The bonus goes from $2,000 to $4,000 per graduate.
The bill raises the state school-funding bonus a district earns for each special education graduate who shows college, career, or military readiness, from $2,000 to $4,000. It touches Texas school districts and their special education graduates counted under the outcomes bonus formula. Starting September 1, 2025, districts get twice as much bonus money for each qualifying special education graduate above the minimum threshold.
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Labels: ZOMBIE BILL. Died 2 times: 88R HB 4453 (Died in committee) and this bill (Died in committee). Checked against 88R only.BACK FROM THE DEAD. Same text as a bill filed before that died: 88R HB 4453 (Died in committee). Filed in 2 sessions, counting this one. Checked against 88R only.TRY NO. 2. Filed in 2 sessions: 88R and 89R. Checked against 88R only.NEVER GOT A HEARING. Filed Nov 12, 2024 and referred to the House Public Education committee. No public hearing. The bill died.
relating to the college, career, or military readiness outcomes
bonus under the Foundation School Program.
WHAT IT DOES
The bonus goes from $2,000 to $4,000 per graduate.
The bill raises the state school-funding bonus a district earns for each special education graduate who shows college, career, or military readiness, from $2,000 to $4,000. It touches Texas school districts and their special education graduates counted under the outcomes bonus formula. Starting September 1, 2025, districts get twice as much bonus money for each qualifying special education graduate above the minimum threshold.
Data snapshot Oct 26, 2026 at 6:51 AM CDT. Grades, charges, quotes and corrections follow the published record.
House committee · Public Education · Final status: Died in committee
Subjects
Education--Primary & Secondary--Finance
Education--Primary & Secondary--Special
Military & Veterans
FOUNDATION SCHOOL PROGRAM
Text
The text as introduced · 163 words
89R4754 KRM-F
By: Bhojani
H.B. No. 1055
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the college, career, or military readiness outcomes
bonus under the Foundation School Program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 48.110(d), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(d) For each annual graduate in a cohort described by
Subsection (b) who demonstrates college, career, or military
readiness as described by Subsection (f) in excess of the minimum
number of students determined for the applicable district cohort
under Subsection (c), a school district is entitled to an annual
outcomes bonus of:
(1) if the annual graduate is educationally
disadvantaged, $5,000;
(2) if the annual graduate is not educationally
disadvantaged, $3,000; and
(3) if the annual graduate is enrolled in a special
education program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, $4,000 [ $2,000 ],
regardless of whether the annual graduate is educationally
disadvantaged.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.