Bill Text: TX HB2819 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a grant program for school districts to provide career and technology education courses in the summer and to a study on the grant program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-12 - Referred to Public Education [HB2819 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2819-Introduced.html
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| By: Lambert | H.B. No. 2819 | |
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| relating to a grant program for school districts to provide career | ||
| and technology education courses in the summer and to a study on the | ||
| grant program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 29, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Sections 29.194 and 29.1941 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 29.194. SUMMER CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION GRANT | ||
| PROGRAM. (a) From funds appropriated or available for the purpose, | ||
| the commissioner, in cooperation with an appropriate private | ||
| entity, shall establish a grant program to provide funding to | ||
| school districts for career and technology education courses | ||
| offered during the summer. | ||
| (b) The commissioner may solicit and accept gifts, | ||
| donations, or other contributions for the grant program established | ||
| under this section. | ||
| (c) The commissioner may adopt rules as necessary to | ||
| implement this section. | ||
| Sec. 29.1941. STUDY ON SUMMER CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY | ||
| EDUCATION GRANT PROGRAM. (a) From funds appropriated or available | ||
| for the purpose, the commissioner, in cooperation with an | ||
| appropriate private entity, shall conduct a study regarding the | ||
| summer career and technology education grant program established | ||
| under Section 29.194. The study must analyze: | ||
| (1) the success of the grant program; | ||
| (2) the feasibility of expanding the grant program, | ||
| including by funding career and technology education courses | ||
| offered during the summer through the Foundation School Program; | ||
| (3) the potential demand for career and technology | ||
| education courses during the summer; | ||
| (4) any future funding needs for the grant program or | ||
| for providing career and technology education courses during the | ||
| summer; and | ||
| (5) any other matter the commissioner determines | ||
| appropriate. | ||
| (b) Not later than December 1, 2020, the commissioner shall | ||
| submit to the governor and the members of the legislature a report | ||
| on the results of the study and any recommendations for legislative | ||
| or other action. | ||
| (c) The commissioner may solicit and accept gifts, | ||
| donations, or other contributions for the study and report under | ||
| this section. | ||
| (d) This section expires September 1, 2021. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 29.194, Education Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, applies beginning with the 2019-2020 school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
