By: Bernal H.B. No. 268
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to transportation services for homeless students.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         
         SECTION 1.  Section 42.155, Education Code, Subsection (g)
  is amended to read as follows:
         (g)  A school district or county that provides special
  transportation services for eligible special education students or
  homeless students as defined by 42 U.S.C. Section 11302 is entitled
  to a state allocation paid on a previous year's cost-per-mile
  basis.  The maximum rate per mile allowable shall be set by
  appropriation based on data gathered from the first year of each
  preceding biennium. Districts may use a portion of their support
  allocation to pay transportation costs, if necessary.  The
  commissioner may grant an amount set by appropriation for private
  transportation to reimburse parents or their agents for
  transporting eligible special education students.  The mileage
  allowed shall be computed along the shortest public road from the
  student's home to school and back, morning and afternoon. The need
  for this type transportation shall be determined on an individual
  basis and shall be approved only in extreme hardship cases.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.