Bill Text: TX HB749 | 2027-2028 | 90th Legislature Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to student weights and the allocation of reductions in funding under the public junior college state finance program.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced) 2026-11-09 - Filed [HB749 Detail]

Download: Texas-2027-HB749-Introduced.html

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By: Perez of El Paso H.B. No. 749

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to student weights and the allocation of reductions in
funding under the public junior college state finance program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 130A.005(d), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(d) The coordinating board may use the emergency rulemaking
procedures established under Section 2001.034, Government Code, to
adopt rules necessary to align the funding formulas under this
chapter with appropriations or other legislative action, subject to
Sections 130A.054(f) and (g) and 130A.101(d), (e), (f), and (g).
The coordinating board is not required to make the finding
described by Section 2001.034(a), Government Code, to adopt rules
under this subsection.
SECTION 2. Section 130A.054, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows:
(f) The coordinating board shall establish each student
weight under Subsection (b) at a value not less than the value in
effect for that category of students under that subsection on
January 1, 2026. The coordinating board shall adopt rules
reinstating those values not later than the 90th day after the
effective date of this subsection.
(g) The coordinating board may not establish, reduce, or
apply a student weight under Subsection (b) in a manner
inconsistent with Subsection (f), including for the purpose of
aligning the funding formulas under this chapter with
appropriations.
SECTION 3. Section 130A.101, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (d), (e), (f), and (g) to read as follows:
(d) If the amount appropriated for performance tier funding
for a state fiscal biennium is less than the total amount to which
junior college districts are entitled under this section, the
coordinating board shall:
(1) determine the amount to which each junior college
district is entitled under this section, applying the student
weights required by Section 130A.054; and
(2) reduce the amount to which each junior college
district is entitled by the same percentage, so that each district
receives the same proportion of the amount determined for that
district under Subdivision (1).
(e) In reducing funding under Subsection (d), the
coordinating board may not:
(1) reduce, disregard, or decline to apply a student
weight established under Section 130A.054;
(2) reduce the amount determined for a measurable
outcome described by Subsection (c) by a percentage different from
the percentage applied to any other measurable outcome; or
(3) use a method of reduction under which a junior
college district receives a reduction that is greater, as a
percentage of the amount determined for the district under
Subsection (d)(1), because of the number or proportion of students
enrolled at or achieving an outcome at the district who are
described by Section 130A.054(b).
(f) Before adopting a rule under Subsection (d), the
coordinating board shall publish on the coordinating board's
Internet website and deliver to the governor, the Legislative
Budget Board, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of
representatives, and the standing committees of each house of the
legislature with primary jurisdiction over higher education:
(1) the amount determined for each junior college
district under Subsection (d)(1);
(2) the total amount appropriated for performance tier
funding for the state fiscal biennium and the amount of the
difference between that amount and the total of the amounts
determined under Subsection (d)(1);
(3) the percentage by which each district's amount is
reduced under Subsection (d)(2); and
(4) the amount each district is to receive after the
reduction.
(g) If money is appropriated for performance tier funding
for a state fiscal biennium in addition to the amount on which a
reduction under Subsection (d) was based, the coordinating board
shall distribute that money to the junior college districts whose
funding was reduced, in proportion to the amount of the reduction
applied to each district, until each district has received the
amount determined for the district under Subsection (d)(1).
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply
beginning with funding under Chapter 130A, Education Code, for the
state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2027.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2027.