Bill Text: TX HB30 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the transfer of certain appropriations to the Texas Education Agency and the Teacher Retirement System of Texas and the adjustment of appropriations for public school finance.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-4)
Status: (Passed) 2017-08-16 - Effective immediately [HB30 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB30-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the transfer of certain appropriations to the Texas Education Agency and the Teacher Retirement System of Texas and the adjustment of appropriations for public school finance.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-4)
Status: (Passed) 2017-08-16 - Effective immediately [HB30 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB30-Introduced.html
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By: Zerwas | H.B. No. 30 |
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relating to making supplemental appropriations and giving | ||
direction and making adjustments regarding appropriations for | ||
public school finance. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY. (a) In | ||
addition to other amounts appropriated to the Texas Education | ||
Agency for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2017, | ||
the following appropriations are made to the agency from the | ||
Foundation School Fund, general revenue account number 0193, for | ||
Strategy A.1.1., FSP-Equalized Operations, as listed in the | ||
appropriations made to the agency in Chapter 605 (S.B. 1), Acts of | ||
the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017 (the General | ||
Appropriations Act): | ||
(1) $963,500,000 for the state fiscal year beginning | ||
September 1, 2017; and | ||
(2) $963,500,000 for the state fiscal year beginning | ||
September 1, 2018. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding the sum-certain appropriations | ||
specified in Rider 3, Chapter 605 (S.B. 1), Acts of the 85th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2017 (the General Appropriations | ||
Act), to the bill pattern of the appropriations to the Texas | ||
Education Agency, the Legislative Budget Board shall determine the | ||
sum-certain appropriation to the Foundation School Program for each | ||
year of the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2017, | ||
based on the amount specified in that rider, the other provisions of | ||
the General Appropriations Act, and other law, including the | ||
provisions of this Act. | ||
(c) Notwithstanding Rider 3, Chapter 605 (S.B. 1), Acts of | ||
the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017 (the General | ||
Appropriations Act), to the bill pattern of the appropriations to | ||
the Texas Education Agency, for purposes of distributing the | ||
Foundation School Program basic tier state aid appropriated for the | ||
state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2017, and in | ||
accordance with Section 42.101, Education Code, the basic allotment | ||
is established at $5,350 for the state fiscal year beginning | ||
September 1, 2017, and $5,350 for the state fiscal year beginning | ||
September 1, 2018. | ||
(d) Out of amounts appropriated to the Texas Education | ||
Agency in Subsection (a) of this section, the commissioner of | ||
education shall allocate $15,000,000 for the state fiscal year | ||
beginning September 1, 2017, and $15,000,000 for the state fiscal | ||
year beginning September 1, 2018, to making grants under Section | ||
29.018, Education Code, to school districts and open-enrollment | ||
charter schools to assist in covering the cost of educating | ||
students with disabilities. It is the intent of the legislature | ||
that: | ||
(1) except as inconsistent with general law, expenses | ||
for which a school district or open-enrollment charter school may | ||
use money allocated under this section and awarded to the district | ||
or school as a grant include: | ||
(A) fees for educational therapies or support | ||
services provided by a practitioner or other provider; | ||
(B) transportation costs necessary for a student | ||
to receive educational support services; | ||
(C) costs associated with purchasing | ||
instructional materials, as defined by Section 31.002, Education | ||
Code; and | ||
(D) costs of computer hardware and software and | ||
other assistive technological devices intended to facilitate a | ||
student's learning; and | ||
(2) the commissioner of education require a school | ||
district or open-enrollment charter school awarded grant money | ||
described by this subsection to report to the Texas Education | ||
Agency on the district's or school's use of that money. | ||
SECTION 2. APPROPRIATION REDUCTION: TEXAS EDUCATION | ||
AGENCY. The appropriations to the Texas Education Agency for the | ||
state fiscal year beginning September 1, 2018, from the Foundation | ||
School Fund, general revenue account number 0193, for Strategy | ||
A.1.1., FSP-Equalized Operations, made by Chapter 605 (S.B. 1), | ||
Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017 (the General | ||
Appropriations Act), are reduced by $1,927,000,000. It is the | ||
intent of the legislature that the August 2019 Foundation School | ||
Program payment to school districts be deferred and made in | ||
September 2019 in accordance with this Act and the Act described by | ||
Section 3(a)(2) of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. CONTINGENCY. (a) This Act takes effect only if | ||
the 85th Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2017, enacts the | ||
following and the Acts become law: | ||
(1) H.B. 21 or another Act that improves equity in and | ||
reduces the amount of school property tax revenue subject to | ||
recapture under the public school finance system and increases this | ||
state's share of the funding for the Foundation School Program; and | ||
(2) an Act authorizing the deferral of the August 2019 | ||
Foundation School Program payment to school districts. | ||
(b) If an Act described by Subsection (a)(1) of this section | ||
or an Act described by Subsection (a)(2) of this section does not | ||
become law, this Act has no effect. | ||
SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. Except as otherwise provided by | ||
this Act: | ||
(1) this Act takes effect immediately if it receives a | ||
vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution; and | ||
(2) if this Act does not receive the vote necessary for | ||
immediate effect, this Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
last day of the legislative session. |