. Directs the task force to report its findings and recommendations to the general assembly by March 22, 2011. Provides the commission expires on May 31, 2011. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law10/res10/res10363.htm Title: H.R. 8109, S.R. 2872 Source: www.rilin.state.ri.us NH Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 Postsec. Requires each county correctional facility to designate one person to serve as the contact person for all matters related to special education for incarcerated inmates up to the age of 21. County correctional facilities will be monitored according to any interagency agreements established between the department of education and the county correctional facility. Granite State high school will comply with requirements for the special school district in the department of corrections. http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2010/SB0311.html Title: S.B. 311 Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us NH Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 Postsec. Establishes a committee to study education and career development programs for youth and young adults in the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems. http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2010/HB1177.html Title: H.B. 1177 Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us CO Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Concerns successful transitions back to the public school system for juveniles in out-of-home placement who have demonstrated behavior that is detrimental to the safety or welfare of themselves or others during the previous twelve months. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2010a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/2BEB050086ADA620872576A80026B96A?open&file=1274_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1274 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us CO Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Concerns the provision of educational services for juveniles against whom charges have been filed in district court; requires a school district to provide educational services during the school year to a juvenile who is held, pending trial as an adult, in a jail located within the school district; requires the school district to comply with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act if the juvenile has a disability; relates to reimbursement to districts. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2010a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/E7D30EB79557E237872576A80026B0CD?open&file=003_enr.pdf Title: S.B. 54 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us/ WI Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Postsec. Permits counties to use the monies collected from jail surcharges for costs related to educational and medical services to inmates. http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/AB-633.pdf Title: A.B. 633 Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us TN Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Requires the Commissioner of Education to include a description of short and long-term educational programs that are offered to juveniles in detention facilities and the number of juveniles served in the Commissioner's annual report. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/SB2198.pdf Title: S.B. 2198 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov KY Signed into law 04/2010 Community College Effective July 2010, requires that Kentucky Community and Technical College System faculty and staff who provide educational services and support to inmates at institutions and who choose to become employees of the department of corrections be transferred to the department of corrections, along with their associated funding. Requires all Kentucky Community and Technical College System employees providing such services to choose whether to remain in their present employment and be assigned to the department of corrections to continue providing these services, or become an employee of the department of corrections. Requires employees to make a decision by June 15, 2010, and to have access before that date to counseling by representatives of the department, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, applicable retirement systems, and the Personnel Cabinet on the effect of the transfer on that employee. Provides that all employees who do not make a decision by June 15, 2010 are deemed to have chosen to become employees of the department of corrections. Additionally requires that all Kentucky Community and Technical College System instructional supplies, equipment, funds and records associated with the provision of educational services and support to inmates at institutions be transferred to the department of corrections, along with all financial and management oversight responsibility and liability for these programs. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB164/bill.doc Title: H.B. 164 Source: www.lrc.ky.gov CO Signed into law 03/2010 Postsec. Community College Adds vocational programs to the educational programs that are offered by the department of corrections pursuant to the Correctional Education Program Act of 1990; Amends an objective of the Act to ensure that every person in a correctional facility who has an expectation of release from custody within five years receives adult basic education instruction if he or she lacks basic and functional literacy skills. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2010a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/175CD03D31D90049872576AB0059E514?open&file=1112_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1112 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us VA Signed into law 03/2010 Postsec. Community College Relates to adult students under the jurisdiction of the juvenile and domestic relations district courts. Clarifies that notification is to be given to the superintendents of school divisions when students of a certain age or older are charged with certain crimes and are subject to the jurisdiction of the juvenile and domestic relations district court. Provides for similar notification when such students are committed to a Department of Juvenile Justice facility. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB107+pdf Title: H.B. 107 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us IN Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Relates to juvenile, education, and law enforcement matters; creates the law enforcement, school policing, and youth work group to be staffed and administered by the criminal justice institute; requires the work group to study and make specific recommendations concerning law enforcement, school policing, and youth; requires the law enforcement training board to include minimum basic training on interacting with juveniles; provides that a security guard employed by a school may not carry a firearm. Public Law 74 http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2010/PDF/HE/HE1193.1.pdf Title: H.B. 1193 Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2010/PDF/HE/HE1193.1.pdf IL Adopted 11/2009 P-12 Partially from "Notice of Adopted Amendments" in Illinois Register (changes from this rulemaking but not listed below are technical in nature or echo recent changes in legislation): Section 1.20: Revised to distinguish among the appropriate levels of sign-off on the corrective plan a district must submit depending on whether a school or the district has been placed on probation. Adds a provision allowing a district's or school's status to be changed to "nonrecognized" if, at any time that a corrective action plan is in effect, the state superintendent determines that the agreed-upon actions are not being implemented in accordance with the plan or the underlying areas of noncompliance are not being remedied. Section 1.30: Updated to refer to state assessment accommodations now allowed for limited English proficient students, and now specifies when time extensions will be made available to those students (in response to P.A. 94-642, which authorized the state board to allow additional time "by rule"). Revises labels used to describe scores on the Illinois Alternate Assessment, and updates rule on review and verification of assessment information. Section 1.100: Adds details so that staff of districts and other eligible applicants will have more specific guidance as to what is expected as part of the process for receiving waivers and modifications of requirements in the school code or administrative rules. Section 1.240: Expanded to include a reference to gender identity among the prohibited bases for discrimination because it may otherwise not be clear that gender identity is encompassed in the definition of "sexual orientation". Section 1.420: Adds provision specifying that each district's plan for recording student progress and/or awarding credit must include credit for courses completed by correspondence, online or from other external sources. Specifies that a district may count four clock-hours as a day of instruction only due to a condition beyond the district's control; specifies other requirements that must be met for the state superintendent to approve a district's request to use "multiple sessions" to fulfill school day requirements. Specifies that students in attendance for at least 150 but fewer than 240 minutes of school work may be counted for a half-day of attendance; students in attendance for fewer than 150 minutes of school work are not to be counted for purposes of calculating average daily attendance. Emphasizes the meaning of the portion of the rule on library media programs that distinguishes between the services that may be performed only by certified library information specialists and the other tasks that may be inherent in districts' operation of their programs. Section 1.465 (on awarding of credit for foreign language study in an ethnic school program) and 1.480 (on correctional institution educational programs): Generally updated, including the insertion of current statutory citations. Section 1.510: Main revision conveys state board's interpretation that districts may not pick and choose among students in the same situation once they elect to transport some students. Section 1.737: Updated to complement new requirements for endorsements in safety and driver education that will take effect in 2012. Pages 324-388 of 432: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume33_issue45.pdf Title: 23 IAC 1.20, .30, .100, .240, .420, .465, .480, .510, .737 Source: www.cyberdriveillinois.com IL Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Creates the MRSA Prevention, Control, and Reporting Act to to improve the prevention of infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Establishes prevention, control, and reporting requirements for developmental centers, residential schools for the deaf and visually impaired, correctional centers, work camps or boot camps, and Department of Juvenile Justice operated juvenile centers or boot camps. Requires guidelines to include requirements for screening and surveillance, education and training, hygiene, sanitation and infection control. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB0185lv.pdf Title: H.B. 185 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OR Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Postsec. Community College Authorizes the Department of Corrections to grant a specified reduction in the term of incarceration of inmates who successfully complete educational program and obtain a high school diploma, a General Educational Development (GED) certificate, a certificate or degree from a post-secondary education institution or a journey level certification from a registered apprenticeship program. Chapter 623 http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/hb2600.dir/hb2623.en.pdf Title: H.B. 2623 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/ TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Existing policy requires a county with a population greater than 125,000 to develop a juvenile justice alternative education program. This provision adds that a county with a population greater than 125,000 is not required to develop a juvenile justice alternative education program if, with the state juvenile probation commission's approval, the county's juvenile board enters into a memorandum of understanding with each school district that outlines the responsibilities of the board and districts in minimizing the number of students expelled without receiving alternative educational services and includes specified coordination between districts and juvenile boards. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB01425F.pdf Title: H.B. 1425 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Sections 6 and 9: Beginning with the 2009-10 school year, requires each school district and each charter holder that operated an open-enrollment charter school as of January 1, 2009, to increase the monthly salary of each classroom teacher and specified non-instructional staff by a specified amount. Section 7: Specifies that districts are entitled to state aid in the amount necessary to fund salary increases required by Section 19.009(d-2). Section 8: Beginning with the 2009-10 school year, requires the Windham School District (district established by the state board of corrections) to increase the monthly salary of each classroom teacher and specified non-instructional staff by a specified amount. Pages 4-8 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf Title: H.B. 3646 - Sections 6-9 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Section 56: Creates new sections 42.159 and 42.160. Section 42.159 provides that for each student who completes a semester-long electronic course that meets a high school graduation requirement and is provided through the state virtual school network as part of a normal course load, the school district or open-enrollment charter school that provided the course is entitled to a $400 allotment, and the district or charter school in which the student is enrolled is entitled to an $80 allotment as reimbursement for associated administrative costs. Specifies that allotment for a completed state virtual school network course that exceeds a normal course load (including a course offered during the summer) must be in an amount determined by the commissioner. Authorizes the commissioner to set aside up to 50% of allotments for normal course load and exceeding course load electronic courses to pay the costs of providing state virtual school network courses allowing students to recover credits for courses in which they were previously unsuccessful. Also authorizes a portion of the set-aside to pay the costs of credit recovery courses for students in alternative education settings, including disciplinary and juvenile justice alternative education programs, and students under the supervision of a juvenile probation department, the Texas Youth Commission, or the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Bars partial funding from being awarded for any student who begins but does not complete an electronic course. Requires the commissioner to adopt rules regarding specified provisions, including the allotment of district funds for a student who transfers schools or districts after beginning an electronic course. Section 42.160 provides districts and open-enrollment charter schools an allotment of $275 for each student in average daily attendance in grades 9-12. Provides clarification on allotments for a district required to reduce its wealth per student to the equalized wealth level. Directs the commissioner to adopt rules, including rules related to the permissible use of such funds allocated to an open-enrollment charter school. NOTE: This bill also repeals Section 29.909, "Electronic Courses." Page 42-45 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf Title: H.B. 3646 - Sections 56 and 57 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Directs the investigate the feasibility of creating one or more series of courses to be provided through the state virtual school network that focus on the educational needs of students in alternative education settings, including students in disciplinary alternative education programs, in juvenile justice alternative education programs, and students under the supervision of a juvenile probation department, the Texas Youth Commission or the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Provides the series of courses to be investigated must include a series that would constitute a full-time educational program, a series that would offer only supplemental courses, and a credit recovery series. Requires the agency to submit its findings to the legislature by January 2011. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf Title: H.B. 3646 - Section 94 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 New provision defines alleged offender resident as a person with mental retardation who is charged with or convicted of a criminal offense, or a child found to have engaged in delinquent conduct constituting a criminal offense. Establishes the Mexia State Supported Living Center as the forensic state supported living center. Adds Subchapter L, "School District Program for Residents of Forensic State Supported Living Center" to Chapter 29 of the Education Code. Requires a school district to provide educational services to each alleged offender resident of the forensic state supported living center who is under the age of 22 as of September 1 and otherwise eligible to attend school in the district. Establishes procedures for the determination of an alleged offender resident's educational placement and the educational services the district must provide the resident. Provides the discipline of an alleged offender resident by a school district is subject to Sections 37.0021 and 37.004 and to federal law governing the discipline of students with disabilities. Requires a district enrolling alleged offender residents to employ one or more behavior support specialists. Establishes criteria behavior support specialists must meet. Requires a behavior support specialist to conduct a functional behavior assessment for each alleged offender resident enrolled in the district. Establishes additional responsibilities of behavior support specialists. Requires a school district in which alleged offender residents are enrolled and the forensic state supported living center to enter into a memorandum of understanding on the services to be provided to students. Establishes arbitration procedures in the event a district and the forensic state supported living center are unable to agree on the services required for residents or responsibility for those services. Provides an additional allotment for each for each alleged offender resident in average daily attendance in the district. Requires a district receiving such an allotment to annually report to the state accounting for the expenditure of funds received. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/SB00643F.pdf Title: S.B. 643 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us OK Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Community College Requires the Department of Corrections to establish a program to ensure that inmates have an opportunity to achieve at least a general educational development level of proficiency in reading, writing and computation skills (was grade 8 level in the past), to the extent resources are available. Requires that priority for placement of eligible inmates in education programs be given to inmates lacking basic literacy skills and to inmates closest to their projected release dates. