Bill Text: TX HB374 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to use of compensatory education allotment funding to provide assistance to students at risk of dropping out of school who are pregnant or who are parents and requiring reporting through the Public Education Information Management System.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-08-09 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB374 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB374-Introduced.html
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By: Howard | H.B. No. 374 |
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relating to use of compensatory education allotment funding to | ||
provide assistance to students at risk of dropping out of school who | ||
are pregnant or who are parents and requiring reporting through the | ||
Public Education Information Management System. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 42.152, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (c-3) and (c-4) to read as follows: | ||
(c-3) Notwithstanding Subsection (c), funds allocated under | ||
this section may be used to: | ||
(1) provide child-care services or assistance with | ||
child-care expenses for students at risk of dropping out of school, | ||
as described by Section 29.081(d)(5); or | ||
(2) pay the costs associated with services provided | ||
through a life skills program in accordance with Sections | ||
29.085(b)(1) and (3)-(7). | ||
(c-4) Not later than January 1, 2018, the commissioner shall | ||
adopt rules requiring the Public Education Information Management | ||
System (PEIMS) to include pregnancy as a reason a student withdraws | ||
from or otherwise no longer attends public school. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017, if this | ||
Act 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 to take effect | ||
September 1, 2017, this Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
last day of the legislative session. |