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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to funding under the transportation allotment for |
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transportation related to career and technology education and the |
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use of transportation allotment funds by school districts to |
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provide prepaid fuel cards to certain students. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Sections 48.151(f) and (l), Education Code, are |
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amended to read as follows: |
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(f) The cost of transporting career and technology |
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education students from a school bus stop to a campus or one campus |
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to another inside a district, from a sending district to another |
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secondary public school for a career and technology program or an |
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area career and technology school or to an approved post-secondary |
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institution under a contract for instruction approved by the |
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agency, or from a school bus stop or district campus to a location |
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at which students are provided work-based learning under the |
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district's career and technology program shall be reimbursed based |
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on the number of actual miles traveled times the district's |
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official extracurricular travel per mile rate as set by the board of |
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trustees and approved by the agency. |
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(l) A school district may, with the funds allotted under |
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this section, provide a bus pass, [or] card for another |
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transportation system, or prepaid fuel card to each student who is |
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eligible to use the regular transportation system of the district |
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but for whom the regular transportation system of the district is |
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not a feasible method of providing transportation, including to a |
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location at which students are provided work-based learning under |
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the district's career and technology program. The commissioner by |
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rule shall provide procedures for a school district to provide bus |
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passes, [or] cards for another transportation system, or prepaid |
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fuel cards to students under this subsection. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |