By: Deshotel (Senate Sponsor - Creighton) H.B. No. 771

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2015; May 11, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Education; May 21, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 21, 2015, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to funding for the Texas Academy of Leadership in the Humanities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 96.707(k), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(k) For each student enrolled in the academy, the academy is entitled to allotments from the Foundation School Program under Chapter 42 as if the academy were a school district without a tier one local share for purposes of Section 42.253 [, except that the academy has a local share applied that is equivalent to the local fund assignment of the Beaumont Independent School District].

SECTION 2. Section 96.707(k), Education Code, as amended by this Act, applies beginning with the 2015-2016 academic year.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.

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