88R6541 JES-F
 
  By: Middleton, Campbell S.B. No. 2497
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  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(a), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  For each student in average daily attendance in a
  bilingual education or special language program under Subchapter B,
  Chapter 29, or an alternative language method offered by a school
  district and approved by the agency under Section 29.054(d), a
  district is entitled to an annual allotment equal to the basic
  allotment multiplied by:
               (1)  for an emergent bilingual student, as defined by
  Section 29.052:
                     (A)  0.1; or
                     (B)  0.15 if the student is in a bilingual
  education program or an alternative language method offered by a
  school district and approved by the agency under Section 29.054(d)
  using a dual language immersion/one-way or two-way program model;
  and
               (2)  for a student not described by Subdivision (1),
  0.05 if the student is in a bilingual education program or an
  alternative language method offered by a school district and
  approved by the agency under Section 29.054(d) using a dual
  language immersion/two-way program model.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.