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| 2 | 2 | | By: Branch H.B. No. 4221 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to providing a middle school allotment under the public |
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| 8 | 8 | | school finance system to fund programs to encourage preparation for |
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| 9 | 9 | | high school. |
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| 10 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 11 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 39, Education Code, is |
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| 12 | 12 | | amended by adding Section 39.1141 to read as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | Sec. 39.1141. MIDDLE SCHOOL ALLOTMENT. (a) A school |
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| 14 | 14 | | district or campus must use funds allocated under Section |
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| 15 | 15 | | 42.2516(b)(4) to: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (1) implement or administer a high school readiness |
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| 17 | 17 | | program that provides academic support and instruction to prepare |
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| 18 | 18 | | underachieving students for entrance into high school; |
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| 19 | 19 | | (2) implement or administer a program that provides |
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| 20 | 20 | | assistance to underachieving students in mathematics and science |
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| 21 | 21 | | course work to prepare those students for high school level |
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| 22 | 22 | | curriculum and expectations; |
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| 23 | 23 | | (3) implement or administer a program that provides |
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| 24 | 24 | | students who have received a failing grade in an academic course the |
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| 25 | 25 | | opportunity to advance and enroll in an intensive program of |
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| 26 | 26 | | instruction to enable the student to retake the course and receive a |
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| 27 | 27 | | passing grade; or |
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| 28 | 28 | | (4) implement or administer a program that encourages |
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| 29 | 29 | | underachieving students to enroll in a career and technology |
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| 30 | 30 | | education program. |
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| 31 | 31 | | (b) An open-enrollment charter school is entitled to an |
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| 32 | 32 | | allotment under this section in the same manner as a school |
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| 33 | 33 | | district. |
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| 34 | 34 | | (c) The commissioner shall adopt rules to administer this |
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| 35 | 35 | | section, including rules related to the permissible use of funds |
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| 36 | 36 | | allocated under this section to an open-enrollment charter school. |
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| 37 | 37 | | SECTION 2. Section 42.2516(b), Education Code, is amended |
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| 38 | 38 | | to read as follows: |
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| 39 | 39 | | (b) Subject to Subsections (b-1), (b-2), (f-1), (g), and |
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| 40 | 40 | | (h), but notwithstanding any other provision of this title, a |
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| 41 | 41 | | school district is entitled to state revenue necessary to provide |
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| 42 | 42 | | the district with the sum of: |
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| 43 | 43 | | (1) the amount of state revenue necessary to maintain |
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| 44 | 44 | | state and local revenue per student in weighted average daily |
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| 45 | 45 | | attendance in the amount equal to the greater of: |
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| 46 | 46 | | (A) the amount of state and local revenue per |
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| 47 | 47 | | student in weighted average daily attendance for the maintenance |
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| 48 | 48 | | and operations of the district available to the district for the |
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| 49 | 49 | | 2005-2006 school year; |
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| 50 | 50 | | (B) the amount of state and local revenue per |
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| 51 | 51 | | student in weighted average daily attendance for the maintenance |
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| 52 | 52 | | and operations of the district to which the district would have been |
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| 53 | 53 | | entitled for the 2006-2007 school year under this chapter, as it |
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| 54 | 54 | | existed on January 1, 2006, or, if the district would have been |
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| 55 | 55 | | subject to Chapter 41, as that chapter existed on January 1, 2006, |
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| 56 | 56 | | the amount to which the district would have been entitled under that |
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| 57 | 57 | | chapter, based on the funding elements in effect for the 2005-2006 |
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| 58 | 58 | | school year, if the district imposed a maintenance and operations |
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| 59 | 59 | | tax at the rate adopted by the district for the 2005 tax year; or |
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| 60 | 60 | | (C) the amount of state and local revenue per |
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| 61 | 61 | | student in weighted average daily attendance for the maintenance |
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| 62 | 62 | | and operations of the district to which the district would have been |
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| 63 | 63 | | entitled for the 2006-2007 school year under this chapter, as it |
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| 64 | 64 | | existed on January 1, 2006, or, if the district would have been |
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| 65 | 65 | | subject to Chapter 41, as that chapter existed on January 1, 2006, |
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| 66 | 66 | | the amount to which the district would have been entitled under that |
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| 67 | 67 | | chapter, based on the funding elements in effect for the 2005-2006 |
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| 68 | 68 | | school year, if the district imposed a maintenance and operations |
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| 69 | 69 | | tax at the rate equal to the rate described by Section 26.08(i) or |
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| 70 | 70 | | (k)(1), Tax Code, as applicable, for the 2006 tax year; |
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| 71 | 71 | | (2) an amount equal to the product of $2,500 |
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| 72 | 72 | | multiplied by the number of classroom teachers, full-time |
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| 73 | 73 | | librarians, full-time counselors certified under Subchapter B, |
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| 74 | 74 | | Chapter 21, and full-time school nurses employed by the district |
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| 75 | 75 | | and entitled to a minimum salary under Section 21.402; [and] |
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| 76 | 76 | | (3) an amount equal to the product of $275 multiplied |
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| 77 | 77 | | by the number of students in average daily attendance in grades nine |
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| 78 | 78 | | through 12 in the district; and |
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| 79 | 79 | | (4) an amount equal to the product of $275 multiplied |
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| 80 | 80 | | by the number of students in average daily attendance in grades |
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| 81 | 81 | | seven and eight in the district. |
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| 82 | 82 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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