By: Price (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 2593
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 18, 2015;
May 18, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 22, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 22, 2015, sent to printer.)
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TaylorofGalvestonX
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GarciaX
HuffinesX
KolkhorstX
RodrÃguezX
SeligerX
TaylorofCollinX
WestX
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the sparsity adjustment for certain school districts
under the Foundation School Program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.105, Education Code, as effective
September 1, 2015, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 42.105. SPARSITY ADJUSTMENT. (a) Notwithstanding
Sections 42.101, 42.102, and 42.103, a school district that has
fewer than 130 students in average daily attendance shall be
provided an adjusted basic allotment on the basis of 130 students in
average daily attendance if it offers a kindergarten through grade
12 program and has preceding or current year's average daily
attendance of at least 90 students or is 30 miles or more by bus
route from the nearest high school district. A district offering a
kindergarten through grade 8 program whose preceding or current
year's average daily attendance was at least 50 students or which is
30 miles or more by bus route from the nearest high school district
shall be provided an adjusted basic allotment on the basis of 75
students in average daily attendance. An average daily attendance
of 60 students shall be the basis of providing the adjusted basic
allotment if a district offers a kindergarten through grade 6
program and has preceding or current year's average daily
attendance of at least 40 students or is 30 miles or more by bus
route from the nearest high school district.
(b) Subsection (c) applies only to a school district that:
(1) does not offer each grade level from kindergarten
through grade 12 and whose prospective or former students generally
attend school in a state that borders this state for the grade
levels the district does not offer;
(2) serves both students residing in this state and
students residing in a state that borders this state who are
subsequently eligible for in-state tuition rates at institutions of
higher education in either state regardless of the state in which
the students reside; and
(3) shares students with an out-of-state district that
does not offer competing instructional services.
(c) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) or Sections 42.101,
42.102, and 42.103, a school district to which this subsection
applies, as provided by Subsection (b), that has fewer than 130
students in average daily attendance shall be provided an adjusted
basic allotment on the basis of 130 students in average daily
attendance if it offers a kindergarten through grade four program
and has preceding or current year's average daily attendance of at
least 75 students or is 30 miles or more by bus route from the
nearest high school district.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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