Bill Text: TX HB951 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the permissible uses of the compensatory education allotment under the Foundation School Program.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-02 - Referred to Public Education [HB951 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB951-Introduced.html

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88R2985 AMF-D
By: Dutton H.B. No. 951

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the permissible uses of the compensatory education
allotment under the Foundation School Program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 48.104, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsections (k) and (l) and adding Subsection (k-1) to
read as follows:
(k) Subject to Subsection (k-1), at [At] least 55 percent of
the funds allocated under this section must be used to:
(1) fund supplemental programs and services,
including services provided by an instructional coach, designed to
eliminate any disparity in performance on assessment instruments
administered under Subchapter B, Chapter 39, or disparity in the
rates of high school completion between:
(A) students who are educationally disadvantaged
and students who are not educationally disadvantaged; and
(B) students at risk of dropping out of school,
as defined by Section 29.081, and all other students; or
(2) support a program eligible under Title I of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as provided by Pub.
L. No. 103-382 and its subsequent amendments, and by federal
regulations implementing that Act.
(k-1) A school district may not use more than 40 percent of
the funds allocated to the district under this section to pay for:
(1) teacher salaries;
(2) supplemental staff expenses;
(3) additional staff; or
(4) smaller class size.
(l) The commissioner shall adopt rules regarding the use of
funds allocated under this section as provided [described] by
Subsections [Subsection] (k) and (k-1). The rules:
(1) must:
(A) permit a school district to use those funds
for programs and services that reflect the needs of students at each
campus in the district; and
(B) provide for streamlined reporting on the use
of those funds; and
(2) may not prohibit the use of those funds for any
purpose for which the use of those funds was authorized under former
Section 42.152 as that section existed on September 1, 2018.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.