Bill Text: TX HB3708 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to creating an allotment under the Foundation School Program for school districts that allow non-enrolled students to participate in University Interscholastic League activities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3708 Detail]

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By: Buckley, Cain, Frank (Senate Sponsor - Paxton) H.B. No. 3708
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 2023;
May 16, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 22, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 10, Nays 3; May 22, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to creating an allotment under the Foundation School
Program for school districts that allow non-enrolled students to
participate in University Interscholastic League activities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 48, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 48.305 to read as follows:
Sec. 48.305. ALLOTMENT FOR NON-ENROLLED STUDENTS
PARTICIPATING IN UNIVERSITY INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE ACTIVITIES.
(a) In this section, "non-enrolled student" means a student who
receives instruction as described by Section 29.916(a)(1) from a
nonpublic school.
(b) For each non-enrolled student who participates in a
University Interscholastic League activity for a school in a school
district that allows participation of non-enrolled students under
Section 33.0832, as added by Chapter 996 (H.B. 547), Acts of the
87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, the district is entitled
to an annual allotment of $1,500 per league activity in which the
non-enrolled student participates.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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