Bill Text: TX HB395 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the career and technology education allotment and the essential knowledge and skills of the career and technology education and technology applications curriculums.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-07 - Left pending in committee [HB395 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB395-Introduced.html

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85R3707 MEW-D
By: Bell H.B. No. 395

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the career and technology education allotment and the
essential knowledge and skills of the career and technology
education and technology applications curriculums.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 42.154(a), (b), (c), and (e), Education
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) For each full-time equivalent student in average daily
attendance in an approved career and technology education program
or an approved technology applications course in grades nine
through 12 or in career and technology education programs for
students with disabilities in grades seven through 12, a district
is entitled to:
(1) an annual allotment equal to the adjusted basic
allotment multiplied by a weight of 1.35; and
(2) $50, if the student is enrolled in:
(A) two or more advanced career and technology
education courses [classes] for a total of three or more credits;
(B) two or more advanced technology applications
courses for a total of three or more credits; or
(C) [(B)] an advanced course as part of a
tech-prep program under Subchapter T, Chapter 61.
(b) In this section, "full-time equivalent student" means
30 hours of contact a week between a student and career and
technology education program or technology applications personnel.
(c) Funds allocated under this section, other than an
indirect cost allotment established under State Board of Education
rule, must be used in providing career and technology education
programs and technology applications courses in grades nine through
12 or career and technology education programs for students with
disabilities in grades seven through 12 under Sections 29.182,
29.183, and 29.184.
(e) Out of the total statewide allotment [for career and
technology education] under this section, the commissioner shall
set aside an amount specified in the General Appropriations Act,
which may not exceed an amount equal to one percent of the total
amount appropriated, to support regional career and technology
education planning. After deducting the amount set aside under
this subsection from the total amount appropriated for career and
technology education and technology applications under this
section, the commissioner shall reduce each district's tier one
allotments in the same manner described for a reduction in
allotments under Section 42.253.
SECTION 2. Section 42.101(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) For each student in average daily attendance, not
including the time students spend each day in special education
programs in an instructional arrangement other than mainstream
programs, [or] career and technology education programs, or
technology applications courses, for which an additional allotment
is made under Subchapter C, a district is entitled to an allotment
equal to the lesser of $4,765 or the amount that results from the
following formula:
A = $4,765 X (DCR/MCR)
where:
"A" is the allotment to which a district is entitled;
"DCR" is the district's compressed tax rate, which is the
product of the state compression percentage, as determined under
Section 42.2516, multiplied by the maintenance and operations tax
rate adopted by the district for the 2005 tax year; and
"MCR" is the state maximum compressed tax rate, which is the
product of the state compression percentage, as determined under
Section 42.2516, multiplied by $1.50.
SECTION 3. Not later than March 1, 2019, the State Board of
Education shall:
(1) conduct a review of the essential knowledge and
skills of the career and technology and technology applications
curriculums; and
(2) amend the board's rules in the Texas
Administrative Code to consolidate the technology applications
courses for grades nine through 12 in 19 T.A.C. Chapter 126,
Subchapter C, with the career and technology courses in 19 T.A.C.
Chapter 130, and eliminate duplicative courses while ensuring
certifications are aligned with the rigor of each individual
course.
SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018
school year.
SECTION 5. 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.