Bill Text: TX SB775 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to public school finance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-26 - Referred to Finance [SB775 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB775-Introduced.html
By: Deuell | S.B. No. 775 | |
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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 | ||
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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 [ |
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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. |