Bill Text: TX SB2341 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the bilingual education allotment under the public school finance system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Education [SB2341 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB2341-Introduced.html

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88R9486 DIO-D
By: Menéndez S.B. No. 2341

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the bilingual education allotment under the public
school finance system.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 48.105(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) For each student in average daily attendance in a
bilingual education or special language program under Subchapter B,
Chapter 29, a district is entitled to an annual allotment equal to
the basic allotment multiplied by:
(1) for an emergent bilingual student, as defined by
Section 29.052:
(A) 0.1; or
(B) 0.15 if the student is in a bilingual
education program using a dual language immersion/one-way or
two-way program model; and
(2) for a student not described by Subdivision (1),
0.05 if the student is in a bilingual education program using a dual
language immersion/one-way or two-way [immersion/two-way] program
model.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.