Bill Text: TX SB775 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to public school finance.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-26 - Referred to Finance [SB775 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB775-Introduced.html

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By: Deuell S.B. No. 775

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to public school finance.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 12.106, Education Code,
as effective until September 1, 2017, is amended to read as follows:
(a) A charter holder is entitled to receive for the
open-enrollment charter school funding under Chapter 42 equal to
the greater of:
(1) except as provided by Subsection (a-5), the
percentage specified by Section 42.2516(i) multiplied by the amount
of funding per student in weighted average daily attendance,
excluding enrichment funding under Sections 42.302(a-1)(2) and
(3), as they existed on January 1, 2009, that would have been
received for the school during the 2009-2010 school year under
Chapter 42 as it existed on January 1, 2009, and an additional
amount of the percentage specified by Section 42.2516(i) multiplied
by $120 for each student in weighted average daily attendance; or
(2) the amount of funding per student in weighted
average daily attendance, excluding enrichment funding under
Section 42.302(a), to which the charter holder would be entitled
for the school under Chapter 42 if the school were a school district
without a tier one local share for purposes of Section 42.253 and
without any local revenue for purposes of Section 42.2516.
SECTION 2. Section 12.106, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (a-5) and (a-6) to read as follows:
(a-5) The commissioner shall reduce the amount of state
funding provided to a charter holder under Subsection (a)(1) to an
amount equal to:
(1) for the state fiscal year beginning September 1,
2013, the amount calculated under that subsection multiplied by
0.80;
(2) for the state fiscal year beginning September 1,
2014, the amount calculated under that subsection multiplied by
0.60;
(3) for the state fiscal year beginning September 1,
2015, the amount calculated under that subsection multiplied by
0.40; and
(4) for the state fiscal year beginning September 1,
2016, the amount calculated under that subsection multiplied by
0.20.
(a-6) Subsection (a-5) and this subsection expire September
1, 2017.
SECTION 3. Section 42.2516, Education Code, as effective
until September 1, 2017, is amended by amending Subsection (b) and
adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
(b) Except as provided by Subsections (j) and
notwithstanding [Notwithstanding] any other provision of this
title, a school district that imposes a maintenance and operations
tax at a rate at least equal to the product of the state compression
percentage multiplied by the maintenance and operations tax rate
adopted by the district for the 2005 tax year is entitled to at
least the amount of state revenue necessary to provide the district
with the sum of:
(1) the percentage specified by Subsection (i) of the
amount, as calculated under Subsection (e), of state and local
revenue per student in weighted average daily attendance for
maintenance and operations that the district would have received
during the 2009-2010 school year under Chapter 41 and this chapter,
as those chapters existed on January 1, 2009, at a maintenance and
operations tax rate equal to the product of the state compression
percentage for that year multiplied by the maintenance and
operations tax rate adopted by the district for the 2005 tax year;
(2) the percentage specified by Subsection (i) of an
amount equal to the product of $120 multiplied by the number of
students in weighted average daily attendance in the district; and
(3) any amount to which the district is entitled under
Section 42.106.
(j) The commissioner shall reduce the amount of state aid
provided to a school district under this section to an amount equal
to:
(1) for the state fiscal year beginning September 1,
2013, the amount calculated under Subsections (a)-(i) multiplied by
0.80;
(2) for the state fiscal year beginning September 1,
2014, the amount calculated under Subsections (a)-(i) multiplied by
0.60;
(3) for the state fiscal year beginning September 1,
2015, the amount calculated under Subsections (a)-(i) multiplied by
0.40; and
(4) for the state fiscal year beginning September 1,
2016, the amount calculated under Subsections (a)-(i) multiplied by
0.20.
SECTION 4. Section 42.25161, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as
follows:
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), the [The]
commissioner shall provide South Texas Independent School District
with the amount of state aid necessary to ensure that the district
receives an amount of state and local revenue per student in
weighted average daily attendance that is at least the percentage
specified by Section 42.2516(i) of $120 greater than the amount the
district would have received per student in weighted average daily
attendance during the 2009-2010 school year under this chapter, as
it existed on January 1, 2009, at a maintenance and operations tax
rate equal to the product of the state compression percentage
multiplied by the maintenance and operations tax rate adopted by
the district for the 2005 tax year, provided that the district
imposes a maintenance and operations tax at that rate.
(a-1) The commissioner shall reduce the amount of state aid
provided to South Texas Independent School District under
Subsection (a) to an amount equal to:
(1) for the state fiscal year beginning September 1,
2013, the amount calculated under that subsection multiplied by
0.80;
(2) for the state fiscal year beginning September 1,
2014, the amount calculated under that subsection multiplied by
0.60;
(3) for the state fiscal year beginning September 1,
2015, the amount calculated under that subsection multiplied by
0.40; and
(4) for the state fiscal year beginning September 1,
2016, the amount calculated under that subsection multiplied by
0.20.
SECTION 5. It is the intent of the legislature that the
savings of state revenue realized from phasing out Additional State
Aid For Tax Reduction (ASATR) under this Act be used to increase the
basic allotment to which a school district is entitled under
Section 42.101, Education Code.
SECTION 6. The changes in law made by this Act apply
beginning with the 2013-2014 school year.
SECTION 7. 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.