87R12452 KJE-D
By: Meyer H.B. No. 4303
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the adjustment of the average daily attendance of a
school district due to a disaster that disrupts in-person
attendance.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 48.006, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (a-1) and amending Subsections (b) and (c) to
read as follows:
(a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the commissioner
shall adjust the average daily attendance of a school district all
or part of which is located in an area of a disaster declared by the
president of the United States under the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. Section
5121 et seq.) or by the governor under Chapter 418, Government Code,
if in-person attendance in the district is disrupted for at least
37,800 consecutive instructional minutes due to the disaster.
(b) An [The] adjustment under Subsection (a) or (a-1) must
be sufficient to ensure that the district receives funding
comparable to the funding that the district would have received if
the decline in average daily attendance reasonably attributable to
the impact of the disaster had not occurred.
(c) The commissioner may make the adjustment under
Subsection (a) [this section] for the two-year period following the
date of the governor's initial proclamation or executive order
declaring the state of disaster.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.