Bill Text: TX HB806 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to funding for public school career and technology programs.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-12 - Left pending in committee [HB806 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB806-Introduced.html
  83R4611 EAH-F
 
  By: Cortez H.B. No. 806
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to funding for public school career and technology
  programs.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 42.154(a) and (c), 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
  in grades eight [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 classes for a total of three or more credits; or
                     (B)  an advanced course as part of a tech-prep
  program under Subchapter T, Chapter 61.
         (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 in grades eight [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.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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