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