84R26282 KKA-D
By: Lucio III H.B. No. 731
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 731:
By: Aycock C.S.H.B. No. 731
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a pilot program under the foundation school program for
funding prekindergarten programs provided by certain school
districts with early high school graduation programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 42, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 42.2527 to read as follows:
Sec. 42.2527. ADJUSTMENT FOR CERTAIN DISTRICTS WITH EARLY
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION PROGRAMS. (a) As a pilot program to enable
the state to evaluate the benefit of providing additional funding
at the prekindergarten level for low-income students, the
commissioner shall provide prekindergarten funding in accordance
with this section to a school district located in a county that
borders the United Mexican States and the Gulf of Mexico.
(b) The commissioner shall provide funding for a school
district's prekindergarten program on a half-day basis for a number
of low-income prekindergarten students equal to twice the number of
students who received, as a result of participation in an early high
school graduation program operated by the district, a high school
diploma from the district during the preceding school year after
three years of secondary school attendance.
(c) The commissioner may adopt rules necessary to implement
this section.
(d) This section expires September 1, 2023.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.