By Gray H.B. No. 2947
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to school districts that provide education solely to
1-3 students confined to hospitals.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter N, Education Code, is amended by
1-6 adding a new Section 21.514 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 21.514. School Districts That Provide Education Solely
1-8 to Students Confined to Hospitals. (a) This section only applies
1-9 to school districts that provide education and related services
1-10 solely to students who are confined to hospitals.
1-11 (b) A school district covered under this section shall be
1-12 funded in the manner of an extended year program under Section
1-13 21.562 of this chapter for a period not to exceed 45 days beyond
1-14 the length of the regular school year.
1-15 (c) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code, a
1-16 student whose appropriate educational program is the regular
1-17 education program but who is temporarily classified as a special
1-18 education student due to the student's confinement in a hospital
1-19 and whose education is provided by a district under this section
1-20 may receive services and be counted for attendance purposes for the
1-21 number of hours per week appropriate for the student's condition.
1-22 (d) Students enrolled in a district eligible under this
1-23 section shall have their basic allotment adjusted by the cost of
2-1 education adjustment, determined under Section 16.102 of this code,
2-2 of the independent school district in which the district is
2-3 geographically located and by the weight for a homebound student
2-4 under Subsection 16.151(a) of this code.
2-5 (e) The commissioner of education may adopt rules for the
2-6 administration of this section.
2-7 SECTION 2. Subsection 16.006(a), Education Code, is amended
2-8 to read as follows:
2-9 (a) In this chapter<:>
2-10 <(1) for the 1993-1994 and 1994-1995 school years,
2-11 average daily attendance is determined by the daily attendance as
2-12 averaged each month of the minimum school year as described under
2-13 Section 16.502(a); and>
2-14 <(2) for the 1995-1996 school year and each year
2-15 thereafter,> average daily attendance is the quotient of the sum of
2-16 attendance for each day of the minimum school year as described
2-17 under Section 16.052(a) and for each day approved by the
2-18 commissioner of education for an extended year program under
2-19 Section 21.562 or Section 21.514, divided by the number of days in
2-20 the minimum school year.
2-21 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect on the 31st day following
2-22 the date on which the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, adjourns
2-23 sine die.
2-24 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-4 and that this Act take effect and be enforce according to its
3-5 terms, and it is so enacted.