83R4974 CAS-F
By: Flynn H.B. No. 1434
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to payment of tuition to attend public schools for
students holding certain United States student visas.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 25, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 25.0031 to read as follows:
Sec. 25.0031. TUITION FOR STUDENTS HOLDING CERTAIN STUDENT
VISAS. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, if a
student is required, as a condition of obtaining or holding the
appropriate United States student visa, to pay tuition to the
school district or open-enrollment charter school that the student
attends to cover the cost of the student's education provided by the
district or charter school, the district or charter school shall
accept tuition for the student in an amount equal to the full
unsubsidized per capita cost of providing the student's education
for the period of the student's attendance at school in the district
or at the charter school.
(b) The commissioner shall, for purposes of Subsection (a),
develop guidelines for determining the amount of the full
unsubsidized per capita cost of providing a student's education. A
school district or open-enrollment charter school may not accept
tuition in an amount greater than the amount computed under the
commissioner's guidelines unless the commissioner approves a
greater amount as a more accurate reflection of the cost of
education to be provided by the district or charter school.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the
attendance of a student for whom a school district or
open-enrollment charter school accepts tuition under this section
is not counted for purposes of allocating state funds to the
district or charter school.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2013-2014
school year.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2013.