Bill Text: TX SB549 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to creating a fine arts allotment under the public school finance system.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-02-03 - Referred to Education K-16 [SB549 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB549-Introduced.html
| By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 549 | |
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| relating to creating a fine arts allotment under the public school | ||
| finance system. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 48, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 48.116 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 48.116. FINE ARTS ALLOTMENT. (a) For each student in | ||
| average daily attendance enrolled in a fine arts education course | ||
| approved by the agency under Subsection (b) in grades 6 through 12, | ||
| a school district is entitled to an annual allotment equal to the | ||
| basic allotment, or, if applicable, the sum of the basic allotment | ||
| and the allotment under Section 48.101 to which the district is | ||
| entitled, multiplied by: | ||
| (1) 1.3 for a student in grades 6 through 8; | ||
| (2) 1.2 for a student in grade 9 or 10; and | ||
| (3) 1.1 for a student in grade 11 or 12. | ||
| (b) The agency shall approve fine arts education courses | ||
| that qualify for the allotment provided under this section. The | ||
| approved courses must include fine arts education courses that: | ||
| (1) are authorized by the State Board of Education, | ||
| including music, art, theater, and dance; | ||
| (2) provide students with the knowledge and skills | ||
| necessary for success in the fine arts; and | ||
| (3) require a student in full-time attendance to | ||
| receive not less than 225 minutes of fine arts instruction per week. | ||
| (c) Of the funds allocated under this section: | ||
| (1) at least 25 percent of the funds allocated under | ||
| Subsection (a)(1) must be used in a manner that prioritizes | ||
| providing fine arts education to students in grades six through | ||
| eight who are eligible for the compensatory education allotment | ||
| under Section 48.104; | ||
| (2) 50 percent of the total funds allocated under this | ||
| section must be used to provide fine arts education courses to | ||
| students in grades six through eight; and | ||
| (3) except as necessary to meet the requirement under | ||
| Subdivision (2), at least 75 percent of funds allocated under | ||
| Subsections (a)(2) and (3) must be used to provide fine arts | ||
| education courses to students in grades 9 through 12. | ||
| (d) The agency shall annually publish a list of fine arts | ||
| courses approved under Subsection (b). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
