Bill Text: TX HB4317 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the incentive for public schools that provide additional instructional days for certain students and the early education allotment under the Foundation School Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-21 - Referred to Public Education [HB4317 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4317-Introduced.html
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By: Dutton | H.B. No. 4317 |
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relating to the incentive for public schools that provide | ||
additional instructional days for certain students and the early | ||
education allotment under the Foundation School Program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 48.0051(a), (b), and (d), Education | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
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shall adjust the average daily attendance of a school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school under Section 48.005 in the manner | ||
provided by Subsection (b) if the district or school: | ||
(1) provides the minimum number of minutes of | ||
operational and instructional time required under Section 25.081 | ||
and commissioner rules adopted under that section over at least 175 | ||
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(2) offers an additional 30 days of half-day | ||
instruction for students enrolled in prekindergarten through fifth | ||
grade. | ||
(b) For a school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
described by Subsection (a), the commissioner shall increase the | ||
average daily attendance of the district or school under Section | ||
48.005 by the amount that results from the quotient of the sum of | ||
attendance by students described by Subsection (a)(2) for each of | ||
the 30 additional instructional days of half-day instruction that | ||
are provided divided by 175 [ |
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(d) This section does not prohibit a school district from | ||
providing the minimum number of minutes of operational and | ||
instructional time required under Section 25.081 and commissioner | ||
rules adopted under that section over fewer than 175 [ |
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instruction. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 48.108, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) In addition to the allotment under Subsection (a), a | ||
school district is entitled to an annual allotment equal to the | ||
basic allotment multiplied by 0.1 for each student in average daily | ||
attendance in a prekindergarten class who meets the eligibility | ||
requirements under Section 29.153(b) and is at least four years of | ||
age. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |