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Floor Packet Page No. 190                                                   



	

Amend HB 2 in ARTICLE 2, PART C, of the bill by inserting the 

following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering the 

subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:

	SECTION 2C. __. Chapter 4, Education Code, is amended by 

adding Section 4.003 to read as follows:

	Sec. 4.003.  COMPLIANCE WITH CERTAIN UNFUNDED STATE MANDATES 

NOT REQUIRED. (a) For purposes of this section:

		(1)  "HB 2 mandate" means a provision of a state statute 

amended or added by HB 2, Acts of the 79th Legislature, First Called 

Session, 2005, or rule adopted under a statute amended or added by 

HB 2, Acts of the 79th Legislature, First Called Session, 2005, that 

requires:

			(A) school district action to implement the 

provisions; and         

			(B)  an expenditure by a school district that 

would not have been required in the absence of the provision.

		(2)  "Unfunded HB 2 mandate" means an HB 2 mandate for 

which the legislature has not appropriated funds estimated to be 

sufficient to meet the state's share of financing the expenditure.

	(b)  The Legislative Budget Board shall conduct a study of HB 

2 mandates. The study shall identify each HB 2 mandate and each 

unfunded HB 2 mandate.

	(c)  Each school district shall cooperate with the board by 

providing information relating to the district's cost of 

implementing an HB 2 mandate. At the board's request, the agency, 

state auditor, comptroller, and other state officers and agencies 

shall assist the board in conducting the study and analyzing 

information obtained from school districts.

	(d)  Not later than November 1, 2005, the board shall:                  

		(1)  prepare a certified list of each unfunded HB 2 

mandate; and     

		(2)  deliver the certified list to the secretary of 

state for publication in the Texas Register.

	(e)  A school district is not required to comply with an 

unfunded HB 2 mandate that appears on the certified list published 

under Subsection (d).