Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

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1	1	By: Taylor of Galveston S.B. No. 1635
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to the career and technology education allotment and the
7	7	essential knowledge and skills of the career and technology
8	8	education and technology applications curriculums.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Sections 42.154(a), (b), (c), and (e), Education
11	11	Code, are amended to read as follows:
12	12	(a) For each full-time equivalent student in average daily
13	13	attendance in an approved career and technology education program
14	14	or an approved technology applications course in grades nine
15	15	through 12 or in career and technology education programs for
16	16	students with disabilities in grades seven through 12, a district
17	17	is entitled to:
18	18	(1) an annual allotment equal to the adjusted basic
19	19	allotment multiplied by a weight of 1.35; and
20	20	(2) $50, if the student is enrolled in:
21	21	(A) two or more advanced career and technology
22	22	education courses [classes] for a total of three or more credits;
23	23	(B) two or more advanced technology applications
24	24	courses for a total of three or more credits; or
25	25	(C) [(B)] an advanced course as part of a
26	26	tech-prep program under Subchapter T, Chapter 61.
27	27	(b) In this section, "full-time equivalent student" means
28	28	30 hours of contact a week between a student and career and
29	29	technology education program or technology applications personnel.
30	30	(c) Funds allocated under this section, other than an
31	31	indirect cost allotment established under State Board of Education
32	32	rule, must be used in providing career and technology education
33	33	programs and technology applications courses in grades nine through
34	34	12 or career and technology education programs for students with
35	35	disabilities in grades seven through 12 under Sections 29.182,
36	36	29.183, and 29.184.
37	37	(e) Out of the total statewide allotment [for career and
38	38	technology education] under this section, the commissioner shall
39	39	set aside an amount specified in the General Appropriations Act,
40	40	which may not exceed an amount equal to one percent of the total
41	41	amount appropriated, to support regional career and technology
42	42	education planning. After deducting the amount set aside under
43	43	this subsection from the total amount appropriated for career and
44	44	technology education and technology applications under this
45	45	section, the commissioner shall reduce each district's tier one
46	46	allotments in the same manner described for a reduction in
47	47	allotments under Section 42.253.
48	48	SECTION 2. Section 42.101(a), Education Code, is amended to
49	49	read as follows:
50	50	(a) For each student in average daily attendance, not
51	51	including the time students spend each day in special education
52	52	programs in an instructional arrangement other than mainstream
53	53	programs, [or] career and technology education programs, or
54	54	technology applications courses, for which an additional allotment
55	55	is made under Subchapter C, a district is entitled to an allotment
56	56	equal to the lesser of $4,765 or the amount that results from the
57	57	following formula:
58	58	A = $4,765 X (DCR/MCR)
59	59	where:
60	60	"A" is the allotment to which a district is entitled;
61	61	"DCR" is the district's compressed tax rate, which is the
62	62	product of the state compression percentage, as determined under
63	63	Section 42.2516, multiplied by the maintenance and operations tax
64	64	rate adopted by the district for the 2005 tax year; and
65	65	"MCR" is the state maximum compressed tax rate, which is the
66	66	product of the state compression percentage, as determined under
67	67	Section 42.2516, multiplied by $1.50.
68	68	SECTION 3. Not later than March 1, 2018, the State Board of
69	69	Education shall:
70	70	(1) conduct a review of the essential knowledge and
71	71	skills of the career and technology and technology applications
72	72	curriculums; and
73	73	(2) amend the board's rules in the Texas
74	74	Administrative Code to consolidate the technology applications
75	75	courses for grades nine through 12 in 19 T.A.C. Chapter 126,
76	76	Subchapter C, with the career and technology education courses in
77	77	19 T.A.C. Chapter 130, and eliminate duplicative courses while
78	78	ensuring certifications are aligned with the rigor of each
79	79	individual course.
80	80	SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2018-2019
81	81	school year.
82	82	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
83	83	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
84	84	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
85	85	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
86	86	Act takes effect September 1, 2017.