Bill Text: TX HB4611 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to certain distributions to the available school fund.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-05 - See remarks for effective date [HB4611 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4611-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 4611 | ||
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| relating to certain distributions to the available school fund. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 43.001(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) The available school fund, which shall be apportioned | ||
| annually to each county according to its scholastic population, | ||
| consists of: | ||
| (1) the distributions to the fund from the permanent | ||
| school fund as provided by Sections [ |
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| VII, Texas Constitution; | ||
| (2) one-fourth of all revenue derived from all state | ||
| occupation taxes, exclusive of delinquencies and cost of | ||
| collection; | ||
| (3) one-fourth of revenue derived from state gasoline | ||
| and special fuels excise taxes as provided by law; and | ||
| (4) all other appropriations to the available school | ||
| fund made by the legislature for public school purposes. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 43.001(d), Education Code, as amended by | ||
| Chapters 581 (S.B. 810) and 705 (H.B. 3526), Acts of the 85th | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, is reenacted and amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (d) Each biennium the State Board of Education shall set | ||
| aside an amount equal to 50 percent of the distribution for that | ||
| biennium from the permanent school fund to the available school | ||
| fund as provided by Sections [ |
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| Texas Constitution, to be placed, subject to the General | ||
| Appropriations Act, in the state instructional materials and | ||
| technology fund established under Section 31.021. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2020, but only | ||
| if the constitutional amendment proposed by the 86th Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 2019, providing for increased distributions to the | ||
| available school fund is approved by the voters. If that proposed | ||
| constitutional amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act | ||
| has no effect. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 4611 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 25, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 126, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 4611 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 19, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
