Bill Text: TX SB8 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 8 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a credit against required recapture payments for certain school districts with excess facilities costs under the public school finance system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-06-28 - Filed [SB8 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB8-Introduced.html

	88S20098 KJE-D

	By: LaMantia	S.B. No. 8



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a credit against required recapture payments for
	certain school districts with excess facilities costs under the
	public school finance system.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 49, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 49.1571 to read as follows:
	Sec. 49.1571. CREDIT FOR CERTAIN FACILITIES COSTS. (a)
	This section applies only to a school district located in a county
	that borders on the Gulf of Mexico.
	(b) The total amount required under Section 49.153 for a
	school district to which this section applies to purchase
	attendance credit under this subchapter for any school year is
	reduced by an amount equal to the amount of money spent by the
	district in the preceding school year to:
	(1) perform necessary facility maintenance,
	renovations, and repairs attributable to damage resulting from
	natural conditions associated with the facility's proximity to the
	Gulf of Mexico; and
	(2) pay for property insurance to cover the costs of
	facility maintenance, renovations, and repairs described by
	Subdivision (1).
	(c) A reduction under Subsection (b) shall be made after
	making any reduction to which the district is entitled under
	Section 49.157 or another provision of this chapter.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the
	last day of the legislative session.