Bill Text: TX SB786 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 786

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to authorizing school districts to provide funding using money received under the Foundation School Program to community-based organizations for purposes of reimbursing private employers for paid internships provided to certain students in career and technology education programs in the district.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-02-07 - Referred to Education K-16 [SB786 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB786-Introduced.html

	89R1928 AMF-D

	By: Alvarado	S.B. No. 786



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to authorizing school districts to provide funding using
	money received under the Foundation School Program to
	community-based organizations for purposes of reimbursing private
	employers for paid internships provided to certain students in
	career and technology education programs in the district.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 29, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 29.189 to read as follows:
	Sec. 29.189. CONTRACT TO REIMBURSE FOR PAID INTERNSHIP.
	(a) In this section, "community-based organization" has the
	meaning assigned by Section 303.001, Labor Code.
	(b) To encourage private employers to participate with
	school districts in providing career and technology education to
	assist students in developing the knowledge, skills, and
	competencies necessary for a broad range of career opportunities,
	the board of trustees of a school district may contract with a
	community-based organization to:
	(1) match students in grade 11 or 12 who are
	participating in a career and technology education program in the
	district with paid internships or similar programs provided by
	private employers; and
	(2) reimburse private employers for all or part of the
	cost of providing paid internships or similar programs to students
	described by Subdivision (1) using funds provided to the
	community-based organization by the district.
	(c) A contract described by Subsection (b) must:
	(1) require each paid internship or similar program
	provided to the school district's students to primarily promote a
	public purpose of the district relating to career and technology
	education;
	(2) include provisions under which the school district
	is granted sufficient control to ensure that the public purpose
	under Subdivision (1) is accomplished and the district receives a
	benefit from the contract; and
	(3) ensure that each student employed under a paid
	internship or similar program is paid at least the minimum wage
	required by law.
	(d) In providing funds to a community-based organization
	for the purposes of reimbursing a private employer under a contract
	under Subsection (b), the school district may use funds allocated
	to the district for career and technology education under Section
	48.106.
	(e) A community-based organization with which a school
	district contracts under Subsection (b) may serve as the employer
	of record for a student employed under a paid internship or similar
	program provided under a contract described by Subsection (b).
	(f) Completion of a paid internship or similar program
	provided under a contract described by Subsection (b) may satisfy a
	requirement to complete a practicum as part of a school district's
	career and technology education program.
	SECTION 2. Section 48.106(c), Education Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(c) At least 55 percent of the funds allocated under this
	section must be used:
	(1) in providing career and technology education
	programs in grades 7 through 12; or
	(2) in providing funding to a community-based
	organization under a contract entered into under Section 29.189 for
	purposes of reimbursing private employers for providing paid
	internships or similar programs to students in career and
	technology education programs.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.