Bill Text: TX SB678 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the small-sized district adjustment under the Foundation School Program.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-22 - Co-author authorized [SB678 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB678-Introduced.html
  85R8046 MEW-D
 
  By: Nichols, Perry, Rodríguez S.B. No. 678
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the small-sized district adjustment under the
  Foundation School Program.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 12.106(a-1), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a-1)  In determining funding for an open-enrollment charter
  school under Subsection (a):
               (1)  [,] adjustments under Sections 42.102, [42.103,]
  42.104, and 42.105 are based on the average adjustment for the
  state; and
               (2)  the adjustment under Section 42.103 is based on
  the average adjustment for the state that would have been provided
  under that section as it existed on January 1, 2017.
         SECTION 2.  (a) Effective September 1, 2022, Sections
  42.103(b) and (d), Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (b)  The basic allotment of a school district that [contains
  at least 300 square miles and] has not more than 1,600 students in
  average daily attendance is adjusted by applying the formula:
  AA = (1 + ((1,600 - ADA) X .0004)) X ABA
         (d)  The basic allotment of a school district that offers a
  kindergarten through grade 12 program and has less than 5,000
  students in average daily attendance is adjusted by applying the
  formula, of the following formulas, that results in the greatest
  adjusted allotment:
               (1)  the formula in Subsection (b), if [or (c) for
  which] the district is eligible for that formula; or
               (2)  AA = (1 + ((5,000 - ADA) X .000025)) X ABA.
         (b)  Effective September 1, 2022, Section 42.103(c),
  Education Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 3.  Section 42.103(c), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (c)  The basic allotment of a school district that contains
  less than 300 square miles and has not more than 1,600 students in
  average daily attendance is adjusted by applying the following
  formulas [formula]:
               (1)  for the fiscal year beginning September 1, 2017:
  AA = (1 + ((1,600 - ADA) X .000275 [.00025])) X ABA
               ;
               (2)  for the fiscal year beginning September 1, 2018:
  AA = (1 + ((1,600 - ADA) X .00030)) X ABA
               ;
               (3)  for the fiscal year beginning September 1, 2019:
  AA = (1 + ((1,600 - ADA) X .000325)) X ABA
               ;
               (4)  for the fiscal year beginning September 1, 2020:
  AA = (1 + ((1,600 - ADA) X .00035)) X ABA
               ; and
               (5)  for the fiscal year beginning September 1, 2021:
  AA = (1 + ((1,600 - ADA) X .000375)) X ABA
         SECTION 4.  Except as otherwise provided by this Act, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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