Bill Text: TX SB1305 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to transportation within a school district of a student entitled to a public education grant.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-13 - Referred to Education [SB1305 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB1305-Introduced.html

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83R9131 KKA-D
By: Davis S.B. No. 1305

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to transportation within a school district of a student
entitled to a public education grant.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 29, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 29.2021 to read as follows:
Sec. 29.2021. TRANSPORTATION. The school district in which
a student resides shall:
(1) provide each student attending another school in
the district under this subchapter transportation free of charge to
and from the school the student attends; and
(2) provide each student attending a school in another
district under this subchapter transportation free of charge to and
from the school the student would otherwise attend.
SECTION 2. Section 42.155, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (g-1) and (g-2) to read as follows:
(g-1) A school district that provides transportation
services for students under Section 29.2021(1) to a campus in the
district other than the student's campus of regular attendance is
entitled to a state allocation paid on a previous year's
cost-per-mile basis. The maximum rate per mile allowable shall be
set by appropriation based on data gathered from the first year of
each preceding biennium.
(g-2) Notwithstanding Subsection (g-1), the maximum rate
per mile allowable for the state fiscal biennium ending August 31,
2015, for purposes of that subsection shall be set by appropriation
based on available data. This subsection expires September 1,
2015.
SECTION 3. Section 29.203(f), Transportation Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.