Bill Text: TX HB413 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to increased flexibility in the use of the Instructional Materials Allotment
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-18 - Left pending in committee [HB413 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB413-Introduced.html
| By: Bernal | H.B. No. 413 | |
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| relating to increased flexibility in the use of the Instructional | ||
| Materials Allotment | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 31.0211, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (c) 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-source 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 | ||
| (2) pay: | ||
| (A) for training educational personnel directly | ||
| involved in student learning and/or 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 is directly involved in student learning, staff involved in | ||
| addressing the social-emotional health of students or provides | ||
| technical support for the use of technological equipment directly | ||
| involved in student learning. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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. | ||
