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

Texas House Bill 951

Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

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

Download: Texas-2023-HB951-Introduced.html

	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.