Bill Text: TX SB282 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the entitlement of a public school student to transfer to a public school campus with a higher overall performance rating under the school accountability system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-30 - Referred to Education [SB282 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB282-Introduced.html
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| By: Perry | S.B. No. 282 | |
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| relating to the entitlement of a public school student to transfer | ||
| to a public school campus with a higher overall performance rating | ||
| under the school accountability system. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 25, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 25.044 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 25.044. TRANSFER TO CAMPUS WITH HIGHER PERFORMANCE | ||
| RATING. (a) A student may transfer to another public school campus | ||
| as provided by this section if the campus to which the student seeks | ||
| to transfer is assigned an overall performance rating under Section | ||
| 39.054 that is at least two letter grades higher than the overall | ||
| performance rating under Section 39.054 assigned to the campus the | ||
| student would otherwise attend. | ||
| (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a student may | ||
| transfer in accordance with Subsection (a) to another campus in the | ||
| district in which the student resides or to another campus in | ||
| another district. | ||
| (c) A school district shall admit a student entitled to | ||
| transfer under this section to the campus selected by the student | ||
| unless the campus does not have available capacity. A school | ||
| district that receives more requests to transfer to a campus under | ||
| this section than the number of available positions at the campus | ||
| must fill the available positions by lottery. | ||
| (d) After a student transfers to another campus in | ||
| accordance with this section, the student may continue attending | ||
| that campus in subsequent school years regardless of the subsequent | ||
| overall performance ratings under Section 39.054 of the campus to | ||
| which the student transferred and the campus that the student would | ||
| otherwise attend. | ||
| (e) A student who transfers to another campus under this | ||
| section, including a campus in a district other than the district in | ||
| which the student resides, may not be charged tuition. The student | ||
| is included in the average daily attendance of the district in which | ||
| the student attends school. | ||
| (f) The commissioner may adopt rules necessary to implement | ||
| this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 42, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 42.1571 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 42.1571. TRANSFER STUDENT ALLOTMENT. (a) Except as | ||
| provided by Subsection (b), for each student in average daily | ||
| attendance who transfers in accordance with Section 25.044 to a | ||
| campus in a district other than the district in which the student | ||
| resides, the district in which the student attends school is | ||
| entitled to an annual allotment equal to the adjusted basic | ||
| allotment multiplied by a weight of 0.1. | ||
| (b) The total number of allotments under this section to | ||
| which a district is entitled may not exceed the number by which the | ||
| number of students transferring to campuses in the district exceeds | ||
| the number of students who reside in the district and transfer in | ||
| accordance with Section 25.044 to campuses in another district. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2018-2019 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
