87R5246 MM-F
By: Gates H.B. No. 1411
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to funding under the transportation allotment for
transportation related to career and technology education and the
use of transportation allotment funds by school districts to
provide prepaid fuel cards to certain students.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 48.151(f) and (l), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(f) The cost of transporting career and technology
education students from a school bus stop to a campus or one campus
to another inside a district, from a sending district to another
secondary public school for a career and technology program or an
area career and technology school or to an approved post-secondary
institution under a contract for instruction approved by the
agency, or from a school bus stop or district campus to a location
at which students are provided work-based learning under the
district's career and technology program shall be reimbursed based
on the number of actual miles traveled times the district's
official extracurricular travel per mile rate as set by the board of
trustees and approved by the agency.
(l) A school district may, with the funds allotted under
this section, provide a bus pass, [or] card for another
transportation system, or prepaid fuel card to each student who is
eligible to use the regular transportation system of the district
but for whom the regular transportation system of the district is
not a feasible method of providing transportation, including to a
location at which students are provided work-based learning under
the district's career and technology program. The commissioner by
rule shall provide procedures for a school district to provide bus
passes, [or] cards for another transportation system, or prepaid
fuel cards to students under this subsection.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.