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| 1 | 1 | 86R309 CAE-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Powell S.B. No. 2391 | |
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| 5 | 5 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 6 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 7 | relating to use of compensatory education allotment funding to | |
| 8 | 8 | provide assistance to students at risk of dropping out of school who | |
| 9 | 9 | are pregnant or who are parents and to reporting through the Public | |
| 10 | 10 | Education Information Management System. | |
| 11 | 11 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 12 | 12 | SECTION 1. Section 42.152, Education Code, is amended by | |
| 13 | 13 | adding Subsections (c-3) and (c-4) to read as follows: | |
| 14 | 14 | (c-3) Notwithstanding Subsection (c), funds allocated under | |
| 15 | 15 | this section may be used to: | |
| 16 | 16 | (1) provide child-care services or assistance with | |
| 17 | 17 | child-care expenses for students at risk of dropping out of school, | |
| 18 | 18 | as described by Section 29.081(d)(5); or | |
| 19 | 19 | (2) pay the costs associated with services provided | |
| 20 | 20 | through a life skills program in accordance with Sections | |
| 21 | 21 | 29.085(b)(1) and (3)-(7). | |
| 22 | 22 | (c-4) Not later than January 1, 2020, the commissioner shall | |
| 23 | 23 | adopt rules requiring the Public Education Information Management | |
| 24 | 24 | System (PEIMS) to include pregnancy as a reason a student withdraws | |
| 25 | 25 | from or otherwise no longer attends public school. | |
| 26 | 26 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |