new allotment pays 75 percent for high-need students

The text as introduced · 444 words

89R11467 MEW-D

By: Menéndez
S.B. No. 1676

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to an allotment for public school students who require

significant resources under the Foundation School Program and the

composition of a school district's threat assessment and safe and

supportive school team.

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

SECTION 1. Section 37.115(d), Education Code, is amended to

read as follows:

(d) The superintendent of the district shall ensure, to the

greatest extent practicable, that the members appointed to each

team have expertise in counseling, behavior management, mental

health and substance use, classroom instruction, special

education, school administration, school safety and security,

emergency management, and law enforcement. Each team must include

at least one mental health professional or behavior specialist. A

team may serve more than one campus of a school district, provided

that each district campus is assigned a team.

SECTION 2. Subchapter G, Chapter 48, Education Code, is

amended by adding Section 48.317 to read as follows:

Sec. 48.317. ALLOTMENT FOR STUDENTS REQUIRING SIGNIFICANT

RESOURCES. (a) A school district is entitled to an allotment for a

student enrolled in the district who requires significant resources

if the district provides to the commissioner evidence of the

district's attempts to serve the student through an increasingly

intense intervention strategy approved by the agency, including:

(1) documented attempts to develop a behavior

improvement plan or behavioral intervention plan for the student;

and

(2) documented efforts at parental engagement.

(b) The amount of an allotment for each student described by

Subsection (a) is an amount equal to 75 percent of the total costs

associated with serving that student.

(c) Not later than June 1 of each year, the commissioner

shall post on the agency's Internet website de-identified

information regarding allotments received by school districts

under this section during the preceding school year, including:

(1) the number of students for whom districts received

allotments;

(2) the types of interventions attempted by districts

to serve students for whom allotments were received; and

(3) the education service center regions in which

students for whom districts received allotments reside.

SECTION 3. Section 37.115(d), Education Code, as amended by

this Act, applies beginning with the 2025-2026 school year.

SECTION 4. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this

section, this Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of

two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by

Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not

receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes

effect September 1, 2025.

(b) Section 48.317, Education Code, as added by this Act,

takes effect September 1, 2025.