Bill Text: TX HB124 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the school safety allotment under the Foundation School Program.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-17 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB124 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB124-Comm_Sub.html

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89R20920 AMF-D
By: Bonnen H.B. No. 124
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 124:
By: Buckley C.S.H.B. No. 124

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the school safety allotment under the Foundation School
Program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 48.115, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c-2) 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) $14 [$10] for each student in average daily
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) $37,000 [$15,000] per campus.
(c-2) Not later than December 1 of each year, each school
district shall submit to the agency a report accounting for the
expenditure of funds received under this section.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.