By Hernandez H.B. No. 2369
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to recovery of over allocated Foundation School Funds.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 16.255, Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 16.255. Falsification of Records; Report. (b) In the
1-7 event of over allocation <overallocation> of state funds, as
1-8 determined by the State Board of Education or the state auditor by
1-9 reference to the director's report, the Central Education Agency,
1-10 shall by withholding from subsequent allocations of state funds or
1-11 by requesting a refund, recover from the district an amount, or
1-12 amounts, equal to the over allocation <overallocation>.
1-13 SECTION 2. Section 16.259, Education Code, is amended to
1-14 read as follows:
1-15 Sec. 16.259. RECOVERY OF OVER ALLOCATED FUNDS. In the event
1-16 of over allocation of state funds, as determined by the State Board
1-17 of Education or the state auditor, the Central Education Agency,
1-18 shall by withholding from subsequent allocations of state funds or
1-19 by requesting a refund, recover from the district an amount, or
1-20 amounts, equal to the over allocation.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.