By Denny                                               H.B. No. 406
         77R1975 KKA-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to funding of special education programs under the public
 1-3     school finance system.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1. Sections 42.151(a) and (b), Education Code, are
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  For each student in average daily attendance in a
 1-8     special education program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, in a
 1-9     mainstream instructional arrangement, a school district is entitled
1-10     to an annual allotment equal to the adjusted basic allotment
1-11     multiplied by 1.1.  For each full-time equivalent student in
1-12     average daily attendance in a special education program under
1-13     Subchapter A, Chapter 29, in an instructional arrangement other
1-14     than a mainstream instructional arrangement, a district is entitled
1-15     to an annual allotment equal to the adjusted basic allotment
1-16     multiplied by a weight determined according to instructional
1-17     arrangement as follows:
1-18     Homebound ............................................. 5.0
1-19     Hospital class ........................................ 4.0 [3.0]
1-20     Speech therapy ........................................ 5.0
1-21     Resource room ......................................... 3.0
1-22     Self-contained, mild and moderate, regular campus ..... 3.0
1-23     Self-contained, severe, regular campus ................ 3.0
1-24     Off home campus ....................................... 2.7
 2-1     Nonpublic day school .................................. 1.7
 2-2     Vocational adjustment class ........................... 2.3
 2-3           (b)  A special instructional arrangement for students with
 2-4     disabilities residing in care and treatment facilities, other than
 2-5     state schools, whose parents or guardians do not reside in the
 2-6     district providing education services shall be established under
 2-7     the rules of the State Board of Education.  The funding weight for
 2-8     this arrangement shall be 5.0 [4.0] for those students who receive
 2-9     their education service on a local school district campus.  A
2-10     special instructional arrangement for students with disabilities
2-11     residing in state schools shall be established under the rules of
2-12     the State Board of Education with a funding weight of:
2-13                 (1)  4.0 for those students who receive their education
2-14     services on the state school campus; and
2-15                 (2)  5.0 for those students who receive their education
2-16     services on a local school district campus [2.8].
2-17           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.