By Shapiro                                              S.B. No. 68
         76R1815 ESH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to funding for certain fast-growth school districts.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 42, Education Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Section 42.106 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 42.106.  FAST GROWTH ADJUSTMENT.  (a)  The basic
 1-7     allotment for certain fast-growth districts is adjusted in
 1-8     accordance with this section.  In this section:
 1-9                 (1)  "ABA" is the district's adjusted basic allotment
1-10     determined under Section 42.102 or adjusted allotment determined
1-11     under Section 42.103;
1-12                 (2)  "ADA" is the number of students in average daily
1-13     attendance for which the district is entitled to an allotment under
1-14     Section 42.101;
1-15                 (3)  "Current school year" means the school year for
1-16     which an adjustment or computation under this section is made;
1-17                 (4)  "FGABA" is the adjusted basic allotment per
1-18     student to which the district is entitled under this section;
1-19                 (5)  "PADA" is the number of students in average daily
1-20     attendance for which the district was entitled to an allotment
1-21     under Section 42.101 for the school year that began five years
1-22     before the current school year; and
1-23                 (6)  "SAG" is the average rate of growth in average
1-24     daily attendance for all districts in the state for the five
 2-1     preceding school years, which is computed by subtracting the
 2-2     statewide average daily attendance for the school year that began
 2-3     five years before the current school year from the statewide
 2-4     average daily attendance for the current school year, dividing the
 2-5     difference by the statewide average daily attendance for the school
 2-6     year that began five years before the current school year, and
 2-7     multiplying the resulting quotient by 100.
 2-8           (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (c) or (d), the basic
 2-9     allotment of a school district that has at least 1,000 students in
2-10     ADA and that has in the preceding five years grown at a rate at
2-11     least equal to the average rate of growth for all districts in the
2-12     state is adjusted by the formula:
2-13               FGABA = ABA X (1 + ((ADA/PADA) -1)/(SAG + 100))
2-14           (c)  A district's FGABA may not exceed the amount computed by
2-15     multiplying the district's ABA by 1.03.
2-16           (d)  A district in which ADA exceeds PADA by more than 3,500
2-17     is entitled to an FGABA equal to the greater of:
2-18                 (1)  the amount computed under Subsection (b); or
2-19                 (2)  the amount computed by multiplying the district's
2-20     ABA by 1.01.
2-21           (e)  The commissioner shall adopt rules to implement this
2-22     section over a four-year period beginning with the  1999-2000
2-23     school year.  This subsection expires September 1, 2004.
2-24           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1999-2000
2-25     school year.
2-26           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 3-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 3-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 3-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 3-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 3-5     passage, and it is so enacted.