Bill Text: TX HB175 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a study regarding the costs of educating students of limited English proficiency in public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-14 - Referred to Public Education [HB175 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB175-Introduced.html
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By: Lucio III | H.B. No. 175 |
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relating to a study regarding the costs of educating students of | ||
limited English proficiency in public schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 29.067 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 29.067. STUDY REGARDING COSTS OF EDUCATING STUDENTS OF | ||
LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY; REPORT. (a) The agency shall conduct | ||
a study to examine the costs of educating a student of limited | ||
English proficiency in public schools. The study must: | ||
(1) determine whether the bilingual education | ||
allotment under Section 42.153 provides adequate funding to schools | ||
for meeting the educational needs of students of limited English | ||
proficiency; | ||
(2) if it is determined under Subdivision (1) that the | ||
bilingual education allotment is inadequate, determine the amount | ||
of adjustment for the bilingual education allotment that would | ||
provide adequate funding to schools for meeting the educational | ||
needs of students of limited English proficiency; | ||
(3) determine whether the educational needs of | ||
students of limited English proficiency and the costs of meeting | ||
those needs vary by grade level from kindergarten through the 12th | ||
grade; and | ||
(4) identify measures that may lower costs and improve | ||
outcomes, including: | ||
(A) implementation of: | ||
(i) new technologies; | ||
(ii) new teaching mediums; and | ||
(iii) new teaching techniques; and | ||
(B) changes to the duration of the academic | ||
calendar and school day. | ||
(b) Not later than January 1, 2018, the agency shall prepare | ||
a report detailing the results of the study under this section and | ||
submit the report to each standing legislative committee with | ||
primary jurisdiction over primary and secondary education. | ||
(c) This section expires September 1, 2018. | ||
SECTION 2. 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, 2017. |