Bill Text: TX SB292 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to expansion of a pilot program under the foundation school program for funding prekindergarten programs provided by certain school districts with early high school graduation programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-07 - Referred to Education [SB292 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB292-Introduced.html

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86R2227 MEW-D
By: Lucio S.B. No. 292

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to expansion of a pilot program under the foundation
school program for funding prekindergarten programs provided by
certain school districts with early high school graduation
programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.2527(a), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) As a pilot program to enable the state to evaluate the
benefit of providing additional funding at the prekindergarten
level for low-income students, the commissioner shall provide
prekindergarten funding in accordance with this section to a school
district located in the regional boundaries of the Region 1
education service center [a county that borders the United Mexican
States and the Gulf of Mexico].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.