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/HB/HB2047_ENR.RTF Title: H.B. 2047 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us OR Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Community College Requires the Department of Corrections to provide a discharged inmate with verification of the inmate's work history while in the custody of the department, certification of any educational programs completed by the inmate, and certification of any treatment programs completed by the inmate. Chapter 139. http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/hb2400.dir/hb2490.en.pdf Title: H.B. 2490 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us IN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Creates the board for the coordination of programs serving vulnerable individuals to coordinate the delivery of services to vulnerable individuals in need of services; requires the Superintendent of the Department of Education or designee to serve on the board. Board is to meet every two months and provide quarterly reports to the governor and the general assembly. Public Law 173 http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/PDF/HE/HE1289.1.pdf Title: H.B. 1289 - Section 1 Source: http://www.state.in.us/legislative CO Signed into law 04/2009 Postsec. Community College Requires that costs associated with a college-level academic program for an inmate shall be borne by the inmate unless he or she receives financial aid or scholarships for the program. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2009a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/884C0DCA60E427B487257546000B8384?open&file=1264_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1264 Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us KS Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Concerns a school district; in Atchison; relates to the number of pupils in the custody of the juvenile justice system and enrolled in school district 409. Chapter 2009-76 http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2010/2001.pdf Title: H.B. 2001 Source: http://www.kslegislature.org AR Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Postsec. Community College Requires the department of correction to provide skills training and educational opportunities for all inmates not serving a life sentence or a sentence for capital murder; makes attendance and completion of skills training or the reaching of educational thresholds mandatory and a condition of an inmate's release on parole. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Bills/HB1894.pdf Title: H.B. 1894 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us AR Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Requires the Division of Youth Services (DYS) to provide a system of education in residential youth services centers it operates according guidelines established by the Department of Education (DOE); requires the the DYS, with the support and assistance of the DOE, to conduct an education program assessment of each facility and provide a report of it's findings; provides that course credits and promotions received by a student enrolled in the DYS system of education shall be considered transferable. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Bills/HB1932.pdf Title: H.B. 1932 Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ GA Adopted 03/2009 P-12 Establishes guidelines for the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Treatment grant program, the Abstinence Until Marriage grant program, the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant program, and the Caring Communities grant program. Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Treatment grant program (96-1-.01): http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/96/1/01.pdf Abstinence until Marriage grant program (96-1-.04): http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/96/1/04.pdf Juvenile Accountability block grant program (96-1-.05): http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/96/1/05.pdf Caring Communities grant program (96-1-.07): http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/96/1/07.pdf Title: GAC 96-1-.01, .04, .05, .07 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Postsec. Community College Adds provision setting parameters for contracts between the department of corrections and community colleges to provide postsecondary education and training. Provides that if the community college declines to provide services or cannot meet reasonable contractual terms, postsecondary education and training may be procured through other appropriate private or public agencies. Adds section requiring an inmate participating in postsecondary education to pay 50% of tuition at the time of enrollment. Allows an inmate who has inadequate financial resources to participate in a deferred tuition payment program. Directs the department of corrections and the Office of State Debt Collection to coordinate a deferred postsecondary education tuition repayment program to provide inmates a reasonable payment schedule and payment amount. Establishes program criteria. Specifies that neither agency may relieve an offender's tuition repayment responsibility. Permits only inmates lawfully present in the U.S. to participate in the department of corrections' postsecondary educational program. Adds section requiring that any ongoing funds provided to the state board of regent's Prison Recidivism Program beginning in fiscal year 2009-10 be transferred to the Prison Telephone Surcharge Account for establishing necessary program resources and promoting and providing inmate postsecondary education. http://le.utah.gov/~2009/bills/hbillenr/hb0100.pdf Title: H.B. 100 Source: le.utah.gov ID Signed by Governor 03/2009 Community College Amends existing law relating to education to provide that the State Board for Professional-Technical Education shall prepare courses for prisoners held under the jurisdiction of the Department of Correction. Chapter 28 http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/S1018Bookmark.htm Title: S.B. 1018 Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov UT Adopted 11/2008 P-12 Updates and aligns state and federal laws and regulations pertaining to corrections education programs. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r277/r277-735.htm Title: R277-735 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Vetoed 09/2008 Postsec. Requires the open course provisions in statute or regulations of the board of governors to be waived for any governing board of a community college district that provides classes for inmates in correctional facilities, including state facilities. Authorizes the inclusion of full-time equivalent student units for purposes of state apportionments. Prohibits a community college district from claiming any class for which a district receives full compensation for its direct education costs. http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm Title: S.B. 413 Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Encourages each county superintendent of schools or school district and county chief probation officer to enter into a memorandum of understanding or an equivalent mutual agreement to support a collaborative process for meeting the needs of wards of the court who are receiving their education in juvenile court schools. Specifies various items that may be included in the memorandum of understanding or equivalent mutual agreement. Chapter 531 Title: S.B. 1638 Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Amends the School Code and the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Distinguishes funding provisions for students in residential programs who are not eligible for special education services and funding provisions for students with disabilities who are in residential programs. Provides that legislation relating to students in residential programs who are not eligible for special education services shall not be construed to relieve the student's resident district of financial responsibility based on the manner in which the student was placed at the facility. Provides that when a dispute arises over the determination of the student's district of residence, any person or entity, including a school district or residential facility, may make a written request for a residency decision to the state superintendent, who must issue his or her decision in writing. Provides that the decision of the state superintendent is final. Repeals certain provisions relating to the payment and reimbursement of costs associated with a disabled student placed in residential facilities by a public agency or court. Creates new section 105 ILCS 5/14-7.05 related to the payment of, and dispute resolution over, costs associated with a student with a disability in a residential facility placement. Provides the school district of residency is responsible for and must be reimbursed for the costs of educating the child. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB2042lv.pdf Title: S.B. 2042 Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation NH Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Revises numerous statutes relating to special education; expands, updates, and clarifies definitions; expands the duties of the Department of Education; establishes duties of correctional facilities; provides for monitoring of special education programs and authorizes corrective action; authorizes state aid for out-of-district placement; revises various provisions related to appointment of a surrogate parent, children with disabilities in state facilities, and the Medicaid to Schools Program. http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2008/HB0766.html Title: H.B. 766 Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Defines "nonoffender" as a child alleged to be dependent, neglected, or abused and who has not been otherwise charged with a status or public offense. Specifies that "status offenses" by a minor include beyond the control of the school or parents, habitual truancy and tobacco and alcohol offenses. Prohibits a nonoffender or child in violation of a statute or local ordinance pertaining to curfew from being detained in a secure juvenile detention facility or a juvenile holding facility. Allows a status offender or alleged status offender to be detained in a secure juvenile detention facility, a juvenile holding facility, or in a nonsecure setting approved by the Department of Juvenile Justice, for up to 48 hours pending the child's next court appearance. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/HB384/bill.doc Title: H.B. 384 Source: www.lrc.ky.gov GA Adopted 02/2008 P-12 Clarifies rules regarding the providing of grants to local units of administration and facilities serving eligible children, which are children who are in custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice or the Department of Human Resources. http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-5-2-.06.pdf Title: GAC 160-5-2-.06 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OR Adopted 12/2007 P-12 Allows students in youth care centers operated by public and private agencies to receive educational services. OREGON 28728 Title: OAR 581-015-2595 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Vetoed 10/2007 P-12 Community College Postsec. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish reentry programs for parolees between 16 and 23 years of age to assist in community reintegration upon discharge from detention. Provides the programs would include construction training, academic services, counseling and tracking of graduates after completion of the program. Requires the department to maintain statistical information related to the reentry program. http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_1001-1050/ab_1049_bill_20070919_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_1001-1050/ab_1049_vt_20071014.html Title: A.B. 1049 Source: http://info.sen.ca.gov IL Signed into law 08/2007 P-12 Provides that when the subject of a parole or mandatory supervised release is in compliance with all conditions of his or her parole or mandatory supervised release, the subject shall receive a reduction of the period of his or her parole or mandatory supervised release of 90 days upon passage of the high school level Test of General Educational Development (GED) during the period of his or her parole or mandatory supervised release. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/SB/PDF/09500SB1391lv.pdf Title: S.B. 1391 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NC Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 Postsec. Community College Appropriates funds for a study of the job training programs available for incarcerated inmates. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H648v0.html Title: H.B. 648 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us LA Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Authorizes the department of labor to establish or to contract with service providers or community service organizations to establish a comprehensive project return post-release skills program for recently released offenders. Establishes the goals and objectives of the program. Provides that the services offered through the program must include GED test preparation and academic enhancement. Directs the department of labor to promulgate rules to govern the program; requires such rules to provide procedures for monitoring of the program, including annual on-sit surveys. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=447952 Title: S.B. 308 Source: www.legis.state.la.us OR Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Establishes that every child at a youth care center, whether privately or publicly operated, is entitled to receive appropriate education suited to the needs of the child in the least restrictive environment in which the child can function until the child is no longer of compulsory school age or receives a high school diploma or an equivalent. http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/sb0200.dir/sb0216.en.pdf Title: S.B. 216 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us IN Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Provides that a student who is placed in a foster family home or the home of a relative or other unlicensed caretaker may attend school in either the school corporation in which the home is located or in the school corporation in which the student has legal settlement. Provides that if a student subsequently attends school in a school corporation that is not the school corporation in which the student has legal settlement, the school corporation in which the student has legal settlement must pay transfer tuition to the school corporation in which the student is enrolled in school if specific conditions apply. Includes in the definition of a homeless student a student who is awaiting placement in foster care. Authorizes the juvenile court to place a child in a public school, regardless of whether the public school has a waiting list for admissions, if the court determines that the school's program meets the child's educational needs and the school agrees to the placement. Authorizes the juvenile court to place or change the placement of a child in the home of a relative or other unlicensed caretaker. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2007/PDF/SE/SE0330.1.pdf Title: S.B. 330 Source: www.in.gov OR Signed into law 03/2007 Community College Abolishes Corrections Education Advisory Committee; requires Administrator of Correctional Education to administer adult basic skills development program rather than functional literacy program for individuals in custody of Department of Corrections. Specifies that individuals be tested for basic reading and mathematics skills or, for individuals with limited English language proficiency, English speaking skills. Specifies that the assessment be a standardized reading test approved by the National Reporting System for Adult Education of the United States Department of Education and by the Adult Basic Skills Program of the Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development; requires the provision of progress testing and certification; also requires the provision of incentives for achieving the minimum reading level and, for those individuals with demonstrated ability, provide incentives for making progress toward earning a General Educational Development (GED) certificate. Exempts certain inmates. http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/sb0100.dir/sb0189.en.pdf Title: S.B. 189 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us MS Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Requires detention center staff to notify school district officials where the detainee last attended school by the first school day following the student's placement in the facility. Amends responsibilities of youth court judges, local districts, detention center staff and private providers in providing education services to juvenile detainees. Requires transition teams to help detainees successfully transition back into the home school district once released from detention. Defines composition and duties of transition team. Requires the Legislature to annually appropriate sufficient funds for the provision of educational services to detainees in detention centers. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2007/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2818SG.htm Title: S.B. 2818 Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us VA Signed into law 03/2007 Postsec. Community College Requires the Department of Corrections to provide access to postsecondary education opportunities for incarcerated individuals via the Internet or videoconferencing technology. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+SB953ER Title: S.B. 953 Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ VA Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Allows the Board of Correctional Education to develop programs to provide restricted Internet access to online secondary education or adult education and literacy programs leading to a diploma or the General Education Development (GED) program and testing. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB3191ER Title: H.B. 3191 Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ VA Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Requires the Superintendent of the Department of Correctional Education, in cooperation with the Department of Corrections, to create a system for identifying prisoners with learning disabilities. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2625ER Title: H.B. 2625 Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ VA Signed into law 02/2007 P-12 Postsec. Community College Raises the standard for the Department of Correctional Education Literacy Program from the eighth grade level to the twelfth grade or GED level; requires the program to include a strategic plan for encouraging enrollment in college or an accredited vocational training program or other accredited continuing education program. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2627ER Title: H.B. 2627 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 02/2007 P-12 Community College Modifies the ex officio membership of the Board of Correctional Education by removing the chairman of the Virginia Parole Board and adding the Assistant Superintendent for Special Education & Student Services in the Department of Education and the Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System; allows ex officio members to designate someone to serve in their place. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2628ER Title: H.B. 2628 Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ VA Signed into law 02/2007 Postsec. Community College Empowers the Department of Corrections to develop programs for restricted Internet access to online higher education courses by incarcerated persons. