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  By: Rinaldi H.B. No. 1411
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the cost of an attendance credit under the public school
  finance system.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  This Act may be cited as the Robin Hood Relief
  Act.
         SECTION 2.  Section 41.093, Education Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (b-2) to read as
  follows:
         (a)  Subject to Subsections [Subsection] (b-1) and (b-2),
  the cost of each credit is an amount equal to the greater of:
               (1)  the amount of the district's maintenance and
  operations tax revenue per student in weighted average daily
  attendance for the school year for which the contract is executed;
  or
               (2)  the amount of the statewide district average of
  maintenance and operations tax revenue per student in weighted
  average daily attendance for the school year preceding the school
  year for which the contract is executed.
         (b-2)  If the amount of maintenance and operations tax
  revenue expended by a school district per student in weighted
  average daily attendance exceeds the amount expended during the
  preceding school year, the cost of an attendance credit for the
  district is reduced by the percentage by which the current
  expenditure per student exceeds the expenditure per student during
  the preceding school year.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.