Bill Amendment: TX SB9 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature

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Bill Title: Relating to the rights and certification of public school educators, including financial and other assistance and waivers provided to public schools by the Texas Education Agency related to public school educators, methods of instruction provided in public schools, and certain allotments under the Foundation School Program.

Status: 2023-05-24 - Postponed 6/10/23 [SB9 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB9-House_Amendment_H_2_5-Bernal.html

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Amend CSSB 9 (house committee printing) as follows:

(1)  On page 25, line 12, strike "Sections 48.112(c) and (d) and 48.114" and substitute "Sections 48.104(a), (d), and (e), 48.112(c) and (d), and 48.114".

(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Sections 48.104(a), (d), and (e), Education Code, are amended to read as follows:

(a)  For each student who does not have a disability and resides in a residential placement facility in a district in which the student's parent or legal guardian does not reside, a district is entitled to an annual allotment equal to the basic allotment multiplied by 0.2 or, if the student is educationally disadvantaged, 0.28 [0.275]. For each full-time equivalent student who is in a remedial and support program under Section 29.081 because the student is pregnant, a district is entitled to an annual allotment equal to the basic allotment multiplied by 2.41.

(d)  The weights assigned to the five tiers of the index established under Subsection (c) are, from least to most severe economic disadvantage, 0.23 [0.225], 0.2425 [0.2375], 0.255 [0.25], 0.2675 [0.2625], and 0.28 [0.275].

(e)  If insufficient data is available for any school year to evaluate the level of economic disadvantage in a census block group, a school district is entitled to an annual allotment equal to the basic allotment multiplied by 0.23 [0.225] for each student who is educationally disadvantaged and resides in that census block group.