89R11467 MEW-D
By: Menéndez S.B. No. 1676
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an allotment for public school students who require
significant resources under the Foundation School Program and the
composition of a school district's threat assessment and safe and
supportive school team.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 37.115(d), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(d) The superintendent of the district shall ensure, to the
greatest extent practicable, that the members appointed to each
team have expertise in counseling, behavior management, mental
health and substance use, classroom instruction, special
education, school administration, school safety and security,
emergency management, and law enforcement. Each team must include
at least one mental health professional or behavior specialist. A
team may serve more than one campus of a school district, provided
that each district campus is assigned a team.
SECTION 2. Subchapter G, Chapter 48, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 48.317 to read as follows:
Sec. 48.317. ALLOTMENT FOR STUDENTS REQUIRING SIGNIFICANT
RESOURCES. (a) A school district is entitled to an allotment for a
student enrolled in the district who requires significant resources
if the district provides to the commissioner evidence of the
district's attempts to serve the student through an increasingly
intense intervention strategy approved by the agency, including:
(1) documented attempts to develop a behavior
improvement plan or behavioral intervention plan for the student;
and
(2) documented efforts at parental engagement.
(b) The amount of an allotment for each student described by
Subsection (a) is an amount equal to 75 percent of the total costs
associated with serving that student.
(c) Not later than June 1 of each year, the commissioner
shall post on the agency's Internet website de-identified
information regarding allotments received by school districts
under this section during the preceding school year, including:
(1) the number of students for whom districts received
allotments;
(2) the types of interventions attempted by districts
to serve students for whom allotments were received; and
(3) the education service center regions in which
students for whom districts received allotments reside.
SECTION 3. Section 37.115(d), Education Code, as amended by
this Act, applies beginning with the 2025-2026 school year.
SECTION 4. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
section, this Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of
two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by
Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not
receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes
effect September 1, 2025.
(b) Section 48.317, Education Code, as added by this Act,
takes effect September 1, 2025.