Bill Text: TX HB170 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a determination of a school district's assets to liabilities ratio under the public school financial accountability rating system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-10-18 - Filed [HB170 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB170-Introduced.html
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By: Guillen | H.B. No. 170 |
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relating to a determination of a school district's assets to | ||
liabilities ratio under the public school financial accountability | ||
rating system. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 39.082(c), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) The system may not include an indicator under Subsection | ||
(b) or any other performance measure that: | ||
(1) requires a school district to spend at least 65 | ||
percent or any other specified percentage of district operating | ||
funds for instructional purposes; [ |
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(2) lowers the financial management performance | ||
rating of a school district for failure to spend at least 65 percent | ||
or any other specified percentage of district operating funds for | ||
instructional purposes; or | ||
(3) for a school district required to reduce its local | ||
revenue level under Section 48.257, includes in determining the | ||
district's ratio of assets to liabilities any amount required to be | ||
expended by the district to comply with Chapter 49. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2024-2025 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
legislative session. |