Relating to measures to support public school students at risk of dropping out of school, including average daily attendance for the optional flexible school day program and the dropout recovery school and residential placement facility allotment under the Foundation School Program.

89(R) HB 3622 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

89R23980 KJE-F

By: Landgraf

H.B. No. 3622

Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3622:

By: Buckley

C.S.H.B. No. 3622

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to measures to support public school students at risk of

dropping out of school, including average daily attendance for the

optional flexible school day program and the dropout recovery

school and residential placement facility allotment under the

Foundation School Program.

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

SECTION 1. Section 29.0822, Education Code, is amended by

amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (d-2) to read as

follows:

(d) The commissioner may adopt rules for the administration

of this section, including rules establishing application

requirements. Subject to
Subsections
[
Subsection
] (d-1)
and (d-2)
,

the commissioner shall calculate average daily attendance for

students served under this section. The commissioner shall allow

accumulations of hours of instruction for students whose schedule

would not otherwise allow full state funding. Funding under this

subsection shall be determined based on the number of instructional

days in the school district calendar and a seven-hour school day,

but attendance may be cumulated over a school year, including any

summer or vacation session. The attendance of students who

accumulate less than the number of attendance hours required under

this subsection shall be proportionately reduced for funding

purposes. The commissioner may:

(1) set maximum funding amounts for an individual

course under this section; and

(2) limit funding for the attendance of a student

described by Subsection (a)(3) in a course under this section to

funding only for the attendance necessary for the student to earn

class credit that, as a result of attendance requirements under

Section 25.092, the student would not otherwise be able to receive

without retaking the class.

(d-2)

In calculating average daily attendance for students

served under this section, the commissioner may not limit the

number of hours of instruction that may be accumulated by a student

in a particular reporting period, except that the total number of

hours of instruction accumulated by a student for a school year may

not exceed the equivalent of one student in average daily

attendance with a 100 percent attendance rate for that school year.

SECTION 2. Section 48.153, Education Code, is amended to

read as follows:

Sec. 48.153. DROPOUT RECOVERY SCHOOL AND RESIDENTIAL

PLACEMENT FACILITY ALLOTMENT. A school district or open-enrollment

charter school is entitled to
$500
[
$275
] for each student in

average daily attendance who:

(1) resides in a residential placement facility; [
or
]

(2)
is provided services by a private or public

community-based dropout recovery education program or education

management organization described by Section 29.081(e) while the

student is enrolled at the district or school campus in whose

attendance zone or geographic area served the student resides; or

(3)
is at a district or school or a campus of the

district or school that is designated as a dropout recovery school

under Section 39.0548.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.