Bill Text: TX HB95 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 95 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to exempting a school district from the obligation to comply with certain unfunded state educational mandates.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 11)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-05 - Referred to Public Education [HB95 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB95-Introduced.html

	83R1042 CAS-F

	By: White	H.B. No. 95



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to exempting a school district from the obligation to
	comply with certain unfunded state educational mandates.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 11.004 to read as follows:
	Sec. 11.004. EXEMPTION FROM CERTAIN STATE EDUCATIONAL
	MANDATES. (a) In this section, "state educational mandate" means a
	statutory provision the implementation of which requires an
	expenditure by a school district that would not have been required
	in the absence of the statutory provision or a rule adopted under
	that provision.
	(b) A school district is exempt from a state educational
	mandate for which the legislature has not appropriated money
	estimated to be sufficient to meet the expenditure required by the
	mandate at the time the mandate is effective unless the legislature
	has determined that the mandate fulfills an important state
	interest and:
	(1) the expenditure is required to comply with a law
	that applies to all persons similarly situated, including entities
	other than a school district; or
	(2) the mandate is necessary either to comply with
	federal law or to meet eligibility standards for a federal
	entitlement, and the federal law specifically contemplates action
	by a district for compliance or eligibility.
	SECTION 2. 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, 2013.