Bill Text: TX HB1542 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to funding under the transportation allotment for certain special education students.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-09 - Filed [HB1542 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB1542-Introduced.html

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89R5136 GP-D
By: Raymond H.B. No. 1542

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to funding under the transportation allotment for certain
special education students.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 48.151(g), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(g) A school district or county that provides special
transportation services for eligible special education students is
entitled to a state allocation at a [paid on a previous year's
cost-per-mile basis. The] rate of $1.50 per mile or a greater
amount provided [allowable shall be set] by appropriation [based on
data gathered from the first year of each preceding biennium].
Districts may use a portion of their support allocation to pay
transportation costs, if necessary. The commissioner may grant an
amount set by appropriation for private transportation to reimburse
parents or their agents for transporting eligible special education
students. The mileage allowed shall be computed along the shortest
public road from the student's home to school and back, morning and
afternoon. The need for this type of transportation shall be
determined on an individual basis and shall be approved only in
extreme hardship cases.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.