Bill Text: TX HB1801 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a technology grant to be awarded to public school districts that have received certain performance ratings.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-12 - Referred to Public Education [HB1801 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1801-Introduced.html
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| By: King of Hemphill | H.B. No. 1801 | |
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| relating to a technology grant to be awarded to public school | ||
| districts that have received certain performance ratings. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 32, Education Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subchapter H to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER H. TECHNOLOGY GRANT PROGRAM | ||
| Sec. 32.351. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM. (a) The | ||
| commissioner shall establish a grant program under which a grant is | ||
| awarded to a school district that has received a performance rating | ||
| of D or F, as provided by Section 39.054, for the preceding school | ||
| year. | ||
| (b) A school district may apply to the commissioner to | ||
| participate in the grant program. In awarding grants under this | ||
| subchapter for each school year, the commissioner shall consider | ||
| the availability of existing technological equipment to students in | ||
| the district. | ||
| (c) The commissioner may determine the terms of a grant | ||
| awarded under this subchapter, including limits on the grant amount | ||
| and the approved uses of grant funds. | ||
| Sec. 32.352. FUNDING. The commissioner shall award grants | ||
| under this subchapter using funds appropriated for that purpose. | ||
| Sec. 32.353. USE OF GRANT FUNDS. A school district may use | ||
| a grant awarded under Section 32.351 to expand access to | ||
| technologies that are necessary to improve access to high quality | ||
| digital learning at campuses in the district, including: | ||
| (1) purchasing and maintaining technological | ||
| equipment; | ||
| (2) providing instruction on the use of technological | ||
| equipment; and | ||
| (3) increasing the technological literacy of | ||
| students. | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
