Bill Amendment: TX HB1525 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature

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Bill Title: Relating to the public school finance system and public education.

Status: 2021-06-16 - See remarks for effective date [HB1525 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB1525-Senate_Amendment_S_2_F6-Hughes.html

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Amend CSHB 1525 (senate committee report) in SECTION 17 of the bill as follows:

(1)  In amended Section 48.111(a), Education Code, strike page 7, lines 45-50 and substitute the following:

equal to the greater of:

(1)  the difference, if the difference is greater than zero, that results from subtracting 250 from the difference between the number of students enrolled in the district during the school year immediately preceding the current school year and the number of students enrolled in the district during the school year six years preceding the current school year; or

(2)  the average annual growth in student enrollment in the district for the preceding three school years, if the growth in student enrollment in the district for the preceding three school years is in the top quartile of student enrollment growth in school districts in the state for that period, as determined by the commissioner [in average daily attendance].

(2)  Strike added Section 48.111(d), Education Code (page 8, lines 9-14), and substitute the following:

(d)  Subject to the limitation under Subsection (d-1), for the 2021-2022 school year, the agency shall provide to each school district that is entitled to an allotment under this section that is less than the amount of the allotment to which the district was entitled for the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 school year, whichever was greater, an allotment amount equal to the difference between the greater amount for the 2019-2020 or 2020-2021 school year and the amount to which the district is entitled for the 2021-2022 school year.