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.