By: West S.B. No. 1431
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to educationally disadvantaged students.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 5.001, Education Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 Sec. 5.001. Definitions.
1-7 In this title:
1-8 (1) "Agency" means the Texas Education Agency.
1-9 (2) "Classroom teacher" means an educator who is
1-10 employed by a school district and who, not less than an average of
1-11 four hours each day, teaches in an academic instructional setting
1-12 or a career and technology instructional setting. The term does
1-13 not include a teacher's aide or a full-time administrator.
1-14 (3) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of
1-15 education.
1-16 (4) "Educationally disadvantaged" means:
1-17 (a) eligible to participate in the national free or
1-18 reduced-price lunch program established under 42 U.S.C. Section
1-19 1751 et seq.;
1-20 (b) enrolled in the state Medicaid program under
1-21 Chapter 32, Human Resources Code; or
1-22 (c) enrolled in the state child health plan program
1-23 under Chapter 62, Health and Safety Code.
2-1 Section 2. Section 42.152(b), Education Code is amended to
2-2 read as follows:
2-3 Sec. 42.152. Compensatory Education Allotment
2-4 (a) For each student who is educationally disadvantaged or
2-5 who is a student who does not have a disability and resides in a
2-6 residential placement facility in a district in which the student's
2-7 parent or legal guardian does not reside, a district is entitled to
2-8 an annual allotment equal to the adjusted basic allotment
2-9 multiplied by 0.2, and by 2.41 for each full-time equivalent
2-10 student who is in a remedial and support program under Section
2-11 29.081 because the student is pregnant.
2-12 (b) For purposes of this section[,]:
2-13 (1) the number of [educationally disadvantaged] students
2-14 eligible for the national school lunch program is determined by
2-15 averaging the best six months' enrollment in the national school
2-16 lunch program of free or reduced-price lunches for the preceding
2-17 school year; and
2-18 (2) the number of students enrolled in the state Medicaid
2-19 program or the state child health plan program is:
2-20 (A) determined based on voluntary disclosure of a
2-21 student's enrollment in one of those programs by the student or the
2-22 student's parent and provision by the student or parent of any
2-23 supporting documentation required by the commissioner; or
2-24 (B) determined in another manner determined by the
2-25 commissioner that complies with any federal or state
2-26 confidentiality requirements applicable to those programs.
3-1 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.