Bill Text: TX HB315 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a grant available to school districts to provide services to students residing in care and treatment facilities and residential placement facilities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-15 - Referred to Public Education [HB315 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB315-Introduced.html
| By: Johnson of Harris | H.B. No. 315 | |
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| relating to a grant available to school districts to provide | ||
| services to students residing in care and treatment facilities and | ||
| residential placement facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 29.0181 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 29.0181. GRANT PROGRAM TO EDUCATE STUDENTS RESIDING IN | ||
| CARE AND TREATMENT FACILITIES. (a) This section applies to a | ||
| student residing in a care and treatment facility, other than a | ||
| state school, or residential placement facility whose parent or | ||
| person standing in parental relation to the student does not reside | ||
| in the school district providing education services to the student. | ||
| (b) From funds appropriated for the purposes of this | ||
| section, federal funds, or any other funds available, the | ||
| commissioner shall make grants available to school districts to | ||
| assist districts in covering the cost of educating students | ||
| residing in care and treatment facilities or residential placement | ||
| facilities. | ||
| (c) A school district is eligible to apply for a grant under | ||
| this section if: | ||
| (1) the district does not receive sufficient funds, | ||
| including state funds provided under Sections 42.151 and 42.152, | ||
| and federal funds, for a student residing in a care and treatment | ||
| facility or residential placement facility to pay for the education | ||
| services provided to the student; or | ||
| (2) the district does not receive sufficient funds, | ||
| including state funds provided under Sections 42.151 and 42.152, | ||
| and federal funds, for all students in the district residing in care | ||
| and treatment facilities or residential placement facilities to pay | ||
| for the education services provided to the students. | ||
| (d) A school district that applies for a grant under this | ||
| section must provide the commissioner with a report comparing the | ||
| state and federal funds received by the district for students | ||
| residing in care and treatment facilities and residential placement | ||
| facilities with the expenses incurred by the district in providing | ||
| education services to students residing in care and treatment | ||
| facilities and residential placement facilities. | ||
| (e) Expenses that may be included by a school district in | ||
| applying for a grant under this section include the cost of training | ||
| personnel to provide education services to a student residing in a | ||
| care and treatment facility or a residential placement facility. | ||
| (f) A school district that receives a grant under this | ||
| section must educate students residing in care and treatment | ||
| facilities and residential placement facilities in the least | ||
| restrictive environment that is appropriate to meet the student's | ||
| educational needs. | ||
| (g) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to | ||
| administer this section. | ||
| 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. | ||
