Bill Text: TX SB1522 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the adjustment of the average daily attendance of a school district on the basis of a calamity.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-25 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1522 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1522-Comm_Sub.html
By: Taylor, et al. | S.B. No. 1522 | |
(Allison) | ||
|
||
|
||
relating to the adjustment of the average daily attendance of a | ||
school district on the basis of a calamity. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 48.005(d), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) The commissioner may adjust the average daily | ||
attendance of a school district in which a disaster, flood, extreme | ||
weather condition, fuel curtailment, or other calamity has a | ||
significant effect on the district's attendance. In addition to | ||
providing the adjustment for the amount of instructional days | ||
during the semester in which the calamity first occurred, an | ||
adjustment under this section may only be provided based on a | ||
particular calamity for an additional amount of instructional days | ||
equivalent to one school year. The commissioner may divide the | ||
adjustment between two consecutive school years. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |