Bill Text: TX HB4707 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the closure of a school district campus and an underutilized instructional campus allotment under the public school finance system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Public Education [HB4707 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4707-Introduced.html
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| By: Dutton | H.B. No. 4707 | |
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| relating to the closure of a school district campus and an | ||
| underutilized instructional campus allotment under the public | ||
| school finance system. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 11.172 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 11.172. CLOSURE OF CAMPUS. Before the board of | ||
| trustees of a school district orders the closure of a campus in the | ||
| district: | ||
| (1) the board must hold at least two public meetings at | ||
| a location in the attendance zone of the campus to discuss the | ||
| closure of the campus and receive feedback from the community; and | ||
| (2) if the determination to close the campus is based | ||
| on the fact that the campus is an underutilized instructional | ||
| campus, as defined by Section 48.2521, the board must, if feasible, | ||
| enter into a contract for the operation of the district campus under | ||
| Section 11.174 instead of closing the campus. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter F, Chapter 48, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 48.2521 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 48.2521. UNDERUTILIZED INSTRUCTIONAL CAMPUS | ||
| ALLOTMENT. (a) In this section, "underutilized instructional | ||
| campus" means a campus of a school district at which student | ||
| instruction is provided and the number of students in average daily | ||
| attendance enrolled at the campus constitutes 50 percent or less of | ||
| the maximum student capacity of the campus, as determined by | ||
| commissioner rule. | ||
| (b) In addition to the amount to which a school district is | ||
| entitled under Section 48.252, for the first two school years for | ||
| which an underutilized instructional campus in a school district is | ||
| operated under a contract entered into by the school district under | ||
| Section 11.174, the district is entitled to an allotment equal to | ||
| the product of the amount of funding to which the district is | ||
| entitled under Section 48.252 for each student in average daily | ||
| attendance multiplied by the amount equal to the difference | ||
| between: | ||
| (1) the number of students equal to the maximum | ||
| student capacity of the underutilized instructional campus; and | ||
| (2) the number of students in attendance at the | ||
| underutilized instructional campus on the last Friday in October of | ||
| the school year for which the allotment is provided. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
