Bill Text: TX HB331 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the costs of expansion of open-enrollment charter schools.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB331 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB331-Introduced.html
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| By: Howard | H.B. No. 331 | |
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| relating to the costs of expansion of open-enrollment charter | ||
| schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 48.266(f), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (f) If the amount appropriated for the Foundation School | ||
| Program for the second year of a state fiscal biennium is less than | ||
| the amount to which school districts and open-enrollment charter | ||
| schools are entitled for that year, the commissioner shall certify | ||
| the amount of the difference to the Legislative Budget Board not | ||
| later than January 1 of the second year of the state fiscal | ||
| biennium. The Legislative Budget Board shall propose to the | ||
| legislature that the certified amount be transferred to the | ||
| foundation school fund from the economic stabilization fund and | ||
| appropriated for the purpose of increases in allocations under this | ||
| subsection. If the legislature fails during the regular session to | ||
| enact the proposed transfer and appropriation and there are not | ||
| funds available under Subsection (h), the commissioner may not | ||
| approve an expansion amendment for an open-enrollment charter | ||
| school or an application of a new charter holder for the biennium | ||
| before adjusting [ |
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| school district and open-enrollment charter school under this | ||
| chapter and the total amounts necessary for each school district to | ||
| comply with the requirements of Chapter 49 by an amount determined | ||
| by applying to each district and school the same percentage | ||
| adjustment to the total amount of state and local revenue due to the | ||
| district or school under this chapter and Chapter 49 so that the | ||
| total amount of the adjustment to all districts and schools results | ||
| in an amount equal to the total adjustment necessary. The following | ||
| fiscal year: | ||
| (1) a district's or school's entitlement under this | ||
| section is increased by an amount equal to the adjustment made | ||
| under this subsection; and | ||
| (2) the amount necessary for a district to comply with | ||
| the requirements of Chapter 49 is reduced by an amount necessary to | ||
| ensure a district's full recovery of the adjustment made under this | ||
| subsection. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 48.269(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) Not later than October 1 of each even-numbered year: | ||
| (1) the agency shall submit to the legislature: | ||
| (A) an estimate of the tax rate and student | ||
| enrollment of each school district for the following biennium; and | ||
| (B) for each open-enrollment charter school, the | ||
| school's student enrollment and the school's maximum enrollment | ||
| capacity; and | ||
| (2) the comptroller shall submit to the legislature an | ||
| estimate of the total taxable value of all property in the state as | ||
| determined under Subchapter M, Chapter 403, Government Code, for | ||
| the following biennium. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
| school year. | ||
| 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 September 1, 2023. | ||
