By: Middleton, Campbell S.B. No. 2497
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the bilingual education allotment under the public
  school finance system.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 29.054, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
         (e)  Notwithstanding Section 29.066(c), the agency may
  require, for purposes of implementing Section 48.105, a school
  district that is granted an exception under this section to:
               (1)  include in the district's Public Education
  Information Management System (PEIMS) report additional
  information specified by the agency and relating to the alternative
  language education methods used by the district; and
               (2)  classify the alternative language education
  method used by the district under the Public Education Information
  Management System (PEIMS) report as specified by the agency.
         SECTION 2.  Section 48.105, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) to read as follows:
         (a-1)  The agency shall review school districts that offer
  alternative language methods approved by the agency under Section
  29.054(d) and approve districts to receive the allotment under
  Subsection (a-2) for that biennium in a manner that provides not
  more than $10 million total under the allotment to school districts
  in each biennium.  In approving school districts to receive the
  allotment under this subsection, the agency shall, to the extent
  possible, approve eligible school districts from a cross section of
  this state.
         (a-2)  For each student in average daily attendance in an
  alternative language method approved by the agency under Section
  29.054(d), and offered by a school district approved to receive the
  allotment under Subsection (a-1), the district is entitled to an
  annual allotment equal to the basic allotment multiplied by:
               (1)  0.15 for an emergent bilingual student, as defined
  by Section 29.052, if the student is in an alternative language
  method using a dual language immersion/one-way or two-way program
  model; and 
               (2)  0.05 for a student not described by Subdivision
  (1), if the student is in an alternative language method using a
  dual language immersion/two-way program model.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.