Bill Text: TX HB33 | 2011 | 82nd Legislature 1st Special | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to providing for efficient government resource allocation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-06 - Left pending in committee [HB33 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB33-Introduced.html
By: Miller of Erath | H.B. No. 33 |
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relating to providing for efficient government resource | ||
allocation. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 42 Education Code is amended by adding a | ||
new section as follows: | ||
Sec. 42.502. Taxpayer Savings Grant Program. Any parent or | ||
legal guardian of a school-age child who resides in Texas and is | ||
entering kindergarten or attended a public school for all of the | ||
academic year prior their participation in this program, who is | ||
willing to help the State of Texas save money by accepting less than | ||
the average per-pupil maintenance and operations expenditure in the | ||
district in which they reside, may receive reimbursement from the | ||
state for tuition paid for enrollment of said child at a private | ||
school in the amount of actual tuition or sixty percent of the | ||
state average per-pupil maintenance and operations expenditure, | ||
whichever is less, and the gratitude of the State of Texas. | ||
Section 2. Within 45 days of the passage of this Act, the | ||
Comptroller shall adopt rules solely to effectuate reimbursement | ||
and prevent fraud in financial transactions under this program. | ||
Such rules shall include the method for counting Taxpayer Savings | ||
Grant students in the Foundation School Program and the consequent | ||
savings therefrom. No funds from the Available School Fund shall be | ||
used for Taxpayer Savings Grants. | ||
Section 3. This act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39. Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the votes necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |