Bill Text: TX HB33 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to reducing school district maintenance and operations ad valorem taxes through the use of certain surplus state revenue.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-30 - Filed [HB33 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB33-Introduced.html
| By: Toth | H.B. No. 33 | |
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| relating to reducing school district maintenance and operations ad | ||
| valorem taxes through the use of certain surplus state revenue. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 48.255, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| (b) Subject to Subsection (d), the [ |
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| percentage is the lower of: | ||
| (1) 93 percent, or a lower percentage set by | ||
| appropriation for a school year; | ||
| (2) the percentage determined by the following | ||
| formula: | ||
| SCP = PYCP X 1.025/(1 + ECPV); or | ||
| (3) the percentage determined under this section for | ||
| the preceding school year. | ||
| (d) For each school year, the commissioner shall reduce the | ||
| state compression percentage determined under Subsection (b) to the | ||
| lowest percentage possible as a result of: | ||
| (1) money deposited to the credit of the property tax | ||
| relief fund under Section 403.109(e), Government Code; and | ||
| (2) any additional money appropriated for purposes of | ||
| this subsection. | ||
| (e) Notwithstanding any other provision, if for any school | ||
| year the commissioner determines under Subsection (b) or (d) that | ||
| the state compression percentage is zero: | ||
| (1) a school district may not impose a tier one | ||
| maintenance and operations tax for that school year or for any | ||
| subsequent school year; and | ||
| (2) each school district is entitled to funding under | ||
| Chapter 46 and this chapter for each school year as if the district | ||
| had: | ||
| (A) a tier one maintenance and operations tax | ||
| rate equal to the district's maximum compressed tax rate determined | ||
| under Section 48.2551; and | ||
| (B) no local share for purposes of Section | ||
| 48.256. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 403.109, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (e), (f), and (g) to read as follows: | ||
| (e) For each state fiscal biennium beginning before a | ||
| determination by the commissioner of education under Section | ||
| 48.255(e), Education Code, the comptroller shall: | ||
| (1) allocate for deposit to the credit of the fund | ||
| general revenue in an amount equal to 100 percent of the amount by | ||
| which the amount of general revenue received in that biennium | ||
| exceeds the amount of consolidated general revenue appropriations, | ||
| as defined by Section 316.001, that could be appropriated within | ||
| the limit on the rate of growth of those appropriations adopted | ||
| under Section 316.005 for that biennium; and | ||
| (2) periodically deposit to the credit of the fund the | ||
| general revenue allocated under Subdivision (1), with the final | ||
| deposit for that biennium to be made not later than the 90th day of | ||
| the next state fiscal biennium. | ||
| (f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, | ||
| and except as otherwise provided by this subsection, money | ||
| deposited to the credit of the fund under Subsection (e) may be | ||
| appropriated only to the Texas Education Agency for use in | ||
| providing property tax relief through reduction of the state | ||
| compression percentage, as defined by Section 48.255, Education | ||
| Code. If the amount of money available to be appropriated under this | ||
| subsection for a state fiscal biennium exceeds the amount of school | ||
| district maintenance and operations taxes the commissioner of | ||
| education estimates to be payable for that biennium, the surplus | ||
| amount may be appropriated for any purpose. | ||
| (g) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, | ||
| for the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2023, the | ||
| comptroller shall allocate for deposit to the credit of the fund | ||
| general revenue in an amount equal to 63 percent of the amount by | ||
| which the amount of general revenue received before that biennium | ||
| exceeds the amount of consolidated general revenue appropriations, | ||
| as defined by Section 316.001, that could be appropriated within | ||
| the limit on the rate of growth of those appropriations adopted | ||
| under Section 316.005 for that biennium. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the state fiscal | ||
| biennium beginning September 1, 2023. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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. 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. | ||
