By: Huberty H.B. No. 4191
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the public school finance system.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 29.918(a) and (b), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) Notwithstanding Section [39.234 or] 42.152, a school
district or open-enrollment charter school with a high dropout
rate, as determined by the commissioner, must submit a plan to the
commissioner describing the manner in which the district or charter
school intends to use the compensatory education allotment under
Section 42.152 [and the high school allotment under Section 42.160]
for developing and implementing research-based strategies for
dropout prevention. The district or charter school shall submit the
plan not later than December 1 of each school year preceding the
school year in which the district or charter school will receive the
compensatory education allotment [or high school allotment] to
which the plan applies.
(b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school to
which this section applies may not spend or obligate more than 25
percent of the district's or charter school's compensatory
education allotment [or high school allotment] unless the
commissioner approves the plan submitted under Subsection (a). The
commissioner shall complete an initial review of the district's or
charter school's plan not later than March 1 of the school year
preceding the school year in which the district or charter school
will receive the compensatory education allotment [or high school
allotment] to which the plan applies.
SECTION 2. Section 39.0233(a), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The agency, in coordination with the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board, shall adopt a series of questions to
be included in an end-of-course assessment instrument administered
under Section 39.023(c) to be used for purposes of Section 51.3062.
The questions adopted under this subsection must be developed in a
manner consistent with any college readiness standards adopted
under Section [Sections 39.233 and] 51.3062.
SECTION 3. Section 42.1541(a), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) For the 2017-2018 and subsequent school years, the [The]
State Board of Education shall by rule revise [increase] the
indirect cost allotments established under Sections 42.151(h),
42.152(c), 42.153(b), and 42.154(c) [42.154(a-1) and (c)] and in
effect for the 2016-2017 [2010-2011] school year to reflect any
increase in the percentage of total maintenance and operations
funding represented by the basic allotment [in proportion to the
average percentage reduction in total state and local maintenance
and operations revenue provided under this chapter for the
2011-
2012 school year] as a result of [S.B. Nos. 1 and 2,] Acts of
the 85th [82nd] Legislature, Regular [1st Called] Session, 2017
[2011].
SECTION 4. The following provisions of the Education Code
are repealed:
(1) Section 29.097(g);
(2) Section 29.098(e);
(3) Section 39.233;
(4) Section 39.234;
(5) Section 42.1541(c);
(6) Section 42.160; and
(7) Section 42.2513.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.