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2041ER Title: H.B. 2041 Source: http://legis.state.va.us/ OK Adopted 12/2006 P-12 Requires that: (1)    Each school district in the state with a city, county, or state jail within the district's boundaries shall designate an employee or employees of the school district who will be responsible for overseeing the educational services to eligible juveniles identified by the facility. While incarcerated in a jail, the student shall be considered a resident of the school district where the jail is located. (2)    Once an employee is designated by the school district that person shall immediately contact the individual in charge of the operation of the jail or jails within the boundaries of the school district and provide them with information regarding the requirements of this rule. (3)    When a school district receives notification of the need for educational services from a facility incarcerating a juvenile, the school district shall provide the juvenile with an appropriate education plan designed for the possible reintegration of the student into school, which must include the core subjects. The education plan contemplated by this rule corresponds to the education plan referenced in the Oklahoma School Laws at 70 O.S. § 24-101.3(D) for students suspended from school. A copy of the education plan developed by the school district shall be provided to the facility and to the juvenile and a copy shall be kept on file by the school district. For purposes of this rule the core units shall consist of English, Math, Science, Social Studies, and Art units required by the State Board of Education. (4)    The education plan shall set out the procedure the school district and the facility will utilize for the provision of educational services to the juvenile and will address academic credit for work satisfactorily completed. These procedures and requirements apply to facilities which do not have in place, on the effective date of this rule, a plan for educational services of incarcerated juveniles. (5)    The provisions of residency law at 70 O.S. § 1-113 addressing responsibility for educational services to juveniles in facilities located within the boundaries of the school district prevail over the requirements set forth in this rule.Amends rules concerning school administration and instructionalservices. http://www.oar.state.ok.us/register/Volume-24_Issue-11.htm#a96770 Title: OAC 210:10-1-13 Source: http://www.oar.state.ok.us/ WV Rule Adoption 07/2006 P-12 Establishes high quality standards for juvenile institutional education programs under the governance of the West Virginia Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Schools. These standards are not applicable to education programs in juvenile detention centers. http://wvde.state.wv.us/policies/p2325.pdf Title: Title 126, Series 53 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Rule Adoption 07/2006 P-12 Provides a structured procedure for reenrollment of students into the public school system when they have been in the custody of the juvenile justice system and receiving instruction through the Department of Correctional Education. Establishes a process for the exchange of educational information concerning students among the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Department of Correctional Education and the public school divisions, with procedures, responsibilities, and timelines delineated so that reenrollment and planning for the student's continued education can take place on a timely basis prior to a student's release from the juvenile justice system. http://legis.state.va.us/codecomm/register/vol22/iss22/f8v20660.doc Title: 8 VAC 20-660-10 thru -40 Source: http://legis.state.va.us/search/reg_query.htm UT Adopted 06/2006 P-12 Provides the Utah Coordinating Council for Youth in Custody and the Utah State Office of Education the ability to reserve funds from Youth in Custody appropriations for statewide coordination of professional development, electronic educational services, data collection, site visits, and semi-annual comprehensive program review. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/bulletin/2006/20060415/28591.htm Title: R277-709 Source: www.rules.utah.gov GA Adopted 06/2006 P-12 Clarifies rules regarding grants for juvenile delinquency prevention and treatment, Title V prevention, abstinence education and juvenile accountability block grants. 96-1-.01 Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Treatment: http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/96/1/01.pdf 96-1-.02 Title V Prevention http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/96/1/02.pdf 96-1-.04 Abstinence Education http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/96/1/04.pdf 96-1-.05 Juvenile Accountability Block Grants http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/96/1/05.pdf Title: GAC 96-1-.01, .02, .04, .05 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet LA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Provides for incentive wages and work programs for juvenile defendants; provides that the office of youth developoment has control over all aspects of juvenile offender training and education; provides that juvenile offenders may be compensated for work performed during work training programs. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=397982 Title: H.B. 187 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet LA Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Provides with respect to treatment programs for inmates; encourages voluntary participation by inmates in certified treatment and rehabilitation programs, including but not limited to basic education, job skills training, values development and faith-based initiatives, therapeutic programs, and treatment programs. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=392170 Title: H.B. 377 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IL Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Eliminates the provision that the additional good conduct credit awarded to a prisoner who passes the high school level Test of General Educational Development (GED) while the prisoner is incarcerated applies only if the prisoner receives a GED certificate. Provides that the good conduct credit shall be available only to those prisoners who have not previously earned a high school diploma or a GED. Relates to early release. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/94/SB/PDF/09400SB2320lv.pdf Title: S.B. 2320 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet GA Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Changes provisions to the Quality Basic Education Act; changes certain provisions relating to eligibility of enrollment for children in the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice or the Department of Human Resources. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/pdf/sb618.pdf Title: S.B. 618 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MS Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Creates the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Act of 2006, part of the act creates a committee to determine what entity should be responsible for providing the educational services within detention centers to ensure that detained youth receive adequate educational services.  Committee to make report of its work and recommendations by October 31, 2006.  http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2006/html/HB/0100-0199/HB0199SG.htm Title: H.B. 199 Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/ VA Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Postsec. Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to provide each prisoner with certain documents upon discharge, including verification of the prisoner's work history while in custody and certification of all educational and treatment programs completed by the prisoner while in custody. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?061+ful+CHAP0108 Title: H.B. 691 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IL Signed into law 11/2005 P-12 Amends various Acts to create the Department of Juvenile Justice from the Juvenile Division of the Department of Corrections. Transfers personnel, books, records, property and appropriations. Transfers the Department of Corrections school district to the Department of Juvenile Justice. Creates a Juvenile Advisory Board. Makes other changes. Provides for an annual salary. Amends provisions regarding security employees, law enforcement officers and retirement provisions. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0696 Title: S.B. 92 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet GA Adopted 10/2005 P-12 Establishes rules regarding case management consultation for agency-placed transfer students to provide necessary transition services for students who are placed by the Department of Human Resources or the Department of Juvenile Justice in new schools. AGENCY CONTACT: Patricia L. Mills, Department of Education, 2052 Twin Towers East, Atlanta, GA 30334, 404- 656-4689, fax 404-657-8376 http://public.doe.k12.ga.us/_documents/doe/legalservices/160-4-8-.17.pdf Title: GAC 160-4-8-.17 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IL Vetoed 08/2005 P-12 Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the rules and regulations for the early release of a prisoner on account of good conduct shall also provide that an additional 60 days of good conduct credit shall be awarded to any prisoner who passes the high school level Test of General Educational Development (GED) and receives a GED certificate while the prisoner is incarcerated. Requires the Department of Corrections to develop and establish a program designed to increase the number of committed persons enrolled in programs to pass the high school level Test of General Educational Development (GED) and receive GED certificates by at least 100% over the 4-year period following the effective date of this amendatory Act. Requires each institution and facility to report annually to the Director of Corrections on the number of committed persons enrolled in GED programs and those who pass the GED and receive GED certificates, and the number of committed persons who are on waiting lists for those educational programs. Effective immediately. