HBA-MSH H.B. 933 77(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 933 By: Solis, Jim Public Education 4/9/2001 Introduced BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Under current law, a school district may not have a wealth per student that exceeds $295,000. The determination of whether a school district is at or below the equalized wealth level is calculated using the district's final weighted average daily attendance (WADA), and the number of attendance credits a district purchases or the number of nonresident students a district educates for a school year. Some school districts have students who attend magnet schools in another district. The school district is not allowed to include these students in their WADA and thus loses revenue to the magnet school. House Bill 933 includes students who reside in a school district but attend a magnet school in another district in calculations of a school district's wealth per student. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS House Bill 933 amends the Education Code to include among the factors that the commissioner of education is required to use when determining whether a school district has a wealth per student less than or equal to the equalized wealth level the average daily attendance of students who attend a magnet school in another school district whose territory overlaps that of the district and of other districts if the students previously attended school in the district and are eligible to attend school in the district. EFFECTIVE DATE On passage, or if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act takes effect September 1, 2001. The Act applies beginning with the 2001-2002 school year.