79S10022 SLO-D
By: Hochberg H.B. No. 28
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of credits for textbooks or other instructional
materials in public schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 31.1011, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 31.1011. TEXTBOOK CREDITS. (a) A [The commissioner
shall implement a program to study the use of credits for textbooks.
The program shall be designed to allow a participating] school
district or open-enrollment charter school is entitled to receive
credit for textbooks purchased at a cost below the cost limit
established under Section 31.025(a).
(b) The credit is an amount equal to the difference between
the price paid for a textbook and the cost limit established under
Section 31.025(a) for that textbook multiplied by the number of
copies of that textbook the [participating] school district or
open-enrollment charter school purchases.
(c) Fifty percent of the total textbook credit of a
[participating] school district or open-enrollment charter school
shall be credited to the state textbook fund, and 50 percent of the
credit shall be credited to the [participating] district or school
to apply toward the requisition of additional textbooks, [or]
electronic textbooks, or technological equipment for use as
described by Section 31.002(4)(A) [on the conforming or
nonconforming list].
(d) The commissioner shall prepare a report relating to the
use of the textbook credit system and deliver the report to the 81st
[79th] Legislature. This subsection expires June 1, 2009.
[(e) This section expires September 1, 2005.]
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the
legislative session.