79S30311 ESH-D

By:  Solomons                                                     H.B. No. 22 



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to state support of the public school system.                        
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 42, Education Code, is 
amended by adding Section 42.2513 to read as follows:
	Sec. 42.2513.  APPROPRIATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION.  In each 
biennial General Appropriations Act, the legislature shall set the 
basic allotment under Section 42.101 and the dollar amount 
guaranteed level of state and local funds per weighted student per 
cent of tax effort ("GL") under Section 42.302 for each state fiscal 
year at:
		(1)  the levels necessary for the amount of state funds 
to which all school districts are jointly entitled under this 
chapter, together with state funds to which all school districts 
are jointly entitled for that state fiscal year under any other law 
that provides funding for the general maintenance and operation of 
the system of public free schools, to permit compliance with the 
minimum requirement of Section 1, Article VII, Texas Constitution; 
or
		(2)  levels greater than the levels specified by 
Subdivision (1).    
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007, but only 
if the constitutional amendment proposed by __.J.R. No. ___, 79th 
Legislature, 3rd Called Session, 2006, is approved by the voters. 
If that amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act has no 
effect.