Bill Text: TX HB856 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to additional state aid for tax reduction provided to certain school districts for two additional school years.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB856 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB856-Introduced.html

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85R3227 CAE-D
By: Schubert H.B. No. 856

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to additional state aid for tax reduction provided to
certain school districts for two additional school years.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.2516(c-1), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c-1) Revenue generated by the portion of a district's
maintenance and operations tax rate included in calculating the
district's compressed tax rate under Section 42.101(a-1) and local
share under Section 42.252(a-1) is included in determining the
amount to which a district is entitled under this section, but may
not increase the total amount of revenue per weighted student to
which the district is entitled under this section. This subsection
expires September 1, 2019 [2017].
SECTION 2. Sections 42.2518(a) and (e), Education Code, as
effective until September 1, 2017, are amended to read as follows:
(a) For the 2015-2016 through 2018-2019 [and 2016-2017]
school years, a school district is entitled to additional state aid
to the extent that state and local revenue under this chapter and
Chapter 41 is less than the state and local revenue that would have
been available to the district under Chapter 41 and this chapter as
those chapters existed on September 1, 2015, if the increase in the
residence homestead exemption under Section 1-b(c), Article VIII,
Texas Constitution, and the additional limitation on tax increases
under Section 1-b(d) of that article as proposed by S.J.R. 1, 84th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, had not occurred.
(e) This section expires August 31, 2019 [2017].
SECTION 3. Section 42.2518(a), Education Code, as effective
September 1, 2017, is amended to read as follows:
(a) Beginning with the 2019-2020 [2017-2018] school year, a
school district is entitled to additional state aid to the extent
that state and local revenue under this chapter and Chapter 41 is
less than the state and local revenue that would have been available
to the district under Chapter 41 and this chapter as those chapters
existed on September 1, 2015, excluding any state aid that would
have been provided under former Section 42.2516, if the increase in
the residence homestead exemption under Section 1-b(c), Article
VIII, Texas Constitution, and the additional limitation on tax
increases under Section 1-b(d) of that article as proposed by
S.J.R. 1, 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, had not
occurred.
SECTION 4. Notwithstanding Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, the following
provisions are effective September 1, 2019:
(1) Section 57.03, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which amended Section
12.106(a), Education Code;
(2) Section 57.18, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which amended the
heading to Section 42.2516, Education Code;
(3) Section 57.19, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which amended Section
42.2516(a), Education Code;
(4) Section 57.23, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which amended Section
42.253(h), Education Code;
(5) Section 57.29, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which amended Section
26.08(i), Tax Code;
(6) Section 57.32(a), Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which repealed various
provisions of the Education Code; and
(7) Section 57.32(b), Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which repealed Sections
26.08(i-1) and (j), Tax Code.
SECTION 5. 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, 2017.