Bill Text: TX HB4124 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to student enrollment in certain special-purpose districts and the allotment under the public school finance system for those districts.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB4124 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB4124-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 4124 |
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relating to student enrollment in certain special-purpose | ||
districts and the allotment under the public school finance system | ||
for those districts. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 11.351, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
(c) A special-purpose school district established under | ||
this section that is operated by a general academic teaching | ||
institution, as that term is defined by Section 61.003, may: | ||
(1) in enrolling students or creating a waitlist for | ||
student enrollment, prioritize military-connected students, as | ||
that term is defined by Section 25.006(d); and | ||
(2) enroll a student who: | ||
(A) is a dependent of a member of the United | ||
States military; | ||
(B) was previously enrolled in school in this | ||
state; and | ||
(C) does not reside in this state due to a | ||
military deployment or transfer. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 48.053(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) A [ |
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applies is entitled to funding under this chapter as if the district | ||
had no tier one local share for purposes of Section 48.256 for each | ||
student enrolled in the district: | ||
(1) who resides in this state; or | ||
(2) who: | ||
(A) is a dependent of a member of the United | ||
States military; | ||
(B) was previously enrolled in school in this | ||
state; and | ||
(C) does not reside in this state due to a | ||
military deployment or transfer. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 4124 was passed by the House on May | ||
14, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 126, Nays 19, 2 present, not | ||
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
H.B. No. 4124 on May 28, 2021, and requested the appointment of a | ||
conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
on H.B. No. 4124 on May 30, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 110, | ||
Nays 33, 0 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 4124 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 26, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
4124 on May 30, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |