Bill Text: TX HB1280 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the distribution to school districts of the annual apportionment of the available school fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB1280 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB1280-Introduced.html

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85R6270 KKA-D
By: González of El Paso H.B. No. 1280

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the distribution to school districts of the annual
apportionment of the available school fund.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.251(b), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) The program shall be financed by:
(1) ad valorem tax revenue generated by an equalized
uniform school district effort;
(2) ad valorem tax revenue generated by local school
district effort in excess of the equalized uniform school district
effort; and
(3) [state available school funds distributed in
accordance with law; and
[(4)] state funds appropriated for the purposes of
public school education and allocated to each district in an amount
sufficient to finance the cost of each district's Foundation School
Program not covered by other funds specified in this subsection.
SECTION 2. Sections 42.253(a) and (c), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) For each school year the commissioner shall determine:
(1) the amount of money to which a school district is
entitled under Subchapters B and C;
(2) the amount of money to which a school district is
entitled under Subchapter F;
(3) [the amount of money allocated to the district
from the available school fund;
[(4)] the amount of each district's tier one local
share under Section 42.252; and
(4) [(5)] the amount of each district's tier two local
share under Section 42.302.
(c) Each school district is entitled to an amount equal to
the difference for that district between the sum of Subsections
(a)(1) and (a)(2) and the sum of Subsections (a)(3) and [,] (a)(4)[,
and (a)(5)].
SECTION 3. Section 43.001, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to read as
follows:
(c) The term "scholastic population" in Subsection (b) or
any other law governing the apportionment, distribution, and
transfer of the available school fund means all students of school
age enrolled in weighted average daily attendance the preceding
school year in the public elementary and high school grades of
school districts within or under the jurisdiction of a county of
this state.
(c-1) The amount provided to a school district as a result
of the annual apportionment of the available school fund in
accordance with Subsection (b) is in addition to amounts to which
the district is entitled under Chapter 42.
SECTION 4. Section 45.259(d), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(d) If money appropriated for the Foundation School Program
is used for purposes of this subchapter and as a result there is
insufficient money to fully fund the Foundation School Program, the
commissioner shall, to the extent necessary, reduce each school
district's foundation school fund allocations[, other than any
portion appropriated from the available school fund,] in the same
manner provided by Section 42.253(h) for a case in which school
district entitlements exceed the amount appropriated. The
following fiscal year, a district's entitlement under Section
42.253 is increased by an amount equal to the reduction under this
subsection.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.