Bill Text: TX HB231 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to transportation services for homeless students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-19 - Referred to Public Education [HB231 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB231-Introduced.html
| By: Bernal | H.B. No. 231 | |
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| relating to transportation services for homeless students. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 42.155, Education Code, Subsection (g) | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (g) A school district or county that provides special | ||
| transportation services for eligible special education students or | ||
| homeless students as defined by 42 U.S.C. Section 11302 i | ||
| s entitled | ||
| to a state allocation paid on a previous year's cost-per-mile | ||
| basis. The maximum rate per mile allowable shall be set by | ||
| appropriation based on data gathered from the first year of each | ||
| preceding biennium. Districts may use a portion of their support | ||
| allocation to pay transportation costs, if necessary. The | ||
| commissioner may grant an amount set by appropriation for private | ||
| transportation to reimburse parents or their agents for | ||
| transporting eligible special education students. The mileage | ||
| allowed shall be computed along the shortest public road from the | ||
| student's home to school and back, morning and afternoon. The need | ||
| for this type transportation shall be determined on an individual | ||
| basis and shall be approved only in extreme hardship cases. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
