Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

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1	1		By: Taylor of Galveston S.B. No. 2142
	2	+	(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2017; March 29, 2017, read
	3	+	first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 26, 2017,
	4	+	reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0;
	5	+	April 26, 2017, sent to printer.)
	6	+	Click here to see the committee vote
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4	9		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	10		AN ACT
6	11		relating to the repeal of the high school allotment under the
7	12		Foundation School Program.
8	13		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	14		SECTION 1. Sections 29.918(a) and (b), Education Code, are
10	15		amended to read as follows:
11	16		(a) Notwithstanding Section [39.234 or] 42.152, a school
12	17		district or open-enrollment charter school with a high dropout
13	18		rate, as determined by the commissioner, must submit a plan to the
14	19		commissioner describing the manner in which the district or charter
15	20		school intends to use the compensatory education allotment under
16	21		Section 42.152 [and the high school allotment under Section 42.160]
17	22		for developing and implementing research-based strategies for
18	23		dropout prevention. The district or charter school shall submit
19	24		the plan not later than December 1 of each school year preceding the
20	25		school year in which the district or charter school will receive the
21	26		compensatory education allotment [or high school allotment] to
22	27		which the plan applies.
23	28		(b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school to
24	29		which this section applies may not spend or obligate more than 25
25	30		percent of the district's or charter school's compensatory
26	31		education allotment [or high school allotment] unless the
27	32		commissioner approves the plan submitted under Subsection (a). The
28	33		commissioner shall complete an initial review of the district's or
29	34		charter school's plan not later than March 1 of the school year
30	35		preceding the school year in which the district or charter school
31	36		will receive the compensatory education allotment [or high school
32	37		allotment] to which the plan applies.
33	38		SECTION 2. Section 39.0233(a), Education Code, is amended
34	39		to read as follows:
35	40		(a) The agency, in coordination with the Texas Higher
36	41		Education Coordinating Board, shall adopt a series of questions to
37	42		be included in an end-of-course assessment instrument administered
38	43		under Section 39.023(c) to be used for purposes of Section 51.3062.
39	44		The questions adopted under this subsection must be developed in a
40	45		manner consistent with any college readiness standards adopted
41	46		under Section [Sections 39.233 and] 51.3062.
42	47		SECTION 3. Section 42.302(a), Education Code, is amended to
43	48		read as follows:
44	49		(a) Each school district is guaranteed a specified amount
45	50		per weighted student in state and local funds for each cent of tax
46	51		effort over that required for the district's local fund assignment
47	52		up to the maximum level specified in this subchapter. The amount of
48	53		state support, subject only to the maximum amount under Section
49	54		42.303, is determined by the formula:
50	55		GYA = (GL X WADA X DTR X 100) - LR
51	56		where:
52	57		"GYA" is the guaranteed yield amount of state funds to be
53	58		allocated to the district;
54	59		"GL" is the dollar amount guaranteed level of state and local
55	60		funds per weighted student per cent of tax effort, which is an
56	61		amount described by Subsection (a-1) or a greater amount for any
57	62		year provided by appropriation;
58	63		"WADA" is the number of students in weighted average daily
59	64		attendance, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the school
60	65		district's allotments under Subchapters B and C, less any allotment
61	66		to the district for transportation, any allotment under Section
62	67		42.158 [or 42.160], and 50 percent of the adjustment under Section
63	68		42.102, by the basic allotment for the applicable year;
64	69		"DTR" is the district enrichment tax rate of the school
65	70		district, which is determined by subtracting the amounts specified
66	71		by Subsection (b) from the total amount of maintenance and
67	72		operations taxes collected by the school district for the
68	73		applicable school year and dividing the difference by the quotient
69	74		of the district's taxable value of property as determined under
70	75		Subchapter M, Chapter 403, Government Code, or, if applicable,
71	76		under Section 42.2521, divided by 100; and
72	77		"LR" is the local revenue, which is determined by multiplying
73	78		"DTR" by the quotient of the district's taxable value of property as
74	79		determined under Subchapter M, Chapter 403, Government Code, or, if
75	80		applicable, under Section 42.2521, divided by 100.
76	81		SECTION 4. The following provisions of the Education Code
77	82		are repealed:
78	83		(1) Section 29.097(g);
79	84		(2) Section 29.098(e);
80	85		(3) Section 39.233;
81	86		(4) Section 39.234; and
82	87		(5) Section 42.160.
83	88		SECTION 5. It is the intent of the legislature in repealing
84	89		by this Act the high school allotment under Section 42.160,
85	90		Education Code, that the funding that would otherwise have been
86	91		allocated for that allotment be used to increase the amount of
87	92		funding for the basic allotment under Section 42.101, Education
88	93		Code, in the General Appropriations Act.
89	94		SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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