Bill Text: TX SB258 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a remote education and distance learning allotment under the Foundation School Program.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-03 - Referred to Education [SB258 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB258-Introduced.html
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| By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 258 | |
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| relating to a remote education and distance learning allotment | ||
| under the Foundation School Program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 48, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 48.157 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 48.157. REMOTE EDUCATION AND DISTANCE LEARNING | ||
| ALLOTMENT. (a) A school district is entitled to an annual allotment | ||
| in the amount provided by appropriation for each student in average | ||
| daily attendance to be used as provided by Subsection (b). | ||
| (b) Funds allocated under this section must be used to | ||
| improve access to remote education and distance learning, including | ||
| to pay the costs associated with remote education and distance | ||
| learning technology. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 12.106(a-4), Education Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a-4) In addition to the funding provided by Subsections | ||
| (a), (a-2), and (a-3), a charter holder is entitled to receive | ||
| funding for the open-enrollment charter school under Sections | ||
| 48.110 and 48.112 and Subchapter D, Chapter 48, other than the | ||
| allotment under Section 48.157, if the charter holder would be | ||
| entitled to the funding if the school were a school district. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