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=0326&GAID=8&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=15772&SessionID=50&SpecSess=&Session=&GA=94 Governor's veto message: http://dev.ecs.org/clearinghouse/63/07/6307.doc Title: S.B. 326 Source: www.ilga.gov IL Signed into law 07/2005 P-12 Provides that the rules and regulations for the early release of a prisoner on account of good conduct shall also provide that an additional 60 days of good conduct credit shall be awarded to any prisoner who earns a high school diploma or passes the high school level Test of General Educational Development (GED) and receives a GED certificate while the prisoner is incarcerated. Requries the Department of Corrections to develop and establish a program designed to increase the number of committed persons enrolled in programs to obtain a high school diploma or to pass the high school level Test of General Educational Development (GED) and receive GED certificates by at least 100% over the 4-year period following the effective date of this amendatory Act. Requires each institution and facility to report annually to the Director of Corrections on the number of committed persons enrolled in high school education programs and those who pass the high school level Test of General Educational Development (GED) and receive GED certificates, and the number of committed persons who are on waiting lists for those educational programs. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/94/PDF/094-0128.pdf Title: H.B. 611 Source: www.ilga.gov TX Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Community College Goal is to ensure that programs such as GED and ESL are integrated with an applied vocational context leading to employment. Improves coordination between partner agencies so ex-offenders receive professional certification and licensing along with educational opportunities in an applied vocational context; agencies include the Texas Youth Commission (TYC), Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), and the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) which, through Project RIO, share data seamlessly on ex-offenders and their post-release employment status; and the effectiveness of training services is evaluated and reported annually to the governor and the Legislative Budget. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=79&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&BILLTYPE=B&BILLSUFFIX=02837&VERSION=5&TYPE=B Title: H.B. 2837 Source: StateNet AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Amends the Youth Services Act and the Education law. Requires health care providers to send the division of youth services all medical and health information on a committed juvenile, including individually identifiable health information needed for the division to assume the role of caretaker for the committed juvenile, within 3 days of request. Also requires the committed juvenile's school or current educational setting to send the education record to the division of youth services within 10 school days of the division's request. Additionally requires the court to send the committed juvenile's youth services center a copy of the commitment order as well as records or information pertaining to the juvenile compiled by the intake officer or juvenile probation officer that must include: (i) Information on the juvenile's background, history, behavioral tendencies, and family status; (ii) The reasons for the juvenile's commitment; (iii) The name of the school in which the juvenile is currently or was last school enrolled; (iv) The juvenile's offense history; (v) The juvenile's placement history; (vi) A copy of all psychological or psychiatric evaluations or examinations performed on the juvenile admitted into evidence or ordered by the court while under the jurisdiction of the court or the supervision of the court staff; (vii) A comprehensive list of all current medications taken by the juvenile; and (viii) A comprehensive list of all medical treatment currently being provided to the juvenile. These records must be delivered to the division of youth services prior to or at the time the juvenile is transported to a youth services center. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1015.pdf Title: S.B. 1015 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us VA Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Places upon the Department of Correctional Education the primary duty of transferring academic, career and technical education and related achievement information to local school boards when children are returned to the community from the Department of Juvenile Justice's care. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0154 Title: H.B. 1789 Source: StateNet UT Signed into law 03/2005 Community College Creates a restricted account within the General Fund called the Prison Telephone Surcharge Account; deposits money generated from surcharges on pay telephones located at state correctional facilities into the account; specifies the money in the account may be appropriated for prison training and education programs. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2005/bills/hbillenr/hb0234.pdf Title: H.B. 234 Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/ AR Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Changes Department of Correction School District to Corrections School System. Expands students eligible for system inclusion to those on probation and parole or any type of post prison release or transfer who are not high school graduates, irrespective of age. Creates Corrections School System's chief administrative officer position and clarifies officer's role and authority. Amends language to clarify funding and responsibility of Corrections School System. Extends eligibility to attend Riverside Vocational and Technical School beyond department of corrections inmates to those incarcerated by the Department of Community Correction or to qualified persons supervised by the Department of Community Correction including those on probation and parole or any type of post-prison release or transfer. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb191.pdf Title: S.B. 191 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us FL Signed into law 12/2004 P-12 Revises apportionment of certain costs between counties and state of providing detention care for juveniles; deletes requirement requiring withholding a portion of county funds if county remits to state less than amount required; deletes provisions relating to the Juvenile Justice Department; excludes costs of preadjudicatory educational or therapeutic services. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/loadDoc.aspx?FileName=_s0004Aer.html&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0004A&Session=2004A Title: S.B. 4A Source: StateNet CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Postsec. Community College Establishes the Prison Education Reform Act. Changes the position of Superintendent of Correctional Education to the Deputy Director of Correctional Education, to report directly to the Director of Corrections. Requires deputy director to oversee and administer all prison education programs in conjunction with the Robert E. Burton Correctional Education Committee. Renames the prison education advisory committee the Robert E. Burton Correctional Education Committee, to be composed of 15 appointed members, and established within the Department of Corrections. Requires the Deputy Director of Correctional Education, in consultation with the committee to approve education programs in correctional institutions and adopt and enforce rules and regulations for the management and operation of education programs within the Department of Corrections. Requires the Deputy Director of Correctional Education, in consultation with the committee and in conjunction with parole and other aftercare programs, to develop and implement a plan for providing transitional educational services for inmates, including, but not limited to, counseling and placement services. Requires the Deputy Director of Correctional Education, in consultation with the committee, to develop a plan and make every reasonable effort to provide every inmate who has a reasonable expectation of release, with the opportunity to achieve a specified level of functional literacy, among other educational benefits, and an opportunity to obtain the equivalent of a high school education if the inmate has demonstrated the intellectual capacity to benefit from that additional education, and to provide college-level academic programs. Requires the committee to advise the Deputy Director of Correctional Education regarding specified goals and objectives, including ensuring that correctional education programs meet minimum performance standards and provide 9th grade literacy skills and marketable vocational skills, developing a procedure, in cooperation with the State Department of Education, to evaluate the effectiveness of correctional education programs, developing a mechanism to test all offenders committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections for academic achievement, and developing a 5-year comprehensive plan for a unified correctional school system. Additionally requires the committee to submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2007, with recommendations for further restructuring of correctional education in the state and focusing on, among other items, attaining parallel education structures between correctional and public education, funding sources, and correctional education curriculum. