By: Holzheauser H.B. No. 348
73R1723 CAS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the guaranteed yield component of the foundation school
1-3 program.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 16.302, Education Code, is amended by
1-6 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-7 (c) The Central Education Agency shall adjust the formula
1-8 provided by Subsection (a) of this section as necessary so that a
1-9 district that transfers students under Section 21.082 of this code
1-10 is guaranteed the same allotment as it would have been guaranteed
1-11 if its transferring students were counted in its average daily
1-12 attendance. The district to which the students transfer may not
1-13 receive an allotment under this section for the transferring
1-14 students but may require the district transferring the students to
1-15 pay the amount the receiving district would have received if the
1-16 transferring students were counted in its average daily attendance
1-17 for purposes of this section.
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 21.062, Education Code, is amended to
1-19 read as follows:
1-20 Sec. 21.062. Transfer of State Funds. Upon the filing and
1-21 certification of the transfer of any such child in the manner
1-22 timely and in the form prescribed by regulations of the State Board
1-23 of Education, the state per capita apportionment shall transfer
1-24 with the child; and, except as provided by Section 16.302(c) of
2-1 this code, for purposes of computing state allotments to districts
2-2 eligible under the Foundation School Program Act, the attendance of
2-3 the child prior to the date of transfer shall be counted by the
2-4 transfer sending district and the attendance of the child after the
2-5 date of transfer shall be counted by the transfer receiving
2-6 district.
2-7 SECTION 3. Section 21.082(a), Education Code, is amended to
2-8 read as follows:
2-9 (a) A school district that does not offer each grade level
2-10 from kindergarten through grade 12 may provide by contract for
2-11 students residing in the district who are at grade levels not
2-12 offered by the district to be educated at those grade levels in one
2-13 or more other accredited districts. Except as provided by Section
2-14 16.302(c) of this code, in <In> each contract, the districts also
2-15 shall agree to the transfer of school funds or other payments
2-16 proportionate to the transfer of attendance.
2-17 SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 1993-1994
2-18 school year.
2-19 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-25 passage, and it is so enacted.