SRC-TAG H.B. 693 78(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 693
78R12613 CAS-FBy: Van Arsdale (Zaffirini)
Education
5/15/2003
Engrossed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

When a child who desires to participate in the Public Education Grant
(PEG) program,  the school district to which the child chooses to transfer
has the option to reject the child for any reason, provided the rejection
is not due to discrimination.  However, many districts have opted not to
accept any children under the PEG program even when they have room
available. Consequently,  few children are presently attending a public
school under the PEG program. H.B. 693 provides an incentive to school
districts to accept students under the Public Education Grant program by
offering those districts additional funds from the district in which the
student resides.  

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to
a state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Sections 29.203(b) and (g), Education Code, as follows:

(b)  Provides that for each eligible student using a public education
grant to attend school in an attending district, the attending district is
also entitled to funds from the residing district in an amount equal to
the difference between 125 percent of the amount of state aid that the
attending district would receive if the student using the public education
grant lived in the attending district and the amount of state aid that the
attending district receives as a result of the student's attendance in the
attending district. 

 (g)  Defines "attending district" and "residing district."

SECTION 2.  Repealer: Section 29.203(f), Education Code.

SECTION 3.  Effective date: September 1, 2003.