Bill Text: TX HB4490 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to equalized education funding and mandate impact statements for bills and resolutions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-26 - Referred to House Administration [HB4490 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4490-Introduced.html
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| By: Shine | H.B. No. 4490 | |
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| relating to equalized education funding and mandate impact | ||
| statements for bills and resolutions. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Section 314.004, Government Code, | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 314.004. EQUALIZED EDUCATION FUNDING AND MANDATE | ||
| IMPACT STATEMENT. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 314.004, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsection (d) to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| (a) The board shall prepare for each bill or resolution that | ||
| affects public education an equalized education funding and mandate | ||
| impact statement. | ||
| (b) The impact statement must evaluate the effect of the | ||
| bill or resolution on: | ||
| (1) all state equalized funding requirements and | ||
| policies, including any reduction in the amount of state aid a | ||
| school district would receive under the bill or resolution; and | ||
| (2) if the bill or resolution proposes a mandate, the | ||
| amount of additional: | ||
| (A) revenue the bill or resolution would require | ||
| a school district to expend to comply with the mandate; and | ||
| (B) time the bill or resolution would require a | ||
| school district employee or student to expend to comply with the | ||
| mandate. | ||
| (d) In this section, "mandate" means a statutory | ||
| requirement proposed in a bill or resolution that requires a school | ||
| district or an employee or student of a school district to | ||
| establish, expand, or modify an activity in a way that requires the | ||
| expenditure of revenue or time by the school district, employee, or | ||
| student that would not have been required in the absence of the | ||
| statutory requirement proposed in the bill or resolution. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
