By: Taylor  S.B. No. 1522
         (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2021; March 24, 2021, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 13, 2021,
  reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0;
  April 13, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the adjustment of the average daily attendance of a
  school district on the basis of a calamity.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 48.005(d), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (d)  The commissioner may adjust the average daily
  attendance of a school district in which a disaster, flood, extreme
  weather condition, fuel curtailment, or other calamity has a
  significant effect on the district's attendance.  In addition to
  providing the adjustment for the amount of instructional days
  during the semester in which the calamity first occurred, an
  adjustment under this section may only be provided based on a
  particular calamity for an additional amount of instructional days
  equivalent to one school year.  The commissioner may divide the
  adjustment between two consecutive school years.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
 
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