Bill Text: TX HB2139 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to an annual adjustment to the basic allotment under the Foundation School Program to reflect inflation.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-06 - Referred to Public Education [HB2139 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB2139-Introduced.html

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86R10632 MEW-F
By: Goodwin H.B. No. 2139

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an annual adjustment to the basic allotment under the
Foundation School Program to reflect inflation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.101, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-3) to read as
follows:
(a) Subject to adjustment under Subsection (a-3), for [For]
each student in average daily attendance, not including the time
students spend each day in special education programs in an
instructional arrangement other than mainstream or career and
technology education programs, for which an additional allotment is
made under Subchapter C, a district is entitled to an allotment
equal to the lesser of $4,765 or the amount that results from the
following formula:
A = $4,765 X (DCR/MCR)
where:
"A" is the allotment to which a district is entitled;
"DCR" is the district's compressed tax rate, which is the
product of the state compression percentage, as determined under
Section 42.2516, multiplied by the maintenance and operations tax
rate adopted by the district for the 2005 tax year; and
"MCR" is the state maximum compressed tax rate, which is the
product of the state compression percentage, as determined under
Section 42.2516, multiplied by $1.50.
(a-3) Beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, the basic
allotment provided to a district under Subsection (a) or (b) is
adjusted annually to increase the allotment by the greater of:
(1) one percent of the amount of the allotment for the
preceding school year; or
(2) the amount that results from applying the
inflation rate, as determined by the comptroller on the basis of
changes in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers
published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States
Department of Labor, to the allotment for the preceding school
year.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.