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1901-1950/ab_1914_bill_20040824_enrolled.html Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1914_veto.pdf Title: A.B. 1914 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Requires a court to take the educational needs of a minor into consideration when determining the disposition of the minor or when making any other orders related to the care and detention of the minor. Requires a probation officer's social study to include a description of a minor's educational needs and a recommendation for meeting those needs, and, whenever possible, preserving the stability of the minor's educational program. If a minor is required to attend a school program as a condition of probation, the probation officer is required to approve that program consistent with maintaining the stability of the minor's educational program and the educational needs of the minor. If a minor is detained in a secure facility, the facility is required to ensure the minor's attendance at an educational program in accordance with state law. Bill as sent to the governor: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/03-04//bill/sen/sb_0401-0450/sb_449_bill_20040826_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_449_veto.pdf Title: S.B. 449 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Requires each person who becomes subject to the Department of Corrections on or after January 1, 2006, with the exception of inmates serving a sentence of imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole or who are sentenced to death, to be evaluated with respect to his or her educational and vocational level of development and capacity and with respect to his or her psychosocial level of development and ability to lead a constructive life. Requires that a program be prescribed and implemented for the inmate, based upon these evaluations, that addresses his or her deficient levels of educational, vocational, and psychosocial development, so as to better equip him or her to lead a constructive life upon release from prison. Provides for evaluations and programs exempted persons contingent upon available funds. Also requires the Director of Corrections to make a parenting education course available to every inmate incarcerated in the state corrections system who is serving a sentence for a crime involving his or her child or a child formerly under his or her care. This bill would require the parenting course to be susceptible of completion within the sentence of the inmate, and would prohibit a reduction in the sentence for an inmate who failed to complete an available parenting course. Also provides, commencing in the 2005–06 fiscal year, for the application of these provisions, subject to the availability of funding and other specified conditions, to other inmates incarcerated in the state corrections system. Also requires the Department of the Youth Authority to make a parenting course available to wards confined by that department under similar conditions and criteria. Provides that the sole remedy available to an inmate or ward who is eligible for, but does not receive, the assessment, rehabilitation program, or education course described in these provisions shall be to file a petition for a writ of mandate to compel the department or the director to provide that assessment, rehabilitation program, or education course. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1351-1400/sb_1399_bill_20040826_enrolled.html Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/SB_1399_veto.pdf Title: S.B. 1399 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Encourages the Department of Corrections to give priority enrollment in programs, including educational programs, designated to rehabilitate nonviolent, first time offenders, to promote successful return to the community to an inmate with a short remaining term of commitment. Incorporates additional changes in Section 1170 of the Penal Code, proposed by AB 1941 and AB 1946, to become effective only if this bill and one or more of the other bills are enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2005, and this bill is enacted last. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0851-0900/ab_854_bill_20040924_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 854 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Creates the Ex-Offender Literacy Act that states the success of a pilot program requiring an adult convicted of a nonviolent or nonserious offense to participate in a program designed to assist the person obtain the equivalent of a 12th grade education as a condition of probation would be successful if at least 10% of the persons participating in the program obtain the equivalent of a 12th grade education within 3 years or improve their educational level by 3 years within 3 years. ftp://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1901-1950/ab_1901_bill_20040628_chaptered.html Title: A.B. 1901 Source: California Legislative Web site FL Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Relates to juvenile justice education; increases percentage of Florida Education Finance Program funding generated by students in juvenile justice programs which must be spent on instructional costs; requires school districts to provide GED exit option for such programs; requires workgroup to suggest strategies for meeting requirements of No Child Left Behind Act and for rewarding such programs for high performance; requires gender-specific information. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb1989er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/ Title: H.B. 1989 Source: Florida Legislative Web site FL Became law without governor's signature 05/2004 P-12 Postsec. Community College Relates to education funding; requires school districts to establish certain policies and procedures regarding lottery fund enhancements; provides tax credit cap for contributions to nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations; prohibits use of funds for lab schools for certain overhead or indirect costs; redesignates specified community colleges as colleges; specifies maximum fee waiver percentage for school districts and community colleges; authorizes use of the Dale Hickam Excellent Teaching Program funds; requires reports regarding inmate education provided by community colleges; authorizes Florida State University to construct classroom building. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb1867er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/ Title: H.B. 1867 Source: Florida Legislative Web site TN Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Postsec. Community College Directs the Department of Corrections, in conjunction with Department of Personnel, to study the issue of education and employment for persons convicted of non-violent criminal offenses; Such study must also include measures that need to be taken to increase educational and skills training at youth and adult detention facilities for non-violent criminal offenders. Requires departments to report their findings by March 1, 2005, to House and Senate education committees. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0543.pdf Title: S.B. 2663 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us VA Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Requires the Department of Correctional Education to arrange for noncustodial parent offenders committed to the custody of the Department of Corrections to be afforded the opportunity to participate in pre- and post- release parenting programs that include parenting skills training, anger management and literacy skills. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=041&typ=bil&val=sb576 Title: S.B. 98 Source: http://leg1.state.va.us VA Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Excuses from compulsory school attendance requirements persons 16 through 18 years of age who are housed in adult correctional facilities and who are actively pursuing a general education development certificate but who are not enrolled in an individual student alternative education plan. Title: S.B. 404 Source: StateNet WY Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Specifies responsibility of the Department of Education for education programs and services available to children detained and placed by court; clarifies the role of school districts; requires use of Medicaid funds to the extent available; authorizes school health programs under state medical assistance. Title: S.B. 80 Source: StateNet CA Vetoed 10/2003 P-12 Postsec. Establishes the Robert E. Burton Correctional Education Board within the Department of Corrections. Requires the board to approve education programs in correctional institutions and adopt rules and regulations for the admission of inmate students to these programs. Requires the board to provide every inmate who has a reasonable expectation of release with the opportunity to achieve a specified level of functional literacy. The board would also be required to provide college-level academic programs, as specified. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1201-1250/ab_1219_bill_20030908_enrolled.html Title: A.B. 1219 Source: California Legislative Web site NV Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Requires the department of education to adopt regulations that establish a statewide program of education for incarcerated persons and to coordinate with and assist school districts in operating programs of education for incarcerated persons; creates the fund for programs of education for incarcerated persons. Title: S.B. 317 Source: StateNet MD Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Makes juvenile justice alternative education pilot program a permanent, non-pilot program. Specifies that the juvenile justice alternative education program is for students who are suspended, expelled, identified as candidates for being suspended or expelled, or ordered to attend by the juvenile court as a condition of probation. Requires the department of education to oversee and the state board of education to organize and run the program. Establishes composition of juvenile justice alternative education advisory board membership. Specifies that the state board must, with the advice of the advisory board, select a private agency to administer the program, and that the program may be operated in a facility owned and operated by a private party or a county board. Specifies that student who is suspended, expelled or is identified as a candidate for suspension or expulsion must attend the program starting the first day of the student's suspension or expulsion. Requires students to receive courses focusing on English/language arts, math, science and social studies. Requires every board to consider course credit earned in such a program as credit earned in a county school. Requires the county board to pay the juvenile justice alternative education program the basic current expenses per pupil for each student transferred to the program from the county's schools. http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/hb/hb0490e.rtf Title: H.B. 490 Source: mlis.state.md.us IN Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Postsec. Allows a prisoner to receive additional credit time for a diploma or degree completed before July 1, 1999, if the prisoner has a good conduct record since the completion of the diploma or degree, unless the prisoner has been convicted of certain sex crimes and sex crimes involving children. