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Floor Packet Page No. 17                                                    



	

Amend CSHB 1 in SECTION 1 by inserting the following 

appropriately-numbered rider to read as follows:

	"     . UNFUNDED PUBLIC EDUCATION MANDATES. (a)  From the funds 

appropriated by this Act, the Texas Education Agency shall publish, 

on or before the September 1st following a regular session of the 

legislature and on or before the 90th day after the last day of a 

special session of the legislature, a list of legislative public 

education mandates for which the legislature has not provided 

reimbursement as provided by this rider and that were enacted by the 

legislature during that legislative session.   In preparing the 

list of legislative public education mandates, the Texas Education 

Agency shall (1)  remove from the list of legislative public 

education mandates for a previous legislative session a legislative 

public education mandate for which the legislature has provided 

reimbursement as provided by this rider or that is no longer in 

effect; and (2) add to the list a legislative public education 

mandate from a previous legislative session for which reimbursement 

was provided as provided by this rider in the previous session but 

for which reimbursement was not provided in the most recent regular 

session or in any subsequent special session.  A legislative public 

education mandate is considered to be a mandate for which the 

legislature has provided reimbursement if the legislature 

appropriates or otherwise provides funds for a state fiscal year, 

other than revenue of the school district, estimated to be 

sufficient to meet the cost incurred by all affected school 

districts in the fiscal year of financing the expenditure. The 

Texas Education Agency shall deliver the list prepared under this 

rider to the secretary of state for publication in the Texas 

Register.  Additionally, from the funds appropriated by this Act, 

the Agency shall, before September 1st of the even-numbered year 

before the second anniversary of the date of enactment of a 

legislative public education mandate identified by the Agency under 

this rider: (1)  review the legislative history of the mandate; (2)  

conduct an evaluation on the benefits of the mandate and the costs 

of the mandate on affected political subdivisions; and (3) present 

a written report to the legislature and the governor on the Agency's 

findings.  As used in this rider, "legislative public education 

mandate" means a statutory provision enacted by the legislature 

that requires a school district to establish, expand, or modify an 

activity in a way that requires an expenditure of revenue that would 

not have been required in the absence of the provision.