Texas 2015 - 84th Regular

Texas House Bill HB3145 Compare Versions

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1	1	84R11209 GCB-D
2	2	By: González H.B. No. 3145
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the computation of dropout rates of a school district
8	8	and the calculation of average daily attendance for funding
9	9	purposes with respect to certain students 18 years of age or older
10	10	receiving special education services from the district.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Section 39.053(g-1), Education Code, is amended
13	13	to read as follows:
14	14	(g-1) In computing dropout and completion rates under
15	15	Subsection (c)(2), the commissioner shall exclude:
16	16	(1) students who are ordered by a court to attend a
17	17	high school equivalency certificate program but who have not yet
18	18	earned a high school equivalency certificate;
19	19	(2) students who were previously reported to the state
20	20	as dropouts, including a student who is reported as a dropout,
21	21	reenrolls, and drops out again, regardless of the number of times of
22	22	reenrollment and dropping out;
23	23	(3) students in attendance who are not in membership
24	24	for purposes of average daily attendance;
25	25	(4) students whose initial enrollment in a school in
26	26	the United States in grades 7 through 12 was as unschooled refugees
27	27	or asylees as defined by Section 39.027(a-1);
28	28	(5) students who are in the district exclusively as a
29	29	function of having been detained at a county detention facility but
30	30	are otherwise not students of the district in which the facility is
31	31	located; [and]
32	32	(6) students who are incarcerated in state jails and
33	33	federal penitentiaries as adults and as persons certified to stand
34	34	trial as adults; and
35	35	(7) students 18 years of age or older who remain
36	36	enrolled in the district and receive special education services
37	37	from the district under Section 29.003 after completing high school
38	38	graduation requirements.
39	39	SECTION 2. Section 42.151, Education Code, is amended by
40	40	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (f-1) and (f-2) to
41	41	read as follows:
42	42	(a) For each student in average daily attendance in a
43	43	special education program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, in a
44	44	mainstream instructional arrangement, a school district is
45	45	entitled to an annual allotment equal to the adjusted basic
46	46	allotment multiplied by 1.1. For each full-time equivalent student
47	47	in average daily attendance in a special education program under
48	48	Subchapter A, Chapter 29, in an instructional arrangement other
49	49	than a mainstream instructional arrangement, a district is entitled
50	50	to an annual allotment equal to the adjusted basic allotment
51	51	multiplied by a weight determined according to instructional
52	52	arrangement as follows:
53	53	Homebound5.0
54	54	Hospital class3.0
55	55	Speech therapy5.0
56	56	Resource room3.0
57	57	Self-contained, mild and moderate,
58	58	regular campus3.0
59	59	Self-contained, severe, regular campus3.0
60	60	Off home campus5.0 [2.7]
61	61	Nonpublic day school1.7
62	62	Vocational adjustment class2.3
63	63	(f-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (f), a student 18 years of
64	64	age or older who is in an off home campus instructional arrangement
65	65	is a full-time equivalent student if the student receives four
66	66	hours of contact a week. A student described by this subsection is
67	67	a part-time equivalent student if the student receives two hours or
68	68	more but less than four hours of contact a week.
69	69	(f-2) The commissioner by rule shall designate equivalent
70	70	contact hour multipliers of not less than 5.5 for:
71	71	(1) the off home campus instructional placement; and
72	72	(2) the vocational adjustment class instructional
73	73	placement.
74	74	SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016
75	75	school year.
76	76	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
77	77	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
78	78	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
79	79	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
80	80	Act takes effect September 1, 2015.