| TO: | Honorable Leticia Van de Putte, Chair, Senate Committee on Veteran Affairs & Military Installations |
| FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | SB962 by Shapleigh (Relating to funding under the instructional facilities allotment for school districts affected by troop reassignments at military installations. ), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
The bill would provide for a school district’s wealth per student to be reduced by 25 percent if the district can demonstrate that it must construct, aquire, renovate, or improve on or more instructional facilities to serve the children of military personnel who have been transferred to a military base in or near the school district under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990. The reduction in wealth per student would be in addition to other prescribed reductions related to the priority ranking.
The bill could alter the final outcome of the Instructional Facilities Allotments (IFA) awards process in terms of which districts receive awards, but it would not increase the cost of the IFA program. It is assumed that the establishing and aministering a process by which a district could demonstrate eligibility for the proposed adjustment for IFA priority ranking would not significantly affect the operations of the Texas Education Agency.
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.
School districts located near military bases could benefit from the bill’s provisions if the reduction in wealth per student allows them access to funds that would not h
| Source Agencies: | 701 Central Education Agency
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| LBB Staff: | JOB, ES, UP, JGM, JSp
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