Bill Text: TX SB5 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 4th Special Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the school safety allotment under the Foundation School Program and the establishment of a school safety grant program; making an appropriation.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 18-9)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-12-05 - Received from the Senate [SB5 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB5-Engrossed.html
| By: Huffman, et al. | S.B. No. 5 | |
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| relating to the school safety allotment under the Foundation School | ||
| Program and the establishment of a school safety grant program; | ||
| making an appropriation. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 37.108(b-1), Education Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (b-1) In a school district's safety and security audit | ||
| required under Subsection (b), the district must certify that the | ||
| district used the funds provided to the district through the school | ||
| safety grant program established under Section 37.1087 and the | ||
| school safety allotment under Section 48.115 only for the purposes | ||
| provided by those sections [ |
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| SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 37.1087 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 37.1087. SCHOOL SAFETY GRANT PROGRAM. (a) From money | ||
| appropriated or otherwise available for the purpose, the | ||
| commissioner shall establish a school safety grant program to | ||
| annually provide grants to school districts and open-enrollment | ||
| charter schools to assist with the cost of complying with Section | ||
| 37.0814. | ||
| (b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
| not receive a grant under the grant program for a district or school | ||
| campus at which only virtual instruction is provided or that uses | ||
| only facilities not subject to the district's or school's control. | ||
| (c) The commissioner may adopt rules necessary to implement | ||
| and administer this section. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 48.115(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), a school | ||
| district is entitled to an annual allotment equal to the sum of the | ||
| following amounts or a greater amount provided by appropriation: | ||
| (1) $20 [ |
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| attendance, plus $1 for each student in average daily attendance | ||
| per every $50 by which the district's maximum basic allotment under | ||
| Section 48.051 exceeds $6,160, prorated as necessary; and | ||
| (2) $30,000 [ |
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| SECTION 4. (a) This section takes effect only if S.B. 2, | ||
| 88th Legislature, 4th Called Session, 2023, becomes law. | ||
| (b) Section 18.78, Article IX, Chapter 1170 (H.B. 1), Acts | ||
| of the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023 (the General | ||
| Appropriations Act), is amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| (c-1) In addition to amounts appropriated elsewhere in this | ||
| Act, the Texas Education Agency is appropriated $400,000,000 from | ||
| the general revenue fund for the state fiscal biennium beginning | ||
| September 1, 2023, for the purpose of the school safety grant | ||
| program established under Section 37.1087, Education Code, as added | ||
| by S.B. 5, 88th Legislature, 4th Called Session, 2023. | ||
| SECTION 5. (a) This section takes effect only if S.B. 2, | ||
| 88th Legislature, 4th Called Session, 2023, does not become law. | ||
| (b) Section 18.78, Article IX, Chapter 1170 (H.B. 1), Acts | ||
| of the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023 (the General | ||
| Appropriations Act), is amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| (c-1) In addition to amounts appropriated elsewhere in this | ||
| Act, the Texas Education Agency is appropriated $800,000,000 from | ||
| the general revenue fund for the state fiscal biennium beginning | ||
| September 1, 2023, for the purpose of implementing S.B. 5, 88th | ||
| Legislature, 4th Called Session, 2023. Of the amount appropriated | ||
| in this subsection, the agency shall use: | ||
| (1) $400,000,000 for the school safety grant program | ||
| established under Section 37.1087, Education Code, as added by that | ||
| Act; and | ||
| (2) $400,000,000 to increase the school safety | ||
| allotment under Section 48.115, Education Code, as amended by that | ||
| Act. | ||
| 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. | ||
