By Truan                                               S.B. No. 351
         77R4036 KKA-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to computation of the number of educationally
 1-3     disadvantaged students in public school districts without food
 1-4     service.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 42.152(b), Education Code, is amended to
 1-7     read as follows:
 1-8           (b)  For purposes of this section, the number of
 1-9     educationally disadvantaged students is determined by averaging the
1-10     best six months' enrollment in the national school lunch program of
1-11     free or reduced-price lunches for the preceding school year, except
1-12     that:
1-13                 (1)  in a district that was completely unable to
1-14     participate in the program for the preceding school year because of
1-15     the lack of food service or access to food service, the number of
1-16     educationally disadvantaged students is determined:
1-17                       (A)  by computing the number of district students
1-18     who would have been eligible each month for enrollment in the
1-19     program for the preceding school year and averaging the best six
1-20     months' eligibility for enrollment; or
1-21                       (B)  in a comparable manner determined by
1-22     commissioner rule; and
1-23                 (2)  in a district in which one or more campuses
1-24     participated in the program for the preceding school year but one
 2-1     or more other campuses did not participate because of the lack of
 2-2     food service or access to food service, the number of educationally
 2-3     disadvantaged students is determined by:
 2-4                       (A)  averaging the best six months' enrollment in
 2-5     the  program for the preceding year at the participating campus or
 2-6     campuses;
 2-7                       (B)  computing the participation rate in the
 2-8     program, expressed as the ratio of the average enrollment
 2-9     determined under Paragraph (A) divided by the total average daily
2-10     attendance at the participating campus or campuses for the
2-11     appropriate months; and
2-12                       (C)  multiplying the participation rate by the
2-13     average daily attendance at the campuses that did not participate
2-14     in the program for the appropriate months and adding that sum to
2-15     the average enrollment determined under Paragraph (A).
2-16           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.