By Denny                                              H.B. No. 3237
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to school finance.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.        Sec. 42.151.  Special Education.  (a)  For
 1-5     each student in average daily attendance in a special education
 1-6     program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, in a mainstream
 1-7     instructional arrangement, a school district is entitled to an
 1-8     annual allotment equal to the adjusted basic allotment multiplied
 1-9     by 1.1.  For each full-time equivalent student in average daily
1-10     attendance in a special education program under Subchapter A,
1-11     Chapter 29, in an instructional arrangement other than a mainstream
1-12     instructional arrangement, a district is entitled to an annual
1-13     allotment equal to the adjusted basic allotment multiplied by a
1-14     weight determined according to instructional arrangement as
1-15     follows:
1-16           Homebound.................................................5.0
1-17           Hospital class.......................................[3.0]5.0
1-18           Speech therapy............................................5.0
1-19           Resource room.............................................3.0
1-20           Self-contained, mild and moderate, regular campus.........3.0
1-21           Self-contained, severe, regular campus...............[3.0]4.0
 2-1           Off home campus...........................................2.7
 2-2           Nonpublic day school.................................[1.7]5.0
 2-3           Vocational adjustment class...............................2.3
 2-4           (b)  A special instructional arrangement for students with
 2-5     disabilities residing in care and treatment facilities, other than
 2-6     state schools, whose parents or guardians do not reside in the
 2-7     district providing education services shall be established under
 2-8     the rules of the State Board of Education.  The funding weight for
 2-9     this arrangement shall be [4.0] 5.0 for those students who receive
2-10     their education service on a local school district campus.  A
2-11     special instructional arrangement for students with disabilities
2-12     residing in state schools shall be established under the rules of
2-13     the State Board of Education with a funding weight of [2.8] 5.0.
2-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.