Bill Text: TX HB161 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring the legislature to set the basic allotment and guaranteed yield under the public school finance system at certain amounts in the General Appropriations Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-10-16 - Filed [HB161 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB161-Introduced.html
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By: Rogers | H.B. No. 161 |
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relating to requiring the legislature to set the basic allotment | ||
and guaranteed yield under the public school finance system at | ||
certain amounts in the General Appropriations Act. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 48, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 48.2511 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 48.2511. APPROPRIATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION. (a) In | ||
each biennial General Appropriations Act, the legislature shall set | ||
the basic allotment under Section 48.051 and the dollar amount | ||
guaranteed level of state and local funds per weighted student per | ||
cent of tax effort ("GL") under Section 48.202 for each state fiscal | ||
year at: | ||
(1) the amounts necessary for the amount of state | ||
funds to which all school districts are jointly entitled under this | ||
chapter, together with state funds to which all school districts | ||
are jointly entitled for that state fiscal year under any other law | ||
that provides funding for the general maintenance and operation of | ||
the system of public free schools, to constitute, as determined by | ||
the legislature, at least 55 percent of the cost of maintaining and | ||
operating that system; or | ||
(2) amounts greater than the amounts specified by | ||
Subdivision (1). | ||
(b) For purposes of calculating the amount of state funds | ||
required under Subsection (a), the legislature may not consider | ||
money that is attributable to an ad valorem tax imposed by a school | ||
district on property located in the school district, including any | ||
revenue the school district is required to transfer to the state to | ||
reduce the school district's local revenue level in accordance with | ||
Chapter 49. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
last day of the legislative session. |