By:  Madden                                           H.B. No. 1283
       73R5454 CAS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to school district expenditures for administrative
    1-3  purposes.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 23, Education Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 23.51 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 23.51.  LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENDITURES.  (a)
    1-8  In this section:
    1-9              (1)  "Administrative purposes" include general
   1-10  administration of a school district, development of personnel and
   1-11  curriculum, data processing, and operation and management of
   1-12  schools.
   1-13              (2)  "Instructional purposes" include any activity
   1-14  dealing directly with the instruction of students, including
   1-15  instruction through the use of computers.
   1-16        (b)  A school district's expenditures for administrative
   1-17  purposes may not exceed the following amounts:
   1-18              (1)  for the 1993-1994 school year, 22 percent of the
   1-19  amount the district spends for instructional purposes;
   1-20              (2)  for the 1994-1995 school year, 20 percent of the
   1-21  amount the district spends for instructional purposes;
   1-22              (3)  for the 1995-1996 school year, 17 percent of the
   1-23  amount the district spends for instructional purposes; and
   1-24              (4)  for the 1996-1997 and following school years, 15
    2-1  percent of the amount the district spends for instructional
    2-2  purposes or a lower amount established by the Legislative Education
    2-3  Board.
    2-4        (c)  Any amount by which a district's spending for
    2-5  administrative purposes exceeds the limitation established under
    2-6  Subsection (b) of this section shall be deducted from the amount
    2-7  the school district is entitled to receive for the following school
    2-8  year from the foundation school fund.  If a district that exceeds
    2-9  the limitation is not entitled to receive money from the foundation
   2-10  school fund, the amount by which the district's spending for
   2-11  administrative purposes exceeds the limitation shall be deducted
   2-12  from the amount the district is entitled to receive for the
   2-13  following school year from central education district tax
   2-14  collections under Section 16.501 of this code.
   2-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-21  passage, and it is so enacted.