By: Lucio S.B. No. 2270
(In the Senate - Filed April 11, 2017; April 12, 2017, read
first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 27, 2017,
reported favorably, as amended, by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 3; April 27, 2017, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Lucio
Amend S.B. 2270 by adding the following appropriately
numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering the subsequent
SECTIONS of the bill appropriately:
SECTION 2. The commissioner of education is required to
implement this Act only if the legislature appropriates money
specifically for that purpose. If the legislature does not
appropriate money specifically for that purpose, the commissioner
of education may, but is not required to, implement this Act using
other appropriations available for the purpose.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to expansion of a pilot program under the foundation
school program for funding prekindergarten programs provided by
certain school districts with early high school graduation
programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.2527(a), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) As a pilot program to enable the state to evaluate the
benefit of providing additional funding at the prekindergarten
level for low-income students, the commissioner shall provide
prekindergarten funding in accordance with this section to a school
district located in the regional boundaries of the Region 1
education service center [a county that borders the United Mexican
States and the Gulf of Mexico].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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