Bill Text: TX HB601 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the definition of regular eligible student used in determining the transportation allotment under the school finance system for a municipal school district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-22 - Referred to Public Education [HB601 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB601-Introduced.html
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By: Reynolds | H.B. No. 601 |
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relating to the definition of regular eligible student used in | ||
determining the transportation allotment under the school finance | ||
system for a municipal school district. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 42.155(b)(1), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(1) "Regular eligible student" means: | ||
(A) for a system not operated by a municipal | ||
school district, a student who resides two or more miles from the | ||
student's campus of regular attendance, measured along the shortest | ||
route that may be traveled on public roads, and who is not | ||
classified as a student eligible for special education services; | ||
and | ||
(B) for a system operated by a municipal school | ||
district, a student who resides 0.01 or more miles from the | ||
student's campus of regular attendance, measured along the shortest | ||
route that may be traveled on public roads, and who is not | ||
classified as a student eligible for special education services. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 42.155(d), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) A district, other than a municipal school district, or | ||
a county may apply for and on approval of the commissioner receive | ||
an additional amount of up to 10 percent of its regular | ||
transportation allotment to be used for the transportation of | ||
children living within two miles of the school they attend who would | ||
be subject to hazardous traffic conditions if they walked to | ||
school. Each board of trustees shall provide to the commissioner | ||
the definition of hazardous conditions applicable to that district | ||
and shall identify the specific hazardous areas for which the | ||
allocation is requested. A hazardous condition exists where no | ||
walkway is provided and children must walk along or cross a freeway | ||
or expressway, an underpass, an overpass or a bridge, an | ||
uncontrolled major traffic artery, an industrial or commercial | ||
area, or another comparable condition. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |