Bill Text: TX HB374 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced

Texas House Bill 374 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to use of compensatory education allotment funding to provide assistance to students at risk of dropping out of school who are pregnant or who are parents and requiring reporting through the Public Education Information Management System.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-08-09 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB374 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB374-Introduced.html

	85S12182 CAE-D

	By: Howard	H.B. No. 374



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to use of compensatory education allotment funding to
	provide assistance to students at risk of dropping out of school who
	are pregnant or who are parents and requiring reporting through the
	Public Education Information Management System.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 42.152, Education Code, is amended by
	adding Subsections (c-3) and (c-4) to read as follows:
	(c-3) Notwithstanding Subsection (c), funds allocated under
	this section may be used to:
	(1) provide child-care services or assistance with
	child-care expenses for students at risk of dropping out of school,
	as described by Section 29.081(d)(5); or
	(2) pay the costs associated with services provided
	through a life skills program in accordance with Sections
	29.085(b)(1) and (3)-(7).
	(c-4) Not later than January 1, 2018, the commissioner shall
	adopt rules requiring the Public Education Information Management
	System (PEIMS) to include pregnancy as a reason a student withdraws
	from or otherwise no longer attends public school.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017, if this
	Act 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 to take effect
	September 1, 2017, this Act takes effect on the 91st day after the
	last day of the legislative session.