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79R1194 ESH-D

By:  Branch                                                       H.B. No. 59 



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the legislature's obligation to provide state funding 
for the public education system.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 42.001, Education Code, is amended by 
adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:
	(c)  The legislature shall provide state funding in an amount 
that constitutes at least 55 percent of the cost of maintaining and 
operating the public school system.
	(d)  The legislature may not recapture more than 35 percent 
of a school district's revenue from ad valorem taxes for the 
maintenance of public schools in the district. In this subsection, 
"recapture" means a system under which a school district is 
required to use a portion of the district's local ad valorem tax 
revenue for the benefit of public schools in this state other than 
those in the district, including:
		(1)  the remittance of revenue to a state officer or 
agency for redistribution to other school districts;
		(2)  the remittance of revenue to another school 
district for use by that district; and
		(3)  the use of revenue to administer and operate a 
shared services program between the school district raising the 
revenue and one or more other school districts.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2006.