Bill Text: TX HB4303 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 4303 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the adjustment of the average daily attendance of a school district due to a disaster that disrupts in-person attendance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-29 - Referred to Public Education [HB4303 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB4303-Introduced.html

	87R12452 KJE-D

	By: Meyer	H.B. No. 4303



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the adjustment of the average daily attendance of a
	school district due to a disaster that disrupts in-person
	attendance.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 48.006, Education Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (a-1) and amending Subsections (b) and (c) to
	read as follows:
	(a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the commissioner
	shall adjust the average daily attendance of a school district all
	or part of which is located in an area of a disaster declared by the
	president of the United States under the Robert T. Stafford
	Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. Section
	5121 et seq.) or by the governor under Chapter 418, Government Code,
	if in-person attendance in the district is disrupted for at least
	37,800 consecutive instructional minutes due to the disaster.
	(b) An [~~The~~] adjustment under Subsection (a) or (a-1) must
	be sufficient to ensure that the district receives funding
	comparable to the funding that the district would have received if
	the decline in average daily attendance reasonably attributable to
	the impact of the disaster had not occurred.
	(c) The commissioner may make the adjustment under
	Subsection (a) [~~this section~~] for the two-year period following the
	date of the governor's initial proclamation or executive order
	declaring the state of disaster.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.