Bill Text: TX SB2142 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Engrossed


Bill Title: Relating to the repeal of the high school allotment under the Foundation School Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-12 - Referred to Public Education [SB2142 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB2142-Engrossed.html
 
 
  By: Taylor of Galveston S.B. No. 2142
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the repeal of the high school allotment under the
  Foundation School Program.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 29.918(a) and (b), Education Code, are
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  Notwithstanding Section [39.234 or] 42.152, a school
  district or open-enrollment charter school with a high dropout
  rate, as determined by the commissioner, must submit a plan to the
  commissioner describing the manner in which the district or charter
  school intends to use the compensatory education allotment under
  Section 42.152 [and the high school allotment under Section 42.160]
  for developing and implementing research-based strategies for
  dropout prevention.  The district or charter school shall submit
  the plan not later than December 1 of each school year preceding the
  school year in which the district or charter school will receive the
  compensatory education allotment [or high school allotment] to
  which the plan applies.
         (b)  A school district or open-enrollment charter school to
  which this section applies may not spend or obligate more than 25
  percent of the district's or charter school's compensatory
  education allotment [or high school allotment] unless the
  commissioner approves the plan submitted under Subsection (a).  The
  commissioner shall complete an initial review of the district's or
  charter school's plan not later than March 1 of the school year
  preceding the school year in which the district or charter school
  will receive the compensatory education allotment [or high school
  allotment] to which the plan applies.
         SECTION 2.  Section 39.0233(a), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a)  The agency, in coordination with the Texas Higher
  Education Coordinating Board, shall adopt a series of questions to
  be included in an end-of-course assessment instrument administered
  under Section 39.023(c) to be used for purposes of Section 51.3062.  
  The questions adopted under this subsection must be developed in a
  manner consistent with any college readiness standards adopted
  under Section [Sections 39.233 and] 51.3062.
         SECTION 3.  Section 42.302(a), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  Each school district is guaranteed a specified amount
  per weighted student in state and local funds for each cent of tax
  effort over that required for the district's local fund assignment
  up to the maximum level specified in this subchapter.  The amount of
  state support, subject only to the maximum amount under Section
  42.303, is determined by the formula:
  GYA = (GL X WADA X DTR X 100) - LR
  where:
         "GYA" is the guaranteed yield amount of state funds to be
  allocated to the district;
         "GL" is the dollar amount guaranteed level of state and local
  funds per weighted student per cent of tax effort, which is an
  amount described by Subsection (a-1) or a greater amount for any
  year provided by appropriation;
         "WADA" is the number of students in weighted average daily
  attendance, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the school
  district's allotments under Subchapters B and C, less any allotment
  to the district for transportation, any allotment under Section
  42.158 [or 42.160], and 50 percent of the adjustment under Section
  42.102, by the basic allotment for the applicable year;
         "DTR" is the district enrichment tax rate of the school
  district, which is determined by subtracting the amounts specified
  by Subsection (b) from the total amount of maintenance and
  operations taxes collected by the school district for the
  applicable school year and dividing the difference by the quotient
  of the district's taxable value of property as determined under
  Subchapter M, Chapter 403, Government Code, or, if applicable,
  under Section 42.2521, divided by 100; and
         "LR" is the local revenue, which is determined by multiplying
  "DTR" by the quotient of the district's taxable value of property as
  determined under Subchapter M, Chapter 403, Government Code, or, if
  applicable, under Section 42.2521, divided by 100.
         SECTION 4.  The following provisions of the Education Code
  are repealed:
               (1)  Section 29.097(g);
               (2)  Section 29.098(e);
               (3)  Section 39.233;
               (4)  Section 39.234; and
               (5)  Section 42.160.
         SECTION 5.  It is the intent of the legislature in repealing
  by this Act the high school allotment under Section 42.160,
  Education Code, that the funding that would otherwise have been
  allocated for that allotment be used to increase the amount of
  funding for the basic allotment under Section 42.101, Education
  Code, in the General Appropriations Act.
         SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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