By: Taylor of Galveston S.B. No. 2142
(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2017; March 29, 2017, read
first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 26, 2017,
reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0;
April 26, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the repeal of the high school allotment under the
Foundation School Program.
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 42.302(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) Each school district is guaranteed a specified amount
per weighted student in state and local funds for each cent of tax
effort over that required for the district's local fund assignment
up to the maximum level specified in this subchapter. The amount of
state support, subject only to the maximum amount under Section
42.303, is determined by the formula:
GYA = (GL X WADA X DTR X 100) - LR
where:
"GYA" is the guaranteed yield amount of state funds to be
allocated to the district;
"GL" is the dollar amount guaranteed level of state and local
funds per weighted student per cent of tax effort, which is an
amount described by Subsection (a-1) or a greater amount for any
year provided by appropriation;
"WADA" is the number of students in weighted average daily
attendance, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the school
district's allotments under Subchapters B and C, less any allotment
to the district for transportation, any allotment under Section
42.158 [or 42.160], and 50 percent of the adjustment under Section
42.102, by the basic allotment for the applicable year;
"DTR" is the district enrichment tax rate of the school
district, which is determined by subtracting the amounts specified
by Subsection (b) from the total amount of maintenance and
operations taxes collected by the school district for the
applicable school year and dividing the difference by the quotient
of the district's taxable value of property as determined under
Subchapter M, Chapter 403, Government Code, or, if applicable,
under Section 42.2521, divided by 100; and
"LR" is the local revenue, which is determined by multiplying
"DTR" by the quotient of the district's taxable value of property as
determined under Subchapter M, Chapter 403, Government Code, or, if
applicable, under Section 42.2521, divided by 100.
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; and
(5) Section 42.160.
SECTION 5. It is the intent of the legislature in repealing
by this Act the high school allotment under Section 42.160,
Education Code, that the funding that would otherwise have been
allocated for that allotment be used to increase the amount of
funding for the basic allotment under Section 42.101, Education
Code, in the General Appropriations Act.
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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