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| 1 | 1 | By: Bernal H.B. No. 268 | |
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| 4 | 4 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 5 | 5 | AN ACT | |
| 6 | 6 | relating to transportation services for homeless students. | |
| 7 | 7 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 8 | 8 | SECTION 1. Section 42.155, Education Code, Subsection (g) | |
| 9 | 9 | is amended to read as follows: | |
| 10 | 10 | (g) A school district or county that provides special | |
| 11 | 11 | transportation services for eligible special education students or | |
| 12 | 12 | homeless students as defined by 42 U.S.C. Section 11302 is entitled | |
| 13 | 13 | to a state allocation paid on a previous year's cost-per-mile | |
| 14 | 14 | basis. The maximum rate per mile allowable shall be set by | |
| 15 | 15 | appropriation based on data gathered from the first year of each | |
| 16 | 16 | preceding biennium. Districts may use a portion of their support | |
| 17 | 17 | allocation to pay transportation costs, if necessary. The | |
| 18 | 18 | commissioner may grant an amount set by appropriation for private | |
| 19 | 19 | transportation to reimburse parents or their agents for | |
| 20 | 20 | transporting eligible special education students. The mileage | |
| 21 | 21 | allowed shall be computed along the shortest public road from the | |
| 22 | 22 | student's home to school and back, morning and afternoon. The need | |
| 23 | 23 | for this type transportation shall be determined on an individual | |
| 24 | 24 | basis and shall be approved only in extreme hardship cases. | |
| 25 | 25 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |