Bill Text: TX SB2084 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 2084

TX State Legislature page for SB2084

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to creating a fine arts allotment under the public school finance system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-04 - Co-author authorized [SB2084 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB2084-Introduced.html



	By: Menéndez	S.B. No. 2084


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to creating a fine arts allotment under the public school
	finance system.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 48, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 48.116 to read as follows:
	Sec. 48.116. FINE ARTS ALLOTMENT. (a) For each student in
	average daily attendance enrolled in a fine arts education course
	approved by the agency under Subsection (b) in grades 6 through 12,
	a school district is entitled to an annual allotment equal to the
	basic allotment, or, if applicable, the sum of the basic allotment
	and the allotment under Section 48.101 to which the district is
	entitled, multiplied by:
	(1) 1.3 for a student in grades 6 through 8;
	(2) 1.2 for a student in grade 9 or 10; and
	(3) 1.1 for a student in grade 11 or 12.
	(b) The agency shall approve fine arts education courses
	that qualify for the allotment provided under this section. The
	approved courses must include fine arts education courses that:
	(1) are authorized by the State Board of Education,
	including music, art, theater, and dance;
	(2) provide students with the knowledge and skills
	necessary for success in the fine arts; and
	(3) require a student in full-time attendance to
	receive not less than 225 minutes of fine arts instruction per week.
	(c) Of the funds allocated under this section:
	(1) at least 25 percent of the funds allocated under
	Subsection (a)(1) must be used in a manner that prioritizes
	providing fine arts education to students in grades six through
	eight who are eligible for the compensatory education allotment
	under Section 48.104;
	(2) 50 percent of the total funds allocated under this
	section must be used to provide fine arts education courses to
	students in grades six through eight; and
	(3) except as necessary to meet the requirement under
	Subdivision (2), at least 75 percent of funds allocated under
	Subsections (a)(2) and (3) must be used to provide fine arts
	education courses to students in grades 9 through 12.
	(d) The agency shall annually publish a list of fine arts
	courses approved under Subsection (b).
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.