By: Buckley, Cain, Frank (Senate Sponsor - Paxton) H.B. No. 3708

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 2023; May 16, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Education; May 22, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 3; May 22, 2023, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to creating an allotment under the Foundation School Program for school districts that allow non-enrolled students to participate in University Interscholastic League activities.

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

SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 48, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 48.305 to read as follows:

Sec. 48.305. ALLOTMENT FOR NON-ENROLLED STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN UNIVERSITY INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE ACTIVITIES. (a) In this section, "non-enrolled student" means a student who receives instruction as described by Section 29.916(a)(1) from a nonpublic school.

(b) For each non-enrolled student who participates in a University Interscholastic League activity for a school in a school district that allows participation of non-enrolled students under Section 33.0832, as added by Chapter 996 (H.B. 547), Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, the district is entitled to an annual allotment of $1,500 per league activity in which the non-enrolled student participates.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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