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
88R2182 CXP-F | ||
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. |