TITLE: Relating to the public school finance system.

SUMMARY: Relating to the public school finance system.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to the public school finance system. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Sections 29.918(a) and (b), Education Code, are amended to read as follows: (a) Notwithstanding Section [39.234 or] 42.152, a school district or open-enrollment charter school with a high dropout rate, as determined by the commissioner, must submit a plan to the commissioner describing the manner in which the district or charter school intends to use the compensatory education allotment under Section 42.152 [and the high school allotment under Section 42.160] for developing and implementing research-based strategies for dropout prevention. The district or charter school shall submit the plan not later than December 1 of each school year preceding the school year in which the district or charter school will receive the compensatory education allotment [or high school allotment] to which the plan applies. (b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school to which this section applies may not spend or obligate more than 25 percent of the district's or charter school's compensatory education allotment [or high school allotment] unless the commissioner approves the plan submitted under Subsection (a). The commissioner shall complete an initial review of the district's or charter school's plan not later than March 1 of the school year preceding the school year in which the district or charter school will receive the compensatory education allotment [or high school allotment] to which the plan applies. SECTION 2. Section 39.0233(a), Education Code, is amended to read as follows: (a) The agency, in coordination with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, shall adopt a series of questions to be included in an end-of-course assessment instrument administered under Section 39.023(c) to be used for purposes of Section 51.3062. The questions adopted under this subsection must be developed in a manner consistent with any college readiness standards adopted under Section [Sections 39.233 and] 51.3062. SECTION 3. Section 42.1541(a), Education Code, is amended to read as follows: (a) For the 2017-2018 and subsequent school years, the [The] State Board of Education shall by rule revise [increase] the indirect cost allotments established under Sections 42.151(h), 42.152(c), 42.153(b), and 42.154(c) [42.154(a-1) and (c)] and in effect for the 2016-2017 [2010-2011] school year to reflect any increase in the percentage of total maintenance and operations funding represented by the basic allotment [in proportion to the average percentage reduction in total state and local maintenance and operations revenue provided under this chapter for the 2011-2012 school year] as a result of [S.B. Nos. 1 and 2] Acts of the 85th [82nd] Legislature, Regular [1st Called] Session, 2017 [2011].SECTION 4. The following provisions of the Education Code are repealed: (1) Section 29.097(g); (2) Section 29.098(e); (3) Section 39.233; (4) Section 39.234; (5) Section 42.1541(c); (6) Section 42.160; and (7) Section 42.2513. SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.