By: Davis S.B. No. 1521
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an allotment under the public school finance system for
dropout prevention.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (b), Section 29.918,
Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) Notwithstanding Section 39.234 or 42.152, a school
district or open-enrollment charter school with a high dropout
rate, as determined by the commissioner, must submit a plan to the
commissioner describing the manner in which the district or charter
school intends to use the compensatory education allotment under
Section 42.152 and the dropout prevention [high school] allotment
under Section 42.160 for developing and implementing
research-based strategies for dropout prevention. The district or
charter school shall submit the plan not later than December 1 of
each school year preceding the school year in which the district or
charter school will receive the compensatory education allotment or
dropout prevention [high school] allotment to which the plan
applies.
(b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school to
which this section applies may not spend or obligate more than 25
percent of the district's or charter school's compensatory
education allotment or dropout prevention [high school] allotment
unless the commissioner approves the plan submitted under
Subsection (a). The commissioner shall complete an initial review
of the district's or charter school's plan not later than March 1 of
the school year preceding the school year in which the district or
charter school will receive the compensatory education allotment or
dropout prevention [high school] allotment to which the plan
applies.
SECTION 2. The heading to Section 39.234, Education Code,
is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 39.234. USE OF DROPOUT PREVENTION [HIGH SCHOOL]
ALLOTMENT.
SECTION 3. The heading to Section 42.160, Education Code,
is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 42.160. DROPOUT PREVENTION [HIGH SCHOOL] ALLOTMENT.
SECTION 4. Section 42.160, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as
follows:
(a) A school district is entitled to an annual allotment of
$____ [$275] for each student in weighted average daily attendance
in grades 6 [9] through 11 [12] in the district, as determined by
multiplying the number of students in average daily attendance in
grades 6 through 11 in the district by the ratio for the district of
the number of students in weighted average daily attendance to the
number of students in average daily attendance.
(a-1) An amount to which a school district is entitled under
this section is in addition to amounts to which the district is
entitled under Section 42.2516. This subsection expires September
1, 2017.
SECTION 5. Section 42.2516, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (d-1) to read as follows:
(d-1) In determining the amount to which a district is
entitled under Subsection (b)(1), the commissioner shall exclude
the amount to which the district was entitled under Subsection
(b)(3) as it existed on January 1, 2009. This subsection expires
September 1, 2017.
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.