Bill Text: TX HB5083 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the permissible uses of the allotment for students with dyslexia or related disorders under the Foundation School Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB5083 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB5083-Introduced.html

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88R14501 DIO-F
By: Bowers H.B. No. 5083

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the permissible uses of the allotment for students with
dyslexia or related disorders under the Foundation School Program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 48.103(d), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(d) A school district may use [an amount not to exceed 20
percent of] the allotment provided for a qualifying student under
this section to contract with a private provider to provide
supplemental academic services to the student that are recommended
under the student's program or plan described by Subsection (b). A
student may not be excused from school to receive supplemental
academic services provided under this subsection.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.