Bill Text: TX HB30 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.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-Comm_Sub.html
By: Zerwas, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) | H.B. No. 30 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House August 8, 2017; | ||
August 12, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Finance; August 13, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 15, Nays 0; | ||
August 13, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 30 | By: Nelson |
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relating to the transfer of certain appropriations to the Texas | ||
Education Agency and the adjustment of appropriations for public | ||
school finance. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. (a) The amount of $311,000,000 of the | ||
unencumbered appropriations from the general revenue fund for the | ||
state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2019, made by S.B. 1, Acts | ||
of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017 (the General | ||
Appropriations Act), to the Health and Human Services Commission is | ||
transferred to the Texas Education Agency to be used by the agency | ||
during that state fiscal biennium as follows: | ||
(1) $150,000,000 is allocated to fund financial | ||
hardship grants under Subchapter H, Chapter 42, Education Code, as | ||
added by H.B. 21, Acts of the 85th Legislature, 1st Called Session, | ||
2017, or similar legislation that enacts a new hardship grant | ||
program for the benefit of school districts that would otherwise | ||
experience a significant loss of revenue during the 2017-2018 or | ||
2018-2019 school year; | ||
(2) $60,000,000 is allocated to fund payments to | ||
open-enrollment charter schools under Section 12.106(d), Education | ||
Code, as added by H.B. 21, Acts of the 85th Legislature, 1st Called | ||
Session, 2017, or similar legislation that provides for funding to | ||
open-enrollment charter schools for instructional facilities; | ||
(3) $60,000,000 is allocated for the existing debt | ||
allotment under Section 46.032, Education Code, as amended by H.B. | ||
21, Acts of the 85th Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2017, or | ||
similar legislation that increases the level of funding under that | ||
allotment; and | ||
(4) $41,000,000 is allocated for the small-sized | ||
district adjustment under Section 42.103, Education Code, as | ||
amended by H.B. 21, Acts of the 85th Legislature, 1st Called | ||
Session, 2017, or similar legislation that addresses the | ||
entitlement under that adjustment for certain school districts that | ||
contain less than 300 square miles. | ||
(b) The Health and Human Services Commission shall identify | ||
the strategies and objectives out of which the transfer under | ||
Subsection (a) of this section is to be made. | ||
(c) 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. | ||
(d) If H.B. 21, Acts of the 85th Legislature, 1st Called | ||
Session, 2017, or another similar Act that addresses additional | ||
funding under the public school finance system for the components | ||
described in Subsection (a) of this section also transfers and | ||
allocates to those components the amount of unencumbered | ||
appropriations in the manner provided by that subsection, the | ||
transfer and allocation under Subsection (a) of this section does | ||
not occur. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect only if the 85th | ||
Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2017, enacts H.B. 21 or another | ||
similar Act that addresses additional funding under the public | ||
school finance system for the components described in Section 1 of | ||
this Act and H.B. 21 or that similar Act becomes law. If H.B. 21 or | ||
another similar Act described by this section does not become law, | ||
this Act has no effect. | ||
SECTION 3. 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. | ||
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