88R8832 KJE-D
By: Talarico H.B. No. 2179
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the addition of a service readiness component to the
college, career, or military readiness outcomes bonus under the
Foundation School Program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 12.263(e), Education Code, as effective
September 1, 2023, is amended to read as follows:
(e) For purposes of the college, career, [or] military, or
service readiness outcomes bonus under Section 48.110,
notwithstanding Subsection (f) of that section, an annual graduate
of an adult education program operated under a charter granted
under this subchapter demonstrates career readiness by earning an
industry-accepted certificate not later than six months after
completing the program.
SECTION 2. The heading to Section 48.110, Education Code,
is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 48.110. COLLEGE, CAREER, [OR] MILITARY, OR SERVICE
READINESS OUTCOMES BONUS.
SECTION 3. Sections 48.110(b), (c), (d), (f), (g), and (i),
Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
(b) For purposes of the outcomes bonus under this section,
the commissioner shall determine the threshold percentage as
provided by Subsection (g) for college, career, [or] military, or
service readiness as described by Subsection (f) for each of the
following cohorts:
(1) annual graduates who are educationally
disadvantaged;
(2) annual graduates who are not educationally
disadvantaged; and
(3) annual graduates who are enrolled in a special
education program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, regardless of
whether the annual graduates are educationally disadvantaged.
(c) Each year, the commissioner shall determine for each
school district the minimum number of annual graduates in each
cohort described by Subsection (b) who would have to demonstrate
college, career, [or] military, or service readiness as described
by Subsection (f) in order for the district to achieve a percentage
of college, career, [or] military, or service readiness for that
cohort equal to the threshold percentage established for that
cohort under Subsection (b).
(d) For each annual graduate in a cohort described by
Subsection (b) who demonstrates college, career, [or] military, or
service readiness as described by Subsection (f) in excess of the
minimum number of students determined for the applicable district
cohort under Subsection (c), a school district is entitled to an
annual outcomes bonus of:
(1) if the annual graduate is educationally
disadvantaged, $5,000;
(2) if the annual graduate is not educationally
disadvantaged, $3,000; and
(3) if the annual graduate is enrolled in a special
education program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, $2,000,
regardless of whether the annual graduate is educationally
disadvantaged.
(f) For purposes of this section, an annual graduate
demonstrates:
(1) college readiness if the annual graduate:
(A) both:
(i) achieves college readiness standards
used for accountability purposes under Chapter 39 on the ACT, the
SAT, or an assessment instrument designated by the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board under Section 51.334; and
(ii) during a time period established by
commissioner rule, enrolls at a postsecondary educational
institution; or
(B) earns an associate degree from a
postsecondary educational institution approved by the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board while attending high school or during
a time period established by commissioner rule;
(2) career readiness if the annual graduate:
(A) achieves college readiness standards used
for accountability purposes under Chapter 39 on the ACT, the SAT, or
an assessment instrument designated by the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board under Section 51.334; and
(B) during a time period established by
commissioner rule, earns an industry-accepted certificate; [and]
(3) military readiness if the annual graduate:
(A) achieves a passing score set by the
applicable military branch on the Armed Services Vocational
Aptitude Battery; and
(B) during a time period established by
commissioner rule, enlists in the armed forces of the United States
or the Texas National Guard; and
(4) service readiness if the annual graduate enrolls
in an AmeriCorps program not later than the last day of the seventh
month after graduation from high school.
(g) The commissioner shall establish the threshold
percentages under Subsection (b) using the 25th percentile of
statewide college, career, [or] military, or service readiness as
described by Subsection (f) for the applicable cohort of annual
graduates during the 2016-2017 school year.
(i) At least 55 percent of the funds allocated under this
section must be used in grades 8 through 12 to improve college,
career, [and] military, and service readiness outcomes as described
by Subsection (f).
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.