Bill Text: TX HB199 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to permissible uses of the instructional materials allotment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-26 - Left pending in committee [HB199 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB199-Introduced.html
86R2848 CAE-F | ||
By: Bernal | H.B. No. 199 |
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relating to permissible uses of the instructional materials | ||
allotment. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 31.0211(c), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(c) Subject to Subsection (d), funds allotted under this | ||
section may be used to: | ||
(1) purchase: | ||
(A) materials on the list adopted by the | ||
commissioner, as provided by Section 31.0231; | ||
(B) instructional materials, regardless of | ||
whether the instructional materials are on the list adopted under | ||
Section 31.024; | ||
(C) consumable instructional materials, | ||
including workbooks; | ||
(D) instructional materials for use in bilingual | ||
education classes, as provided by Section 31.029; | ||
(E) instructional materials for use in college | ||
preparatory courses under Section 28.014, as provided by Section | ||
31.031; | ||
(F) supplemental instructional materials, as | ||
provided by Section 31.035; | ||
(G) state-developed open education resource | ||
instructional materials, as provided by Subchapter B-1; | ||
(H) instructional materials and technological | ||
equipment under any continuing contracts of the district in effect | ||
on September 1, 2011; and | ||
(I) technological equipment necessary to support | ||
the use of materials included on the list adopted by the | ||
commissioner under Section 31.0231 or any instructional materials | ||
purchased with an allotment under this section; and | ||
(2) pay: | ||
(A) for training educational personnel directly | ||
involved in student learning in the appropriate use of | ||
instructional materials, and for providing for access to | ||
technological equipment for instructional use; and | ||
(B) the salary and other expenses of an employee | ||
who: | ||
(i) provides technical support for the use | ||
of technological equipment directly involved in student learning; | ||
or | ||
(ii) is directly involved in: | ||
(a) student learning; or | ||
(b) addressing the social and | ||
emotional health of students. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2019. |