By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 962

(In the Senate - Filed February 27, 2007; March 7, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Education; March 14, 2007, rereferred to Subcommittee on Base Realignment and Closure; April 16, 2007, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute from Committee on Veteran Affairs and Military Installations by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 16, 2007, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 962 By: Shapleigh

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to funding under the instructional facilities allotment for school districts affected by troop reassignments at military installations.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 46.006, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsection (c-2) and amending Subsection (d) to read as follows:

(c-2) A district's wealth per student is reduced by 25 percent for purposes of this section if the district demonstrates to the commissioner's satisfaction that the district must construct, acquire, renovate, or improve one or more instructional facilities to serve the children of military personnel transferred to a military installation in or near the district under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (10 U.S.C. Section 2687). The reduction is in addition to any reduction under Subsection (a), (b), or (c) and is computed before the district's wealth per student is reduced under those subsections, if applicable. This subsection expires September 1, 2012.

(d) The commissioner shall adjust the rankings after making the reductions in wealth per student required by Subsections (a), (b), [and] (c), and (c-2).

SECTION 2. Effective September 1, 2012, Subsection (d), Section 46.006, Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(d) The commissioner shall adjust the rankings after making the reductions in wealth per student required by Subsections (a), (b), and (c).

SECTION 3. Except as otherwise provided by this Act, this Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

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