By: Lucio III (Senate Sponsor - Lucio)	H.B. No. 731
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 18, 2015;
	May 18, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Education; May 22, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:
	Yeas 8, Nays 2; May 22, 2015, sent to printer.)
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	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a pilot program under the foundation school program for
	funding prekindergarten programs provided by certain school
	districts with early high school graduation programs.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 42, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 42.2527 to read as follows:
	Sec. 42.2527.  ADJUSTMENT FOR CERTAIN DISTRICTS WITH EARLY
	HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION PROGRAMS. (a) As a pilot program to enable
	the state to evaluate the benefit of providing additional funding
	at the prekindergarten level for low-income students, the
	commissioner shall provide prekindergarten funding in accordance
	with this section to a school district located in a county that
	borders the United Mexican States and the Gulf of Mexico.
	(b)  The commissioner shall provide funding for a school
	district's prekindergarten program on a half-day basis for a number
	of low-income prekindergarten students equal to twice the number of
	students who received, as a result of participation in an early high
	school graduation program operated by the district, a high school
	diploma from the district during the preceding school year after
	three years of secondary school attendance.
	(c)  The commissioner may adopt rules necessary to implement
	this section.
	(d)  This section expires September 1, 2023.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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