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1		-	By: Howard, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Watson) H.B. No. 2660
2		-	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2015;
3		-	May 13, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
4		-	Education; May 21, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:
5		-	Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 21, 2015, sent to printer.)
6		-	Click here to see the committee vote
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9		-	COMMITTEE VOTE
10		-	YeaNayAbsentPNV
11		-	TaylorofGalvestonX
12		-	LucioX
13		-	BettencourtX
14		-	CampbellX
15		-	GarciaX
16		-	HuffinesX
17		-	KolkhorstX
18		-	RodríguezX
19		-	SeligerX
20		-	TaylorofCollinX
21		-	WestX
22		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
23	4		AN ACT
24	5		relating to Foundation School Program funding for students enrolled
25	6		in an optional flexible school day program.
26	7		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
27	8		SECTION 1. Section 29.0822, Education Code, is amended by
28	9		amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (d-1) to read as
29	10		follows:
30	11		(d) The commissioner may adopt rules for the administration
31	12		of this section, including rules establishing application
32	13		requirements. Subject to Subsection (d-1), the [The] commissioner
33	14		shall calculate average daily attendance for students served under
34	15		this section. The commissioner shall allow accumulations of hours
35	16		of instruction for students whose schedule would not otherwise
36	17		allow full state funding. Funding under this subsection shall be
37	18		determined based on the number of instructional days in the school
38	19		district calendar and a seven-hour school day, but attendance may
39	20		be cumulated over a school year, including any summer or vacation
40	21		session. The attendance of students who accumulate less than the
41	22		number of attendance hours required under this subsection shall be
42	23		proportionately reduced for funding purposes. The commissioner
43	24		may:
44	25		(1) set maximum funding amounts for an individual
45	26		course under this section; and
46	27		(2) limit funding for the attendance of a student
47	28		described by Subsection (a)(3) in a course under this section to
48	29		funding only for the attendance necessary for the student to earn
49	30		class credit that, as a result of attendance requirements under
50	31		Section 25.092, the student would not otherwise be able to receive
51	32		without retaking the class.
52	33		(d-1) In calculating average daily attendance for students
53	34		served under this section, the commissioner shall ensure that
54	35		funding for attendance in a course in a program under this section
55	36		is based on the same instructional hour requirements of the regular
56	37		program rather than a full-time equivalent student basis that
57	38		requires six hours of student contact time to qualify for a full day
58	39		of attendance.
59	40		SECTION 2. Section 42.005(a), Education Code, is amended to
60	41		read as follows:
61	42		(a) In this chapter, average daily attendance is:
62	43		(1) the quotient of the sum of attendance for each day
63	44		of the minimum number of days of instruction as described under
64	45		Section 25.081(a) divided by the minimum number of days of
65	46		instruction;
66	47		(2) for a district that operates under a flexible year
67	48		program under Section 29.0821, the quotient of the sum of
68	49		attendance for each actual day of instruction as permitted by
69	50		Section 29.0821(b)(1) divided by the number of actual days of
70	51		instruction as permitted by Section 29.0821(b)(1); or
71	52		(3) for a district that operates under a flexible
72	53		school day program under Section 29.0822, the average daily
73	54		attendance as calculated by the commissioner in accordance with
74	55		Sections [Section] 29.0822(d) and (d-1).
75	56		SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016
76	57		school year.
77	58		SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
78	59		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
79	60		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
80	61		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
81	62		Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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	63	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	64	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	65	+	I certify that H.B. No. 2660 was passed by the House on May 5,
	66	+	2015, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	67	+	voting.
	68	+	______________________________
	69	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	70	+	I certify that H.B. No. 2660 was passed by the Senate on May
	71	+	26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
	72	+	______________________________
	73	+	Secretary of the Senate
	74	+	APPROVED: _____________________
	75	+	Date
	76	+	_____________________
	77	+	Governor