Bill Text: TX HB1474 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the placement of money in the state instructional materials fund and payment of the instructional materials allotment.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB1474 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1474-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1474 |
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relating to the placement of money in the state instructional | ||
materials fund and payment of the instructional materials | ||
allotment. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 31.0211(a) and (d), Education Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A school district is entitled to an [ |
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each biennium from the state instructional materials fund for each | ||
student enrolled in the district on a date during the last year of | ||
the preceding biennium [ |
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commissioner. The commissioner shall determine the amount of the | ||
allotment per student each biennium [ |
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amount of money available in the state instructional materials fund | ||
to fund the allotment. An allotment under this section shall be | ||
transferred from the state instructional materials fund to the | ||
credit of the district's instructional materials account as | ||
provided by Section 31.0212. | ||
(d) Each biennium [ |
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district's allotment under this section to purchase, in the | ||
following order: | ||
(1) instructional materials necessary to permit the | ||
district to certify that the district has instructional materials | ||
that cover all elements of the essential knowledge and skills of the | ||
required curriculum, other than physical education, for each grade | ||
level as required by Section 28.002; and | ||
(2) any other instructional materials or | ||
technological equipment as determined by the district. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 31.0212(a), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) The commissioner shall maintain an instructional | ||
materials account for each school district. In the first year of | ||
each biennium [ |
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the account for each district the amount of the district's | ||
instructional materials allotment under Section 31.0211. | ||
SECTION 3. Sections 31.0215(a) and (b), Education Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The commissioner shall, as early as practicable during | ||
each biennium [ |
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open-enrollment charter school of the estimated amount to which the | ||
district or charter school will be entitled under Section 31.0211 | ||
during the next fiscal biennium [ |
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(b) The commissioner may allow a school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school to place an order for instructional | ||
materials before the beginning of a fiscal biennium [ |
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receive instructional materials before payment. The commissioner | ||
shall limit the cost of an order placed under this section to 80 | ||
percent of the estimated amount to which a school district or | ||
open-enrollment charter school is estimated to be entitled as | ||
provided by Subsection (a) and shall first credit any balance in a | ||
district or charter school instructional materials account to pay | ||
for an order placed under this section. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 43.001(d), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) Each biennium [ |
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set aside an amount equal to 50 percent of the [ |
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for that biennium [ |
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available school fund as provided by Section 5(a), Article VII, | ||
Texas Constitution, to be placed, subject to the General | ||
Appropriations Act, in the state instructional materials fund | ||
established under Section 31.021. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 403.093(d), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(d) The comptroller shall transfer from the general revenue | ||
fund to the foundation school fund an amount of money necessary to | ||
fund the foundation school program as provided by Chapter 42, | ||
Education Code. The comptroller shall make the transfers in | ||
installments as necessary to comply with Section 42.259, Education | ||
Code, and permit the Texas Education Agency, to the extent | ||
authorized by the General Appropriations Act, to make temporary | ||
transfers from the foundation school fund for payment of the | ||
instructional materials allotment under Section 31.0211, Education | ||
Code. Unless an earlier date is necessary for purposes of temporary | ||
transfers for payment of the instructional materials allotment, an | ||
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date an installment to school districts is required by Section | ||
42.259, Education Code, and must not exceed the amount necessary | ||
for that payment and any temporary transfers for payment of the | ||
instructional materials allotment. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1474 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
2015, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 4, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1474 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
24, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |