Bill Text: TX HB2199 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to enrollment-based funding for the special education allotment under the Foundation School Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-29 - Filed [HB2199 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB2199-Introduced.html

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89R4990 KJE-D
By: Lambert H.B. No. 2199

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to enrollment-based funding for the special education
allotment under the Foundation School Program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 48, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 48.0055 to read as follows:
Sec. 48.0055. ENROLLMENT-BASED FUNDING. The commissioner
by rule shall establish the method for determining average
enrollment for purposes of funding provided based on average
enrollment under Chapter 46 and this chapter.
SECTION 2. Sections 48.102(a) and (j), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) For each student in average enrollment [daily
attendance] in a special education program under Subchapter A,
Chapter 29, in a mainstream instructional arrangement, 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 1.15. For each full-time equivalent student in
average enrollment [daily attendance] in a special education
program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, in an instructional
arrangement other than a mainstream instructional arrangement, a
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 a weight determined according to instructional
arrangement as follows:
Homebound 5.0
Hospital class 3.0
Speech therapy 5.0
Resource room 3.0
Self-contained, mild and moderate, regular campus 3.0
Self-contained, severe, regular campus 3.0
Off home campus 2.7
Nonpublic day school 1.7
Vocational adjustment class 2.3
(j) A school district that provides an extended year program
required by federal law for special education students who may
regress is entitled to receive funds in an amount equal to 75
percent, or a lesser percentage determined by the commissioner, of
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 for each full-time equivalent student in
average enrollment [daily attendance], multiplied by the amount
designated for the student's instructional arrangement under this
section, for each day the program is provided divided by the number
of days in the minimum school year. The total amount of state
funding for extended year services under this section may not
exceed $10 million per year. A school district may use funds
received under this section only in providing an extended year
program.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.