84R11209 GCB-D
By: González H.B. No. 3145
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the computation of dropout rates of a school district
and the calculation of average daily attendance for funding
purposes with respect to certain students 18 years of age or older
receiving special education services from the district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.053(g-1), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(g-1) In computing dropout and completion rates under
Subsection (c)(2), the commissioner shall exclude:
(1) students who are ordered by a court to attend a
high school equivalency certificate program but who have not yet
earned a high school equivalency certificate;
(2) students who were previously reported to the state
as dropouts, including a student who is reported as a dropout,
reenrolls, and drops out again, regardless of the number of times of
reenrollment and dropping out;
(3) students in attendance who are not in membership
for purposes of average daily attendance;
(4) students whose initial enrollment in a school in
the United States in grades 7 through 12 was as unschooled refugees
or asylees as defined by Section 39.027(a-1);
(5) students who are in the district exclusively as a
function of having been detained at a county detention facility but
are otherwise not students of the district in which the facility is
located; [and]
(6) students who are incarcerated in state jails and
federal penitentiaries as adults and as persons certified to stand
trial as adults; and
(7) students 18 years of age or older who remain
enrolled in the district and receive special education services
from the district under Section 29.003 after completing high school
graduation requirements.
SECTION 2. Section 42.151, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (f-1) and (f-2) to
read as follows:
(a) For each student in average daily attendance in a
special education program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, in a
mainstream instructional arrangement, a school district is
entitled to an annual allotment equal to the adjusted basic
allotment multiplied by 1.1. For each full-time equivalent student
in average daily attendance in a special education program under
Subchapter A, Chapter 29, in an instructional arrangement other
than a mainstream instructional arrangement, a district is entitled
to an annual allotment equal to the adjusted basic allotment
multiplied by a weight determined according to instructional
arrangement as follows:
Homebound5.0
Hospital class3.0
Speech therapy5.0
Resource room3.0
Self-contained, mild and moderate,
regular campus3.0
Self-contained, severe, regular campus3.0
Off home campus5.0 [2.7]
Nonpublic day school1.7
Vocational adjustment class2.3
(f-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (f), a student 18 years of
age or older who is in an off home campus instructional arrangement
is a full-time equivalent student if the student receives four
hours of contact a week. A student described by this subsection is
a part-time equivalent student if the student receives two hours or
more but less than four hours of contact a week.
(f-2) The commissioner by rule shall designate equivalent
contact hour multipliers of not less than 5.5 for:
(1) the off home campus instructional placement; and
(2) the vocational adjustment class instructional
placement.
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016
school year.
SECTION 4. 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, 2015.