Texas 2019 - 86th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2433 Compare Versions

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1	1	By: Taylor S.B. No. 2433
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to the career and technology education and technology
7	7	applications allotment and the essential knowledge and skills of
8	8	the career and technology education and technology applications
9	9	curriculums.
10	10	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	11	SECTION 1. The heading to Section 42.154, Education Code,
12	12	is amended to read as follows:
13	13	Sec. 42.154. CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY
14	14	APPLICATIONS ALLOTMENT.
15	15	SECTION 2. Sections 42.154(a), (c), and (e), Education
16	16	Code, are amended to read as follows:
17	17	(a) For each full-time equivalent student in average daily
18	18	attendance in an approved career and technology education program
19	19	or an approved technology applications course in grades nine
20	20	through 12 or in career and technology education programs for
21	21	students with disabilities in grades seven through 12, a district
22	22	is entitled to:
23	23	(1) an annual allotment equal to the adjusted basic
24	24	allotment multiplied by a weight of 1.35; and
25	25	(2) $50, if the student is enrolled in:
26	26	(A) two or more advanced career and technology
27	27	education courses [classes] for a total of three or more credits; or
28	28	(B) two or more advanced technology applications
29	29	courses for a total of three or more credits.
30	30	(c) Funds allocated under this section, other than an
31	31	indirect cost allotment established under State Board of Education
32	32	rule, must be used in providing career and technology education
33	33	programs and technology applications courses in grades nine through
34	34	12 or career and technology education programs for students with
35	35	disabilities in grades seven through 12 under Sections 29.182,
36	36	29.183, and 29.184.
37	37	(e) Out of the total statewide allotment [for career and
38	38	technology education] under this section, the commissioner shall
39	39	set aside an amount specified in the General Appropriations Act,
40	40	which may not exceed an amount equal to one percent of the total
41	41	amount appropriated, to support regional career and technology
42	42	education planning. After deducting the amount set aside under
43	43	this subsection from the total amount appropriated for career and
44	44	technology education and technology applications under this
45	45	section, the commissioner shall reduce each district's tier one
46	46	allotments in the same manner described for a reduction in
47	47	allotments under Section 42.253.
48	48	SECTION 3. Section 42.154(b)(2), Education Code, is amended
49	49	to read as follows:
50	50	(2) "Full-time equivalent student" means 30 hours of
51	51	contact a week between a student and career and technology
52	52	education program or technology applications personnel.
53	53	SECTION 4. Section 42.101(a), Education Code, is amended to
54	54	read as follows:
55	55	(a) For each student in average daily attendance, not
56	56	including the time students spend each day in special education
57	57	programs in an instructional arrangement other than mainstream
58	58	programs, [or] career and technology education programs, or
59	59	technology applications courses, for which an additional allotment
60	60	is made under Subchapter C, a district is entitled to an allotment
61	61	equal to the lesser of $4,765 or the amount that results from the
62	62	following formula:
63	63	A = $4,765 X (DCR/MCR)
64	64	where:
65	65	"A" is the allotment to which a district is entitled;
66	66	"DCR" is the district's compressed tax rate, which is the
67	67	product of the state compression percentage, as determined under
68	68	Section 42.2516, multiplied by the maintenance and operations tax
69	69	rate adopted by the district for the 2005 tax year; and
70	70	"MCR" is the state maximum compressed tax rate, which is the
71	71	product of the state compression percentage, as determined under
72	72	Section 42.2516, multiplied by $1.50.
73	73	SECTION 5. Section 42.154(b)(1), Education Code, is
74	74	repealed.
75	75	SECTION 6. Not later than March 1, 2020, the State Board of
76	76	Education shall:
77	77	(1) conduct a review of the essential knowledge and
78	78	skills of the career and technology and technology applications
79	79	curriculums; and
80	80	(2) amend the board's rules in the Texas
81	81	Administrative Code to consolidate the technology applications
82	82	courses for grades nine through 12 in 19 T.A.C. Chapter 126,
83	83	Subchapter C, with the career and technical education courses in 19
84	84	T.A.C. Chapter 130, and eliminate duplicative courses while
85	85	ensuring certifications are aligned with the rigor of each
86	86	individual course.
87	87	SECTION 7. This Act applies beginning with the 2020-2021
88	88	school year.
89	89	SECTION 8. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
90	90	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
91	91	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
92	92	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
93	93	Act takes effect September 1, 2019.