Bill Text: TX HB67 | 2011 | 82nd Legislature 1st Special | Introduced

Texas House Bill 67 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the entitlement of school districts and open-enrollment charter schools to a certain funding level and to the appropriation of money from the economic stabilization fund to be used for public education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-09 - Referred to Public Education [HB67 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB67-Introduced.html

	82S10268 KKA-D

	By: Gallego	H.B. No. 67



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the entitlement of school districts and open-enrollment
	charter schools to a certain funding level and to the appropriation
	of money from the economic stabilization fund to be used for public
	education.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as the Save Our Schools
	Act.
	SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 42, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 42.2532 to read as follows:
	Sec. 42.2532. ENTITLEMENT TO FUNDING LEVELS PROVIDED DURING
	THE 2010-2011 SCHOOL YEAR. Notwithstanding any other provision of
	this chapter, each school district and open-enrollment charter
	school is entitled to receive at least the amount of state and local
	maintenance and operations funding per student in weighted average
	daily attendance that the district would be entitled to receive
	under this chapter as it existed on January 1, 2011.
	SECTION 3. In addition to amounts appropriated to the Texas
	Education Agency for the Foundation School Program by S.B. 2, Acts
	of the 82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, or similar
	legislation, the amount necessary to provide school districts and
	open-enrollment charter schools with the full amount of funding to
	which they are entitled under Section 42.2532, Education Code, as
	added by this Act, for the state fiscal biennium beginning
	September 1, 2011, as determined by the commissioner of education
	in consultation with the Legislative Budget Board, is appropriated
	from the economic stabilization fund to the Texas Education Agency
	for the Foundation School Program under Chapter 42, Education Code.
	SECTION 4. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
	over another Act of the 82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011,
	regardless of the relative dates of enactment.
	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect only if it receives a vote
	of two-thirds of the members present in each house of the
	legislature, as provided by Section 49-g(m), Article III, Texas
	Constitution.
	SECTION 6. 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.