Sec. 464.020.  ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR DISCIPLINARY ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION TREATMENT PROGRAMS.  (a)  A disciplinary alternative education program under Section 37.008, Education Code, may apply for a license under this chapter to offer chemical dependency treatment services.
(b)  The board of trustees of a school district with a disciplinary alternative education program, or the board's designee, shall employ a mental health professional, as defined by Section 164.003, to provide the services authorized by a license issued under this chapter to the disciplinary alternative education program.
(c)  The department may not issue a license that authorizes a disciplinary alternative education program to provide detoxification or residential services.
(d)  The board of trustees of a school district with a disciplinary alternative education program, or the board's designee, may contract with a private treatment facility or a person employed by or under contract with a private treatment facility to provide chemical dependency treatment services.  The contract may not permit the services to be provided at a site that offers detoxification or residential services.  Section 164.006 applies to a contract made under this section.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1112, Sec. 2, eff. June 18, 1999.  Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1055, Sec. 29, eff. June 20, 2003.
Amended by: 
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1199, eff. April 2, 2015.