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By: Branch H.B. No. 4221
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to providing a middle school allotment under the public
school finance system to fund programs to encourage preparation for
high school.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 39, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 39.1141 to read as follows:
Sec. 39.1141. MIDDLE SCHOOL ALLOTMENT. (a) A school
district or campus must use funds allocated under Section
42.2516(b)(4) to:
(1) implement or administer a high school readiness
program that provides academic support and instruction to prepare
underachieving students for entrance into high school;
(2) implement or administer a program that provides
assistance to underachieving students in mathematics and science
course work to prepare those students for high school level
curriculum and expectations;
(3) implement or administer a program that provides
students who have received a failing grade in an academic course the
opportunity to advance and enroll in an intensive program of
instruction to enable the student to retake the course and receive a
passing grade; or
(4) implement or administer a program that encourages
underachieving students to enroll in a career and technology
education program.
(b) An open-enrollment charter school is entitled to an
allotment under this section in the same manner as a school
district.
(c) The commissioner shall adopt rules to administer this
section, including rules related to the permissible use of funds
allocated under this section to an open-enrollment charter school.
SECTION 2. Section 42.2516(b), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) Subject to Subsections (b-1), (b-2), (f-1), (g), and
(h), but notwithstanding any other provision of this title, a
school district is entitled to state revenue necessary to provide
the district with the sum of:
(1) the amount of state revenue necessary to maintain
state and local revenue per student in weighted average daily
attendance in the amount equal to the greater of:
(A) the amount of state and local revenue per
student in weighted average daily attendance for the maintenance
and operations of the district available to the district for the
2005-2006 school year;
(B) the amount of state and local revenue per
student in weighted average daily attendance for the maintenance
and operations of the district to which the district would have been
entitled for the 2006-2007 school year under this chapter, as it
existed on January 1, 2006, or, if the district would have been
subject to Chapter 41, as that chapter existed on January 1, 2006,
the amount to which the district would have been entitled under that
chapter, based on the funding elements in effect for the 2005-2006
school year, if the district imposed a maintenance and operations
tax at the rate adopted by the district for the 2005 tax year; or
(C) the amount of state and local revenue per
student in weighted average daily attendance for the maintenance
and operations of the district to which the district would have been
entitled for the 2006-2007 school year under this chapter, as it
existed on January 1, 2006, or, if the district would have been
subject to Chapter 41, as that chapter existed on January 1, 2006,
the amount to which the district would have been entitled under that
chapter, based on the funding elements in effect for the 2005-2006
school year, if the district imposed a maintenance and operations
tax at the rate equal to the rate described by Section 26.08(i) or
(k)(1), Tax Code, as applicable, for the 2006 tax year;
(2) an amount equal to the product of $2,500
multiplied by the number of classroom teachers, full-time
librarians, full-time counselors certified under Subchapter B,
Chapter 21, and full-time school nurses employed by the district
and entitled to a minimum salary under Section 21.402; [and]
(3) an amount equal to the product of $275 multiplied
by the number of students in average daily attendance in grades nine
through 12 in the district; and
(4) an amount equal to the product of $275 multiplied
by the number of students in average daily attendance in grades
seven and eight in the district.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.