Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

Texas House Bill HB4191 Compare Versions

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1	1	By: Huberty H.B. No. 4191
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to the public school finance system.
7	7	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
8	8	SECTION 1. Sections 29.918(a) and (b), Education Code, are
9	9	amended to read as follows:
10	10	(a) Notwithstanding Section [39.234 or] 42.152, a school
11	11	district or open-enrollment charter school with a high dropout
12	12	rate, as determined by the commissioner, must submit a plan to the
13	13	commissioner describing the manner in which the district or charter
14	14	school intends to use the compensatory education allotment under
15	15	Section 42.152 [and the high school allotment under Section 42.160]
16	16	for developing and implementing research-based strategies for
17	17	dropout prevention. The district or charter school shall submit the
18	18	plan not later than December 1 of each school year preceding the
19	19	school year in which the district or charter school will receive the
20	20	compensatory education allotment [or high school allotment] to
21	21	which the plan applies.
22	22	(b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school to
23	23	which this section applies may not spend or obligate more than 25
24	24	percent of the district's or charter school's compensatory
25	25	education allotment [or high school allotment] unless the
26	26	commissioner approves the plan submitted under Subsection (a). The
27	27	commissioner shall complete an initial review of the district's or
28	28	charter school's plan not later than March 1 of the school year
29	29	preceding the school year in which the district or charter school
30	30	will receive the compensatory education allotment [or high school
31	31	allotment] to which the plan applies.
32	32	SECTION 2. Section 39.0233(a), Education Code, is amended
33	33	to read as follows:
34	34	(a) The agency, in coordination with the Texas Higher
35	35	Education Coordinating Board, shall adopt a series of questions to
36	36	be included in an end-of-course assessment instrument administered
37	37	under Section 39.023(c) to be used for purposes of Section 51.3062.
38	38	The questions adopted under this subsection must be developed in a
39	39	manner consistent with any college readiness standards adopted
40	40	under Section [Sections 39.233 and] 51.3062.
41	41	SECTION 3. Section 42.1541(a), Education Code, is amended
42	42	to read as follows:
43	43	(a) For the 2017-2018 and subsequent school years, the [The]
44	44	State Board of Education shall by rule revise [increase] the
45	45	indirect cost allotments established under Sections 42.151(h),
46	46	42.152(c), 42.153(b), and 42.154(c) [42.154(a-1) and (c)] and in
47	47	effect for the 2016-2017 [2010-2011] school year to reflect any
48	48	increase in the percentage of total maintenance and operations
49	49	funding represented by the basic allotment [in proportion to the
50	50	average percentage reduction in total state and local maintenance
51	51	and operations revenue provided under this chapter for the
52	52	2011-
53	53	2012 school year] as a result of [S.B. Nos. 1 and 2,] Acts of
54	54	the 85th [82nd] Legislature, Regular [1st Called] Session, 2017
55	55	[2011].
56	56	SECTION 4. The following provisions of the Education Code
57	57	are repealed:
58	58	(1) Section 29.097(g);
59	59	(2) Section 29.098(e);
60	60	(3) Section 39.233;
61	61	(4) Section 39.234;
62	62	(5) Section 42.1541(c);
63	63	(6) Section 42.160; and
64	64	(7) Section 42.2513.
65	65	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.