SB1676 - 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.

  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.