Bill Text: TX HB2169 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the bilingual education allotment under the public school finance system.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-09 - Referred to Public Education [HB2169 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2169-Introduced.html
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By: Guerra | H.B. No. 2169 |
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relating to the bilingual education allotment under the public | ||
school finance system. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 29.054, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
(e) Notwithstanding Section 29.066(c), the agency may | ||
require, for purposes of implementing Section 48.105, a school | ||
district that is granted an exception under this section to: | ||
(1) include in the district's Public Education | ||
Information Management System (PEIMS) report additional | ||
information specified by the agency and relating to the alternative | ||
language education methods used by the district; and | ||
(2) classify the alternative language education | ||
method used by the district under the Public Education Information | ||
Management System (PEIMS) report as specified by the agency. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 48.105(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) For each student in average daily attendance in a | ||
bilingual education or special language program under Subchapter B, | ||
Chapter 29, or an alternative language method offered by a school | ||
district and approved by the agency under Section 29.054(d), a | ||
district is entitled to an annual allotment equal to the basic | ||
allotment multiplied by: | ||
(1) for an emergent bilingual student, as defined by | ||
Section 29.052: | ||
(A) 0.1; or | ||
(B) 0.15 if the student is in a bilingual | ||
education program or an alternative language method offered by a | ||
school district and approved by the agency under Section 29.054(d) | ||
using a dual language immersion/one-way or two-way program model; | ||
and | ||
(2) for a student not described by Subdivision (1), | ||
0.05 if the student is in a bilingual education program or an | ||
alternative language method offered by a school district and | ||
approved by the agency under Section 29.054(d) using a dual | ||
language immersion/two-way program model. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |