Bills › 91st General Assembly
Modifying provisions related to English learner participation in open enrollment and including applicability provisions
Topics:K–12 education
Same legislation: HF 2363
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 2026
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 14, 2026
- Done: House committeeFebruary 4, 2026
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 2363
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
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What’s in it
AI summary If a parent wants to move their child who is learning English to a different school district, the new school must have a program that fits the student's needs. The receiving school also cannot accept the student if it would make their English learner classes or general classrooms too crowded. Additionally, this law sets the amount of money the student's home district must pay to the new school.1
Read the official explanation
_____ the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. This bill modifies provisions related to English learner participation in open enrollment. The bill provides that if a parent or guardian files a request for an English learner to open enroll, the request shall be granted only if the receiving district maintains a program to provide special instruction to English learners that is appropriate to meet the English learner’s educational needs and the enrollment of the English learner in the receiving district’s special instruction program would not cause the size of the class or caseload in that special instruction program in the receiving district to exceed the maximum class size or caseload, and if the English learner would be assigned to a general education class, there is sufficient classroom space in the general education class to which the English learner would be assigned. The bill establishes the amount that the English learner’s district of residence is required to pay to the receiving district. These provisions apply to open enrollment applications, requests, and notifications filed by a parent or guardian on or after the effective date of the bill.18(7)(b)(1), which describes amounts that districts of residence are required to pay to receiving districts for students who open enroll.
House subcommittee
Named January 14, 2026. On January 29, 2026 it recommended passage.
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Fiscal note
AI summary This bill allows school districts to use specific funding for English Learner students to pay for their transportation, including trips to nonpublic schools. The bill will have no fiscal impact to the state, and any change to the money school districts receive for transportation costs is expected to be minimal.3
From the note: House File 2363 will have no fiscal impact to the State. Any change to the allocation school districts receive from the Transportation School Equity appropriation is expected to be minimal.
- Open Enrollment, English-Language Learners · February 24, 2026
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