Bill Text: TX SB822 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a grant program for school districts or open-enrollment charter school campuses that are designated as full-service community schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-01 - Referred to Education [SB822 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB822-Introduced.html
| 88R1031 MEW-D | ||
| By: Johnson | S.B. No. 822 | |
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| relating to the establishment of a grant program for school | ||
| districts or open-enrollment charter school campuses that are | ||
| designated as full-service community schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 33, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 33.910 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 33.910. GRANT PROGRAM FOR FULL-SERVICE COMMUNITY | ||
| SCHOOLS. (a) From funds appropriated or otherwise available for | ||
| that purpose, the commissioner shall establish a program to provide | ||
| grants to school districts and open-enrollment charter schools with | ||
| campuses designated by the commissioner as full-service community | ||
| schools. | ||
| (b) The commissioner may designate a school district or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school campus as a full-service community | ||
| school if the campus provides comprehensive academic, social, and | ||
| health services for students, students' family members, and | ||
| community members that result in improved educational outcomes. | ||
| Services provided by a campus may include: | ||
| (1) high-quality early learning programs and | ||
| services; | ||
| (2) compensatory and remedial education services, | ||
| aligned with academic supports and other enrichment activities to | ||
| provide students with a comprehensive academic program; | ||
| (3) family engagement, including parental | ||
| involvement, parental leadership, family literacy, and parent | ||
| education programs; | ||
| (4) mentoring and other youth development programs; | ||
| (5) community service and service learning | ||
| opportunities; | ||
| (6) programs that provide assistance to students who | ||
| have: | ||
| (A) been chronically absent; | ||
| (B) engaged in truant behavior; or | ||
| (C) been suspended or expelled; | ||
| (7) job training and career counseling services; | ||
| (8) nutrition services and physical activities; | ||
| (9) primary health and dental care services; | ||
| (10) mental health services; | ||
| (11) activities that improve access to and use of | ||
| social service programs; | ||
| (12) programs that promote family financial | ||
| stability; and | ||
| (13) adult education programs, including programs for | ||
| providing instruction in English as a second language to adults. | ||
| (c) The commissioner may solicit and accept gifts, grants, | ||
| and donations from any public or private source for the purposes of | ||
| this section. | ||
| (d) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to | ||
| establish and administer the grant program for full-service | ||
| community schools under this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the Texas Education Agency shall adopt rules for the | ||
| administration of Section 33.910, Education Code, as added by this | ||
| Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2023. | ||
