88R14462 KJE-D
By: West S.B. No. 2319
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the incentive for public schools that provide
additional instructional minutes for all students.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 48.0051, Education Code,
is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 48.0051. INCENTIVE FOR ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL
MINUTES [DAYS].
SECTION 2. Sections 48.0051(a), (b), and (c), Education
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The [Subject to Subsection (a-1), the] commissioner
shall adjust the average daily attendance of a school district or
open-enrollment charter school under Section 48.005 in the manner
provided by Subsection (b) if the district or school[:
[(1) provides the minimum number of minutes of
operational and instructional time required under Section 25.081
and commissioner rules adopted under that section over at least 180
days of instruction; and
[(2)] offers, over the minimum number of minutes of
operational and instructional time required under Section 25.081
and commissioner rules adopted under that section, an additional
12,600 minutes [30 days] of full-day [half-day] instruction for all
students enrolled in the district or school [prekindergarten
through fifth grade].
(b) For a school district or open-enrollment charter school
described by Subsection (a), the commissioner shall increase the
average daily attendance of the district or school under Section
48.005 by the amount that results from the quotient of the sum of
attendance [by students described by Subsection (a)(2)] for each of
the 12,600 [30] additional instructional minutes [days of half-day
instruction] that are provided divided by 75,600 [180].
(c) The commissioner may provide the incentive under this
section to a school district or open-enrollment charter school that
intended, but due to circumstances beyond the district's or
school's control, including the occurrence of a natural disaster
affecting the district or school, was unable to meet the
requirement for instruction under Section 25.081 plus an additional
12,600 minutes [30 days] of full-day [half-day] instruction. The
commissioner may proportionately reduce the incentive provided to a
district or school described by this subsection.
SECTION 3. Section 25.085(i), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a
student enrolled in a school district is not required to attend
school for any additional instructional minutes [days] described by
Section 48.0051.
SECTION 4. Section 48.0051(d), Education Code, is repealed.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.