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