Bill Text: TX HB397 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 397 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to acceptable uses by a school district of the instructional materials and technology allotment.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-26 - Left pending in committee [HB397 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB397-Introduced.html

	86R1527 CAE-F

	By: VanDeaver	H.B. No. 397



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to acceptable uses by a school district of the
	instructional materials and technology allotment.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 31.0211(c), Education Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(c) Subject to Subsection (d), funds allotted under this
	section may be used to:
	(1) purchase:
	(A) materials on the list adopted by the
	commissioner, as provided by Section 31.0231;
	(B) instructional materials, regardless of
	whether the instructional materials are on the list adopted under
	Section 31.024;
	(C) consumable instructional materials,
	including workbooks;
	(D) instructional materials for use in bilingual
	education classes, as provided by Section 31.029;
	(E) instructional materials for use in college
	preparatory courses under Section 28.014, as provided by Section
	31.031;
	(F) supplemental instructional materials, as
	provided by Section 31.035;
	(G) state-developed open education resource
	instructional materials, as provided by Subchapter B-1;
	(H) instructional materials and technological
	equipment under any continuing contracts of the district in effect
	on September 1, 2011; [~~and~~]
	(I) technological equipment necessary to support
	the use of materials included on the list adopted by the
	commissioner under Section 31.0231 or any instructional materials
	purchased with an allotment under this section; and
	(J) inventory software or systems for storing and
	accessing instructional materials; and
	(2) pay:
	(A) for training educational personnel directly
	involved in student learning in the appropriate use of
	instructional materials and for providing for access to
	technological equipment for instructional use; and
	(B) the salary and other expenses of an employee
	who provides technical support for the use of technological
	equipment directly involved in student learning.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.