Bill Text: TX SB81 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to additional state aid for certain school districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-19 - Filed [SB81 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB81-Introduced.html
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| By: Perry | S.B. No. 81 | |
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| relating to additional state aid for certain school districts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 42, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 42.25162 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 42.25162. ADDITIONAL STATE AID FOR CERTAIN DISTRICTS. | ||
| (a) This section applies only to a school district determined by | ||
| the commissioner to be the predominant provider of public education | ||
| in a county of this state based on the following factors: | ||
| (1) the extent to which the district is the public | ||
| education provider for substantially all of the students residing | ||
| in the county who attend school in a school district, other than a | ||
| minimal number of students in the county who reside in the | ||
| attendance zone of another school district; | ||
| (2) the degree of hardship that the district's | ||
| students would experience if the district were to discontinue | ||
| providing public education and the district's students were | ||
| required to attend school in another school district; and | ||
| (3) any other relevant factor identified by the | ||
| commissioner. | ||
| (b) A school district is entitled to the additional state | ||
| aid that would have been provided to the district for the current | ||
| school year under Section 42.2516, as that section existed on | ||
| January 1, 2017, if: | ||
| (1) the district demonstrates, to the satisfaction of | ||
| the commissioner, that the failure to receive that state aid would | ||
| require the district to close at least one campus; and | ||
| (2) the district received additional state aid under | ||
| Section 42.2516, for: | ||
| (A) the 2015-2016 school year; or | ||
| (B) the 2016-2017 school year. | ||
| (c) In implementing this section, the commissioner shall | ||
| make determinations regarding additional state aid under Section | ||
| 42.2516, as that section existed January 1, 2017, using the | ||
| percentage reduction for purposes of former Section 42.2516(i) | ||
| specified by appropriation for the 2016-2017 school year. | ||
| (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including | ||
| Section 42.2528, if the commissioner determines that the amount | ||
| appropriated for the purposes of the Foundation School Program | ||
| exceeds the amount to which school districts are entitled under | ||
| this chapter, the commissioner by rule shall use the excess funds to | ||
| provide funding to school districts entitled to funds under this | ||
| section. | ||
| (e) The commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to | ||
| implement this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 42.2528(a), Education Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Except as provided by Section 42.25162, notwithstanding | ||
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| determines that the amount appropriated for the purposes of the | ||
| Foundation School Program exceeds the amount to which school | ||
| districts are entitled under this chapter, the commissioner by rule | ||
| shall establish a grant program through which excess funds are | ||
| awarded as grants for the purchase of video equipment, or for the | ||
| reimbursement of costs for previously purchased video equipment, | ||
| used for monitoring special education classrooms or other special | ||
| education settings required under Section 29.022. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
