Bill Text: TX SB91 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an interim study to determine public school facility needs.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-31 - Referred to Education [SB91 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB91-Introduced.html
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| By: Lucio | S.B. No. 91 | |
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| relating to an interim study to determine public school facility | ||
| needs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 44, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 44.904 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 44.904. INTERIM STUDY REGARDING PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITY | ||
| NEEDS; ADVISORY PANEL. (a) The commissioner shall establish an | ||
| advisory panel to conduct a study of public school facility needs. | ||
| The advisory panel is composed of six members as follows: | ||
| (1) one member is the state demographer or the state | ||
| demographer's designee; | ||
| (2) one member who is the superintendent or chief | ||
| financial officer of a small school district; | ||
| (3) one member who is the superintendent or chief | ||
| financial officer of a midsize school district; | ||
| (4) one member who is the superintendent or chief | ||
| financial officer of an urban school district; | ||
| (5) one member who is the superintendent or chief | ||
| financial officer of a rural school district; and | ||
| (6) one member who is the superintendent or chief | ||
| financial officer of a fast growth school district. | ||
| (b) Each member of the advisory panel, other than the state | ||
| demographer or the state demographer's designee, must represent a | ||
| school district that, as of September 1, 2011, has a wealth per | ||
| student, as defined by Section 41.001, that is less than the wealth | ||
| per student of the Austin Independent School District. | ||
| (c) For purposes of Subsection (a), a fast growth school | ||
| district is a school district that has an enrollment of more than | ||
| 3,400 students and has had an increase in student enrollment of at | ||
| least 10 percent over the five school years preceding the 2011-2012 | ||
| school year or a district that has had a net increase in enrollment | ||
| of at least 5,000 students in any one of the five school years | ||
| preceding the 2011-2012 school year. The commissioner shall by | ||
| rule establish criteria for the other district categories specified | ||
| by Subsection (a). | ||
| (d) The commissioner shall designate one member of the | ||
| advisory panel as the presiding officer. | ||
| (e) This subsection applies only to a school district that, | ||
| as of September 1, 2011, has a wealth per student, as defined by | ||
| Section 41.001, that is less than the wealth per student of the | ||
| Austin Independent School District. The state demographer shall | ||
| design a survey for requesting that each school district project | ||
| the facility needs of the district for five consecutive school | ||
| years, beginning with the 2013-2014 school year, by: | ||
| (1) identifying the number of: | ||
| (A) new facilities needed; and | ||
| (B) potential projects requiring the expansion | ||
| or renovation of existing facilities; and | ||
| (2) classifying each item listed in Subdivision (1) by | ||
| academic level and purpose, including administrative, | ||
| instructional, athletic, or support. | ||
| (f) After the state demographer has designed the survey, the | ||
| advisory panel shall review the survey to determine whether: | ||
| (1) the survey is properly designed to obtain the | ||
| information intended to be obtained; and | ||
| (2) each school district can reasonably complete the | ||
| survey. | ||
| (g) The advisory panel may require the state demographer to | ||
| make changes to the survey, including providing or requesting | ||
| additional information. | ||
| (h) After the advisory panel approves the survey, each | ||
| regional education service center shall: | ||
| (1) distribute the survey to each school district | ||
| described by Subsection (e) in the service center's region; | ||
| (2) provide a method for each district to return the | ||
| survey results to the service center; and | ||
| (3) report to the advisory panel the results collected | ||
| in response to the survey. | ||
| (i) Not later than September 1, 2012, the advisory panel | ||
| shall report the results of the survey and any conclusions the | ||
| advisory panel draws from the results to the agency, the governor, | ||
| the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of | ||
| representatives, and the standing legislative committees with | ||
| primary jurisdiction over public education. | ||
| (j) In addition to the survey described by Subsection (e), | ||
| the state demographer shall provide to the advisory panel a | ||
| projection of student enrollment growth in each school district in | ||
| this state over the 10-year period beginning with the 2013-2014 | ||
| school year. | ||
| (k) This section expires September 1, 2013. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2011. | ||
