Bill Text: TX HB2593 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the sparsity adjustment for certain school districts under the Foundation School Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB2593 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2593-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2593 | ||
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| relating to the sparsity adjustment for certain school districts | ||
| under the Foundation School Program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 42.105, Education Code, as effective | ||
| September 1, 2015, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 42.105. SPARSITY ADJUSTMENT. (a) Notwithstanding | ||
| Sections 42.101, 42.102, and 42.103, a school district that has | ||
| fewer than 130 students in average daily attendance shall be | ||
| provided an adjusted basic allotment on the basis of 130 students in | ||
| average daily attendance if it offers a kindergarten through grade | ||
| 12 program and has preceding or current year's average daily | ||
| attendance of at least 90 students or is 30 miles or more by bus | ||
| route from the nearest high school district. A district offering a | ||
| kindergarten through grade 8 program whose preceding or current | ||
| year's average daily attendance was at least 50 students or which is | ||
| 30 miles or more by bus route from the nearest high school district | ||
| shall be provided an adjusted basic allotment on the basis of 75 | ||
| students in average daily attendance. An average daily attendance | ||
| of 60 students shall be the basis of providing the adjusted basic | ||
| allotment if a district offers a kindergarten through grade 6 | ||
| program and has preceding or current year's average daily | ||
| attendance of at least 40 students or is 30 miles or more by bus | ||
| route from the nearest high school district. | ||
| (b) Subsection (c) applies only to a school district that: | ||
| (1) does not offer each grade level from kindergarten | ||
| through grade 12 and whose prospective or former students generally | ||
| attend school in a state that borders this state for the grade | ||
| levels the district does not offer; | ||
| (2) serves both students residing in this state and | ||
| students residing in a state that borders this state who are | ||
| subsequently eligible for in-state tuition rates at institutions of | ||
| higher education in either state regardless of the state in which | ||
| the students reside; and | ||
| (3) shares students with an out-of-state district that | ||
| does not offer competing instructional services. | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) or Sections 42.101, | ||
| 42.102, and 42.103, a school district to which this subsection | ||
| applies, as provided by Subsection (b), that has fewer than 130 | ||
| students in average daily attendance shall be provided an adjusted | ||
| basic allotment on the basis of 130 students in average daily | ||
| attendance if it offers a kindergarten through grade four program | ||
| and has preceding or current year's average daily attendance of at | ||
| least 75 students or is 30 miles or more by bus route from the | ||
| nearest high school district. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2593 was passed by the House on May | ||
| 15, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 5, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2593 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 24, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
