Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1	89R4350 PRL-D
2	2	By: Menéndez S.B. No. 175
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to providing free prekindergarten for certain children.
10	10	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	11	SECTION 1. Section 28.02124(a), Education Code, is amended
12	12	to read as follows:
13	13	(a) Subject to Subsection (c), a parent or guardian may
14	14	elect for a student to:
15	15	(1) repeat prekindergarten;
16	16	(2) enroll in prekindergarten, if the student would
17	17	have been eligible to enroll in prekindergarten during the previous
18	18	school year under Section 29.153 [29.153(b)] and the student has
19	19	not yet enrolled in kindergarten;
20	20	(3) repeat kindergarten;
21	21	(4) enroll in kindergarten, if the student would have
22	22	been eligible to enroll in kindergarten in the previous school year
23	23	and has not yet enrolled in first grade; or
24	24	(5) for grades one through eight, repeat the grade in
25	25	which the student was enrolled during the previous school year.
26	26	SECTION 2. Section 29.153(a-1), Education Code, is amended
27	27	to read as follows:
28	28	(a-1) A district shall offer prekindergarten classes to any
29	29	child [if the district identifies 15 or more children] who is [are
30	30	eligible under Subsection (b) and are] at least four years of age.
31	31	A school district may offer prekindergarten classes to any child
32	32	[if the district identifies 15 or more eligible children] who is
33	33	[are] at least three years of age. A district may not charge tuition
34	34	for a prekindergarten class offered under this section.
35	35	SECTION 3. Section 29.1543, Education Code, is amended to
36	36	read as follows:
37	37	Sec. 29.1543. EARLY EDUCATION REPORTS. The agency shall
38	38	produce and make available to the public on the agency's Internet
39	39	website annual district and campus-level reports containing
40	40	information from the previous school year on early education in
41	41	school districts and open-enrollment charter schools. A report
42	42	under this section must contain:
43	43	(1) the information required by Section 29.1532(c) to
44	44	be reported through the Public Education Information Management
45	45	System (PEIMS);
46	46	(2) a description of the diagnostic reading
47	47	instruments administered in accordance with Section 28.006(c) or
48	48	(c-2);
49	49	(3) the number of students who were administered a
50	50	diagnostic reading instrument administered in accordance with
51	51	Section 28.006(c) or (c-2);
52	52	(4) the number of students whose scores from a
53	53	diagnostic reading instrument administered in accordance with
54	54	Section 28.006(c) or (c-2) indicate reading proficiency;
55	55	(5) the number of kindergarten students who were
56	56	enrolled in a prekindergarten program in the previous school year
57	57	in the same district or school as the district or school in which
58	58	the student attends kindergarten;
59	59	(6) the number and percentage of students who perform
60	60	satisfactorily on the third grade reading or mathematics assessment
61	61	instrument administered under Section 39.023[, disaggregated by
62	62	whether the student was eligible for free prekindergarten under
63	63	Section 29.153];
64	64	(7) the number of students described by Subdivision
65	65	(6) who attended kindergarten in the district, disaggregated by:
66	66	(A) whether the student met the kindergarten
67	67	readiness standard on the reading instrument adopted under Section
68	68	28.006;
69	69	(B) whether the student attended prekindergarten
70	70	in the district; and
71	71	(C) the type of prekindergarten the student
72	72	attended, if applicable; and
73	73	(8) the information described by Subdivisions (6) and
74	74	(7) disaggregated by whether the student is educationally
75	75	disadvantaged.
76	76	SECTION 4. Sections 48.005(a) and (i), Education Code, are
77	77	amended to read as follows:
78	78	(a) In this chapter, average daily attendance is:
79	79	(1) the quotient of the sum of attendance for each day
80	80	of the minimum number of days of instruction as described under
81	81	Section 25.081(a) divided by the minimum number of days of
82	82	instruction;
83	83	(2) for a district that operates under a flexible year
84	84	program under Section 29.0821, the quotient of the sum of
85	85	attendance for each actual day of instruction as permitted by
86	86	Section 29.0821(b)(1) divided by the number of actual days of
87	87	instruction as permitted by Section 29.0821(b)(1);
88	88	(3) for a district that operates under a flexible
89	89	school day program under Section 29.0822, the average daily
90	90	attendance as calculated by the commissioner in accordance with
91	91	Sections 29.0822(d) and (d-1); or
92	92	(4) for a district that operates a prekindergarten
93	93	[half-day program or a full-day] program under Section 29.153(c):
94	94	(A) for a half-day program, one-half of the
95	95	average daily attendance calculated under Subdivision (1); or
96	96	(B) for a full-day program, the average daily
97	97	attendance calculated under Subdivision (1).
98	98	(i) A district or a charter school operating under Chapter
99	99	12 that operates a half-day prekindergarten program is eligible to
100	100	receive one-half of average daily attendance under Subsection (a)
101	101	if the district's or charter school's prekindergarten program
102	102	provides at least 32,400 minutes of instructional time to students.
103	103	SECTION 5. Sections 29.153(b), (e-1), and (f), Education
104	104	Code, are repealed.
105	105	SECTION 6. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026
106	106	school year.
107	107	SECTION 7. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
108	108	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
109	109	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
110	110	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
111	111	Act takes effect September 1, 2025.