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?year=2003&request=getBill&docno=482 Title: S.B. 482 Source: Indiana Legislative Web site KS Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Modifies definition of juvenile detention facility to clarify that such shall not be a jail and may include specified treatment facilities. http://www.kslegislature.org/enrollbills/approved/2003/82.pdf Title: S.B. 82 Source: www.kslegislature.org TX Rule Adoption 03/2003 P-12 Proposes rules concerning Memoranda of Understanding, with regard to coordinated services for multi-problem children and youth and transition planning for students receiving special education services. TEXAS REG 85090 (SN) Title: 37 TAC 349.69 thru 349.72 Source: StateNet ND Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Definition of a student with disabilities includes a student aged 18 through 21 who is incarcerated in an adult correctional facility and who, in the last educational placement prior to incarceration, was identified as being a student with a disability and did not have an individualized education program or was identified as being a student with a disability and had an individualized education program. http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/58-2003/bill_text/DQVO0200.pdf Title: H.B. 1080 Source: StateNet NY Vetoed 07/2002 P-12 Provides that correctional facilities shall coordinate the enrollment of a consenting child in the transitional program for post release services of the school district in which the facility is located; provides that the school district's transitional program for post release services may be provided for six months beyond release. Title: S.B. 1893 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet DE Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Requires the Department of Education to continue to provide funding for a portion of the education costs associated with prison inmates aged 18 to 21 years who qualify for special education. http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/LIS141.NSF/vwLegislation/ Title: S.B. 391 Source: www.legis.state.de.us KS Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Increases number of preschool-aged at-risk pupils to be counted for participation in Head Start programs; adds Clarence M. Kelley Transitional Living Center and King's Achievement Center to list of facilities defined as juvenile detention facilities; states that district payments to these facilities are not district operating expenses; allows districts sending pupils to these facilities to receive state grants. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2002/2094.pdf Title: H.B. 2094 Source: www.kslegislature.org AZ Signed into law 06/2002 P-12 Permits the expenses of prisoner instruction related to vocational education, job training, parenting and alcohol and other drug use treatment classes to be paid through a revolving fund. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/laws/0328.htm Title: H.B. 2708 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us MD Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Authorizes the State Board of Education or a county board of education to enter into a certain partnership with the county's circuit court judges to oversee the juvenile justice alternative education pilot program. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0304t.rtf Title: S.B. 304 Source: mlis.state.md.us KY Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Shortens the detention period of a child charged with a public offense; relates to inspection of juvenile detention facilities; relates to transportation of children; relates to transfer of children; relates to medical care and education of children; relates to criteria for determining how a child is to be tried; relates to imposition of fines; relates to the local alternatives to detention fund and its use. Title: H.B. 145 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet ID Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 SPECIAL EDUCATION-Amends existing law to revise eligibility requirements for special education services provided to adult correctional facility inmates who are between eighteen and twenty-one years of age. Title: H.B. 398 Source: Idaho State Board of Education Web site NY Signed into law 12/2001 P-12 Provides for making educational services available to certain persons in youth shelters; defines youth shelter as a facility which receives funding from the State Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives and serves youths in a residential program who have not received a high school diploma who would otherwise be incarcerated in a local correctional facility. Title: S.B. 4028 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OR Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Specifies method of funding education programs for juveniles in detention facilities; provides for teacher transfers when juvenile detention education program responsibilities are transferred to another school district or education school service district. Title: H.B. 3619 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet TX Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Relates to school district disciplinary action against a student with a disability who receives special education services. Any disciplinary action regarding a student with a disability who receives special education services that would constitute a change in placement under federal law may be taken only after the student's admission, review, and dismissal committee conducts a manifestation determination review. Relates to the authority of a juvenile justice alternative education program to obtain a waiver regarding required days of operation. Title: S.B. 189 Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/ MD Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Creates the Summer Opportunity Pilot Program of the Department of Juvenile Justice in selected counties; creates purpose; creates nonlapsing fund to finance the program; creates a funding mechanism and procedures for holding moneys; requires a county board of education to review a proposal and forward a final proposal to the Department for approval; requires Department and the State Board of Education to review a final proposal of a county board; provides for curriculum. Title: H.B. 892 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet WV Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Allows good-time credit for obtaining a GED or high school diploma in jail. Title: H.B. 3192 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet ID Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Provides for year-round schooling of juveniles placed in county juvenile centers. Title: H.B. 292 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OH Signed into law 12/2000 P-12 Requires that prisoners in the custody of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction participate in educational programs; requires that children who are committed to the Department of Youth Services work toward earning a high school diploma; limits designated types of prisoner employment to prisoners who have earned a high school diploma or certificate of high school equivalence. Title: S.B. 115 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Establishes the Correctional Education Board within the Department of Corrections. Provides that the board would be composed of 15 members, appointed as specified. Requires the board, among other duties and responsibilities, to approve education programs in correctional institutions and adopt rules and regulations for the admission of inmate students. Title: S.B. 1845 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet FL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Provides for school district systems to provide instructional personnel at certain juvenile justice programs. requires the provision of educational instruction to youth detained in certain facilities; requires Department of Juvenile Justice and Department of Education to develop a plan for vocational education in juvenile justice facilities; allows full-time teachers in juvenile justice facilities to participate in the critical-teacher-shortage tuition-reimbursement program. Title: S.B. 2464 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet ME Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 (LD 2608) Requires juvenile correctional educational programs and schools to receive annual approval by the Department of Education; amends the membership, duties, meeting and reporting requirements of the policy review council; establishes a task force to study educational programs at juvenile correctional facilities. Title: H.B. 1872 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Relates to prisoners; requires the achievement of functional literacy at the 8th grade level for prisoners to be eligible for community supervisions; requires an inmate who passes the grade eight literacy test but does not have a high school diploma to obtain his GED; requires failure to obtain the GED will result in the inmate losing his earned release credits. Title: H.B. 2374 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MD Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Establishes that specified facilities for delinquent or detained youth are established and operated by the Department of Juvenile Justice and are considered places of confinement for diagnosis, care, training, education, and rehabilitation of children who need these services. Title: S.B. 39 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Provides that teacher staffing ratios for regional or local detention homes will be based on a ratio of one teacher for every twelve beds based on the capacity of the facility, however, if the previous year's average daily attendance exceeds this bed capacity, the ratio will be based on the average daily attendance at the facility as calculated by the Department of Education from the previous year. Title: H.B. 53 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet