Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1	89R11467 MEW-D
2	2	By: Menéndez S.B. No. 1676
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to an allotment for public school students who require
10	10	significant resources under the Foundation School Program and the
11	11	composition of a school district's threat assessment and safe and
12	12	supportive school team.
13	13	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	14	SECTION 1. Section 37.115(d), Education Code, is amended to
15	15	read as follows:
16	16	(d) The superintendent of the district shall ensure, to the
17	17	greatest extent practicable, that the members appointed to each
18	18	team have expertise in counseling, behavior management, mental
19	19	health and substance use, classroom instruction, special
20	20	education, school administration, school safety and security,
21	21	emergency management, and law enforcement. Each team must include
22	22	at least one mental health professional or behavior specialist. A
23	23	team may serve more than one campus of a school district, provided
24	24	that each district campus is assigned a team.
25	25	SECTION 2. Subchapter G, Chapter 48, Education Code, is
26	26	amended by adding Section 48.317 to read as follows:
27	27	Sec. 48.317. ALLOTMENT FOR STUDENTS REQUIRING SIGNIFICANT
28	28	RESOURCES. (a) A school district is entitled to an allotment for a
29	29	student enrolled in the district who requires significant resources
30	30	if the district provides to the commissioner evidence of the
31	31	district's attempts to serve the student through an increasingly
32	32	intense intervention strategy approved by the agency, including:
33	33	(1) documented attempts to develop a behavior
34	34	improvement plan or behavioral intervention plan for the student;
35	35	and
36	36	(2) documented efforts at parental engagement.
37	37	(b) The amount of an allotment for each student described by
38	38	Subsection (a) is an amount equal to 75 percent of the total costs
39	39	associated with serving that student.
40	40	(c) Not later than June 1 of each year, the commissioner
41	41	shall post on the agency's Internet website de-identified
42	42	information regarding allotments received by school districts
43	43	under this section during the preceding school year, including:
44	44	(1) the number of students for whom districts received
45	45	allotments;
46	46	(2) the types of interventions attempted by districts
47	47	to serve students for whom allotments were received; and
48	48	(3) the education service center regions in which
49	49	students for whom districts received allotments reside.
50	50	SECTION 3. Section 37.115(d), Education Code, as amended by
51	51	this Act, applies beginning with the 2025-2026 school year.
52	52	SECTION 4. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
53	53	section, this Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of
54	54	two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by
55	55	Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not
56	56	receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes
57	57	effect September 1, 2025.
58	58	(b) Section 48.317, Education Code, as added by this Act,
59	59	takes effect September 1, 2025.