By: Taylor, et al. S.B. No. 1522
(Allison)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the adjustment of the average daily attendance of a
school district on the basis of a calamity.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 48.005(d), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(d) The commissioner may adjust the average daily
attendance of a school district in which a disaster, flood, extreme
weather condition, fuel curtailment, or other calamity has a
significant effect on the district's attendance. In addition to
providing the adjustment for the amount of instructional days
during the semester in which the calamity first occurred, an
adjustment under this section may only be provided based on a
particular calamity for an additional amount of instructional days
equivalent to one school year. The commissioner may divide the
adjustment between two consecutive school years.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.