Bill Text: TX SB1658 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the effect of certain state aid on school districts required to take action to equalize wealth under the school finance system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB1658 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1658-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the effect of certain state aid on school districts required to take action to equalize wealth under the school finance system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB1658 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1658-Comm_Sub.html
By: Paxton | S.B. No. 1658 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2013; March 20, 2013, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 16, 2013, | ||
reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 16, 2013, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1658 | By: Paxton |
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relating to the effect of certain state aid on school districts | ||
required to take action to equalize wealth under the school finance | ||
system. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 41.0041, Education Code, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
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SECTION 2. Subsections (b), (c), and (d), Section 41.0041, | ||
Education Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) When the commissioner initially identifies a school | ||
district under Section 41.004 as having a wealth per student for a | ||
school year that exceeds the equalized wealth level, the | ||
commissioner shall estimate: | ||
(1) the amount of state revenue to which the district | ||
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year; and | ||
(2) the cost to the district to purchase attendance | ||
credits under Subchapter D in an amount sufficient to reduce the | ||
district's wealth per student to the equalized wealth level for | ||
that school year. | ||
(c) If the commissioner determines that the amount | ||
described by Subsection (b)(1) exceeds the amount described by | ||
Subsection (b)(2), the commissioner shall notify the district of | ||
the commissioner's determination. In lieu of exercising an option | ||
described by Section 41.003, the district's board of trustees may | ||
authorize the commissioner to withhold from the state revenue to | ||
which the district is entitled under Chapter 42 [ |
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an amount equal to the amount described by Subsection (b)(2). | ||
(d) In calculating the amount of state revenue to be | ||
withheld from a school district under this section, the | ||
commissioner shall calculate the cost for the district to reduce | ||
the district's wealth per student to the equalized wealth level | ||
using the final attendance and tax rate data for the school year and | ||
shall award the district any available credit or discount under | ||
Subchapter D as if the district had exercised the option under | ||
Section 41.003(3) in a timely manner. If the final amount | ||
calculated for the cost for the district to reduce the district's | ||
wealth per student to the equalized wealth level for a school year | ||
exceeds the amount of state revenue to which the district is | ||
entitled under Chapter 42 [ |
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(1) the commissioner shall: | ||
(A) withhold the entire amount of state revenue | ||
to which the district is entitled under Chapter 42 [ |
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(B) withhold the additional amount of the cost | ||
for the district to reduce the district's wealth per student to the | ||
equalized wealth level for that year from the state revenue to which | ||
the district is entitled under Chapter 42 [ |
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subsequent school year, or if the additional amount exceeds the | ||
amount of state revenue to which the district is entitled, add the | ||
difference to the cost of the attendance credits that the district | ||
must purchase in the subsequent year; and | ||
(2) the district is not required to take any further | ||
action to reduce its wealth per student for that year. | ||
SECTION 3. Subsection (a), Section 57.32, Chapter 4 (S.B. | ||
1), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Effective September 1, 2017, the following provisions | ||
of the Education Code are repealed: | ||
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(f), (f-1), (f-2), (f-3), and (i), Section 42.2516; | ||
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SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
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