Bill Text: TX SB2497 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the bilingual education allotment under the public school finance system.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-23 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB2497 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2497-Comm_Sub.html
88R30241 JES-F | ||
By: Middleton, et al. | S.B. No. 2497 | |
(Dutton) | ||
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 2497: No. |
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relating to the bilingual education allotment under the public | ||
school finance system. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 29.054, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
(e) Notwithstanding Section 29.066(c), the agency may | ||
require, for purposes of implementing Section 48.105, a school | ||
district that is granted an exception under this section to: | ||
(1) include in the district's Public Education | ||
Information Management System (PEIMS) report additional | ||
information specified by the agency and relating to the alternative | ||
language education methods used by the district; and | ||
(2) classify the alternative language education | ||
method used by the district under the Public Education Information | ||
Management System (PEIMS) report as specified by the agency. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 48.105, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) and amending Subsection (b) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a-1) The agency shall review school districts that offer | ||
alternative language methods approved by the agency under Section | ||
29.054(d) and approve districts to receive the allotment under | ||
Subsection (a-2) for that biennium in a manner that provides not | ||
more than $10 million total under the allotment to school districts | ||
in each biennium. In approving school districts to receive the | ||
allotment under this subsection, the agency shall, to the extent | ||
possible, approve eligible school districts from a cross section of | ||
this state. | ||
(a-2) For each student in average daily attendance in an | ||
alternative language method approved by the agency under Section | ||
29.054(d), and offered by a school district approved to receive the | ||
allotment under Subsection (a-1), the district is entitled to an | ||
annual allotment equal to the basic allotment multiplied by: | ||
(1) 0.15 for an emergent bilingual student, as defined | ||
by Section 29.052, if the student is in an alternative language | ||
method using a dual language immersion/one-way or two-way program | ||
model; and | ||
(2) 0.05 for a student not described by Subdivision | ||
(1), if the student is in an alternative language method using a | ||
dual language immersion/one-way or two-way program model. | ||
(b) At least 55 percent of the funds allocated under this | ||
section must be used in providing bilingual education or special | ||
language programs under Subchapter B, Chapter 29. A district's | ||
bilingual education or special language allocation may be used only | ||
for program and student evaluation, instructional materials and | ||
equipment, staff development, supplemental staff expenses, teacher | ||
salaries [ |
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associated with providing smaller class sizes, and other supplies | ||
required for quality instruction. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |