By: VanDeaver (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) H.B. No. 396
(In the Senate - Received from the House March 25, 2019;
March 27, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 14, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 14, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to acceptable uses of the instructional materials and
technology fund and the instructional materials and technology
allotment.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 31.021(c), Education Code, as amended by
Chapters 581 (S.B. 810) and 705 (H.B. 3526), Acts of the 85th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, is reenacted and amended to
read as follows:
(c) Money in the state instructional materials and
technology fund shall be used to:
(1) fund the instructional materials and technology
allotment, as provided by Section 31.0211;
(2) purchase special instructional materials for the
education of blind and visually impaired students in public
schools;
(3) pay the expenses associated with the instructional
materials adoption and review process under this chapter;
(4) pay the expenses associated with the purchase or
licensing of open education resource instructional material;
(5) pay the expenses associated with the purchase of
instructional material, including [intrastate] freight and
shipping and the insurance expenses associated with [intrastate]
freight and shipping;
(6) fund the technology lending grant program
established under Section 32.301;
(7) provide funding to the Texas School for the Blind
and Visually Impaired, the Texas School for the Deaf, and the Texas
Juvenile Justice Department; and
(8) pay the expenses associated with the instructional
materials web portal developed under Section 31.081.
SECTION 2. Section 31.0211(c), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c) Subject to Subsection (d), funds allotted under this
section may be used to:
(1) purchase:
(A) materials on the list adopted by the
commissioner, as provided by Section 31.0231;
(B) instructional materials, regardless of
whether the instructional materials are on the list adopted under
Section 31.024;
(C) consumable instructional materials,
including workbooks;
(D) instructional materials for use in bilingual
education classes, as provided by Section 31.029;
(E) instructional materials for use in college
preparatory courses under Section 28.014, as provided by Section
31.031;
(F) supplemental instructional materials, as
provided by Section 31.035;
(G) state-developed open education resource
instructional materials, as provided by Subchapter B-1;
(H) instructional materials and technological
equipment under any continuing contracts of the district in effect
on September 1, 2011; [and]
(I) technological equipment necessary to support
the use of materials included on the list adopted by the
commissioner under Section 31.0231 or any instructional materials
purchased with an allotment under this section; and
(J) inventory software or systems for storing,
managing, and accessing instructional materials and analyzing the
usage and effectiveness of the instructional materials; and
(2) pay:
(A) for training educational personnel directly
involved in student learning in the appropriate use of
instructional materials and for providing for access to
technological equipment for instructional use; and
(B) the salary and other expenses of an employee
who provides technical support for the use of technological
equipment directly involved in student learning.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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