Bill Text: TX HB731 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a pilot program under the foundation school program for funding prekindergarten programs provided by certain school districts with early high school graduation programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB731 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB731-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 731 | ||
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| relating to a pilot program under the foundation school program for | ||
| funding prekindergarten programs provided by certain school | ||
| districts with early high school graduation programs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 42, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 42.2527 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 42.2527. ADJUSTMENT FOR CERTAIN DISTRICTS WITH EARLY | ||
| HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION PROGRAMS. (a) As a pilot program to enable | ||
| the state to evaluate the benefit of providing additional funding | ||
| at the prekindergarten level for low-income students, the | ||
| commissioner shall provide prekindergarten funding in accordance | ||
| with this section to a school district located in a county that | ||
| borders the United Mexican States and the Gulf of Mexico. | ||
| (b) The commissioner shall provide funding for a school | ||
| district's prekindergarten program on a half-day basis for a number | ||
| of low-income prekindergarten students equal to twice the number of | ||
| students who received, as a result of participation in an early high | ||
| school graduation program operated by the district, a high school | ||
| diploma from the district during the preceding school year after | ||
| three years of secondary school attendance. | ||
| (c) The commissioner may adopt rules necessary to implement | ||
| this section. | ||
| (d) This section expires September 1, 2023. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 731 was passed by the House on May 15, | ||
| 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 119, Nays 20, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 731 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 24, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 23, Nays 7. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
