HBA-CCH H.B. 448 77(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 448
By: Oliveira
Public Education
4/9/2001
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Magnet schools are public schools, owned and operated by school districts,
with a specially designed curriculum for students whose needs are not met
by a traditional district school magnet schools have the potential to pool
students from outside the school's regular service area. Current law
mandates funding allotments for the transportation of a student who resides
two or more miles from a student's campus of regular attendance, measured
along the shortest route that may be traveled on public roads. Therefore,
students who regularly attend a magnet school more than two miles from
their home, but live less than two miles from their regularly assigned
campus are ineligible for the transportation allotment and the school
districts are forced to absorb the cost of transportation for that student.
House Bill 448 reimburses school districts, through the transportation
allotment of the Foundation School Program, the cost of transporting a
student from a campus to a magnet school inside or outside the district. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

ANALYSIS

House Bill 448 amends the Education Code to reimburse school districts,
through the transportation allotment of the Foundation School Program, the
cost of transporting a student from a campus to a magnet school inside or
outside the district.  The bill requires the reimbursement to be determined
by the actual miles traveled multiplied by the district's official
extracurricular travel per mile rate set by the board of trustees and
approved by the Texas Education Agency. 

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2001.