Bill Text: TX HB67 | 2011 | 82nd Legislature 1st Special | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the entitlement of school districts and open-enrollment charter schools to a certain funding level and to the appropriation of money from the economic stabilization fund to be used for public education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-09 - Referred to Public Education [HB67 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB67-Introduced.html
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| By: Gallego | H.B. No. 67 | |
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| relating to the entitlement of school districts and open-enrollment | ||
| charter schools to a certain funding level and to the appropriation | ||
| of money from the economic stabilization fund to be used for public | ||
| education. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as the Save Our Schools | ||
| Act. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 42, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 42.2532 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 42.2532. ENTITLEMENT TO FUNDING LEVELS PROVIDED DURING | ||
| THE 2010-2011 SCHOOL YEAR. Notwithstanding any other provision of | ||
| this chapter, each school district and open-enrollment charter | ||
| school is entitled to receive at least the amount of state and local | ||
| maintenance and operations funding per student in weighted average | ||
| daily attendance that the district would be entitled to receive | ||
| under this chapter as it existed on January 1, 2011. | ||
| SECTION 3. In addition to amounts appropriated to the Texas | ||
| Education Agency for the Foundation School Program by S.B. 2, Acts | ||
| of the 82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, or similar | ||
| legislation, the amount necessary to provide school districts and | ||
| open-enrollment charter schools with the full amount of funding to | ||
| which they are entitled under Section 42.2532, Education Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, for the state fiscal biennium beginning | ||
| September 1, 2011, as determined by the commissioner of education | ||
| in consultation with the Legislative Budget Board, is appropriated | ||
| from the economic stabilization fund to the Texas Education Agency | ||
| for the Foundation School Program under Chapter 42, Education Code. | ||
| SECTION 4. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails | ||
| over another Act of the 82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, | ||
| regardless of the relative dates of enactment. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect only if it receives a vote | ||
| of two-thirds of the members present in each house of the | ||
| legislature, as provided by Section 49-g(m), Article III, Texas | ||
| Constitution. | ||
| SECTION 6. 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. | ||
