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.