86R4924 MEW-F
	By: Bell of Montgomery	H.B. No. 963

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the career and technology education and technology
	applications allotment and the essential knowledge and skills of
	the career and technology education and technology applications
	curriculums.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 42.154, Education Code,
	is amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 42.154.  CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY
	APPLICATIONS ALLOTMENT.
	SECTION 2.  Sections 42.154(a), (c), and (e), Education
	Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  For each full-time equivalent student in average daily
	attendance in an approved career and technology education program
	or an approved technology applications course in grades nine
	through 12 or in career and technology education programs for
	students with disabilities in grades seven through 12, a district
	is entitled to:
	(1)  an annual allotment equal to the adjusted basic
	allotment multiplied by a weight of 1.35; and
	(2)  $50, if the student is enrolled in:
	(A)  two or more advanced career and technology
	education courses [classes] for a total of three or more credits; or
	(B)  two or more advanced technology applications
	courses for a total of three or more credits.
	(c)  Funds allocated under this section, other than an
	indirect cost allotment established under State Board of Education
	rule, must be used in providing career and technology education
	programs and technology applications courses in grades nine through
	12 or career and technology education programs for students with
	disabilities in grades seven through 12 under Sections 29.182,
	29.183, and 29.184.
	(e)  Out of the total statewide allotment [for career and
	technology education] under this section, the commissioner shall
	set aside an amount specified in the General Appropriations Act,
	which may not exceed an amount equal to one percent of the total
	amount appropriated, to support regional career and technology
	education planning. After deducting the amount set aside under
	this subsection from the total amount appropriated for career and
	technology education and technology applications under this
	section, the commissioner shall reduce each district's tier one
	allotments in the same manner described for a reduction in
	allotments under Section 42.253.
	SECTION 3.  Section 42.154(b)(2), Education Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(2)  "Full-time equivalent student" means 30 hours of
	contact a week between a student and career and technology
	education program or technology applications personnel.
	SECTION 4.  Section 42.101(a), Education Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(a)  For each student in average daily attendance, not
	including the time students spend each day in special education
	programs in an instructional arrangement other than mainstream
	programs, [or] career and technology education programs, or
	technology applications courses, for which an additional allotment
	is made under Subchapter C, a district is entitled to an allotment
	equal to the lesser of $4,765 or the amount that results from the
	following formula:
	A = $4,765 X (DCR/MCR)
	where:
	"A" is the allotment to which a district is entitled;
	"DCR" is the district's compressed tax rate, which is the
	product of the state compression percentage, as determined under
	Section 42.2516, multiplied by the maintenance and operations tax
	rate adopted by the district for the 2005 tax year; and
	"MCR" is the state maximum compressed tax rate, which is the
	product of the state compression percentage, as determined under
	Section 42.2516, multiplied by $1.50.
	SECTION 5.  Section 42.154(b)(1), Education Code, is
	repealed.
	SECTION 6.  Not later than March 1, 2020, the State Board of
	Education shall:
	(1)  conduct a review of the essential knowledge and
	skills of the career and technology and technology applications
	curriculums; and
	(2)  amend the board's rules in the Texas
	Administrative Code to consolidate the technology applications
	courses for grades nine through 12 in 19 T.A.C. Chapter 126,
	Subchapter C, with the career and technical education courses in 19
	T.A.C. Chapter 130, and eliminate duplicative courses while
	ensuring certifications are aligned with the rigor of each
	individual course.
	SECTION 7.  This Act applies beginning with the 2020-2021
	school year.
	SECTION 8.  This Act takes effect immediately if it 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 for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2019.