Bill Text: TX SB496 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to Foundation School Program funding for certain students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2015-06-20 - Vetoed by the Governor [SB496 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB496-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 496 |
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relating to Foundation School Program funding for certain students. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 29.0822, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a), (b), and (d) and adding Subsection (d-1) | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) Notwithstanding Section 25.081 or 25.082, a school | ||
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(1) students who have dropped out of school or are at | ||
risk of dropping out of school as defined by Section 29.081; | ||
(2) students who attend a campus that is implementing | ||
an innovative redesign of the campus or an early college high school | ||
under a plan approved by the commissioner; [ |
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(3) students who, as a result of attendance | ||
requirements under Section 25.092, will be denied credit for one or | ||
more classes in which the students have been enrolled; or | ||
(4) a campus or campuses that would benefit from the | ||
program. | ||
(b) To enable a school district to provide a program under | ||
this section that meets the needs of students described by | ||
Subsection (a), a school district [ |
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(1) provide flexibility in the number of hours each | ||
day a student attends; | ||
(2) provide flexibility in the number of days each | ||
week a student attends; or | ||
(3) allow a student to enroll in less than or more than | ||
a full course load. | ||
(d) The commissioner may adopt rules for the administration | ||
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shall calculate average daily attendance for students served under | ||
this section. The commissioner shall allow accumulations of hours | ||
of instruction for students whose schedule would not otherwise | ||
allow full state funding. Funding under this subsection shall be | ||
determined based on the number of instructional days in the school | ||
district calendar and a seven-hour school day, but attendance may | ||
be cumulated over a school year, including any summer or vacation | ||
session. The attendance of students who accumulate less than the | ||
number of attendance hours required under this subsection shall be | ||
proportionately reduced for funding purposes. The commissioner | ||
may: | ||
(1) set maximum funding amounts for an individual | ||
course under this section; and | ||
(2) limit funding for the attendance of a student | ||
described by Subsection (a)(3) in a course under this section to | ||
funding only for the attendance necessary for the student to earn | ||
class credit that, as a result of attendance requirements under | ||
Section 25.092, the student would not otherwise be able to receive | ||
without retaking the class. | ||
(d-1) In calculating average daily attendance for students | ||
served under this section, the commissioner shall ensure that | ||
funding for attendance in a course in a program under this section | ||
is based on the same instructional hour requirements of the regular | ||
program rather than a full-time equivalent student basis that | ||
requires six hours of student contact time to qualify for a full day | ||
of attendance. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 42.005(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) In this chapter, average daily attendance is: | ||
(1) the quotient of the sum of attendance for each day | ||
of the minimum number of days of instruction as described under | ||
Section 25.081(a) divided by the minimum number of days of | ||
instruction; | ||
(2) for a district that operates under a flexible year | ||
program under Section 29.0821, the quotient of the sum of | ||
attendance for each actual day of instruction as permitted by | ||
Section 29.0821(b)(1) divided by the number of actual days of | ||
instruction as permitted by Section 29.0821(b)(1); or | ||
(3) for a district that operates under a flexible | ||
school day program under Section 29.0822, the average daily | ||
attendance as calculated by the commissioner in accordance with | ||
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SECTION 3. Section 42.152, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (c-3) and (c-4) to read as follows: | ||
(c-3) Notwithstanding Subsection (c), funds allocated under | ||
this section may be used to: | ||
(1) provide child-care services or assistance with | ||
child-care expenses for students at risk of dropping out of school, | ||
as defined by Section 29.081(d)(5); or | ||
(2) pay the costs associated with services provided | ||
through a life skills program in accordance with Sections | ||
29.085(b)(1) and (3)-(7). | ||
(c-4) Not later than January 1, 2016, the commissioner shall | ||
amend rules regarding the Public Education Information Management | ||
System (PEIMS) to include pregnancy as a reason a student withdraws | ||
from or otherwise no longer attends public school. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2015-2016 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 496 passed the Senate on | ||
May 5, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that the | ||
Senate concurred in House amendments on May 29, 2015, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 496 passed the House, with | ||
amendments, on May 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 139, | ||
Nays 7, one present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |