| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
| |
|
|
relating to the transfer of certain appropriations to the Texas |
|
|
Education Agency and the adjustment of appropriations for public |
|
|
school finance. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. (a) The amount of $311,000,000 of the |
|
|
unencumbered appropriations from the general revenue fund for the |
|
|
state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2019, made by S.B. 1, Acts |
|
|
of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017 (the General |
|
|
Appropriations Act), to the Health and Human Services Commission is |
|
|
transferred to the Texas Education Agency to be used by the agency |
|
|
during that state fiscal biennium as follows: |
|
|
(1) $150,000,000 is allocated to fund financial |
|
|
hardship grants under Subchapter H, Chapter 42, Education Code, as |
|
|
added by H.B. 21, Acts of the 85th Legislature, 1st Called Session, |
|
|
2017, or similar legislation that enacts a new hardship grant |
|
|
program for the benefit of school districts that would otherwise |
|
|
experience a significant loss of revenue during the 2017-2018 or |
|
|
2018-2019 school year; |
|
|
(2) $60,000,000 is allocated to fund payments to |
|
|
open-enrollment charter schools under Section 12.106(d), Education |
|
|
Code, as added by H.B. 21, Acts of the 85th Legislature, 1st Called |
|
|
Session, 2017, or similar legislation that provides for funding to |
|
|
open-enrollment charter schools for instructional facilities; |
|
|
(3) $60,000,000 is allocated for the existing debt |
|
|
allotment under Section 46.032, Education Code, as amended by H.B. |
|
|
21, Acts of the 85th Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2017, or |
|
|
similar legislation that increases the level of funding under that |
|
|
allotment; and |
|
|
(4) $41,000,000 is allocated for the small-sized |
|
|
district adjustment under Section 42.103, Education Code, as |
|
|
amended by H.B. 21, Acts of the 85th Legislature, 1st Called |
|
|
Session, 2017, or similar legislation that addresses the |
|
|
entitlement under that adjustment for certain school districts that |
|
|
contain less than 300 square miles. |
|
|
(b) The Health and Human Services Commission shall identify |
|
|
the strategies and objectives out of which the transfer under |
|
|
Subsection (a) of this section is to be made. |
|
|
(c) Notwithstanding the sum-certain appropriations |
|
|
specified in Rider 3, Chapter 605 (S.B. 1), Acts of the 85th |
|
|
Legislature, Regular Session, 2017 (the General Appropriations |
|
|
Act), to the bill pattern of the appropriations to the Texas |
|
|
Education Agency, the Legislative Budget Board shall determine the |
|
|
sum-certain appropriation to the Foundation School Program for each |
|
|
year of the state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2017, |
|
|
based on the amount specified in that rider, the other provisions of |
|
|
the General Appropriations Act, and other law, including the |
|
|
provisions of this Act. |
|
|
(d) If H.B. 21, Acts of the 85th Legislature, 1st Called |
|
|
Session, 2017, or another similar Act that addresses additional |
|
|
funding under the public school finance system for the components |
|
|
described in Subsection (a) of this section also transfers and |
|
|
allocates to those components the amount of unencumbered |
|
|
appropriations in the manner provided by that subsection, the |
|
|
transfer and allocation under Subsection (a) of this section does |
|
|
not occur. |
|
|
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect only if the 85th |
|
|
Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2017, enacts H.B. 21 or another |
|
|
similar Act that addresses additional funding under the public |
|
|
school finance system for the components described in Section 1 of |
|
|
this Act and H.B. 21 or that similar Act becomes law. If H.B. 21 or |
|
|
another similar Act described by this section does not become law, |
|
|
this Act has no effect. |
|
|
SECTION 3. Except as otherwise provided by this Act: |
|
|
(1) this Act takes effect immediately if it receives a |
|
|
vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
|
|
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution; and |
|
|
(2) if this Act does not receive the vote necessary for |
|
|
immediate effect, this Act takes effect on the 91st day after the |
|
|
last day of the legislative session. |
|
|
|
|
|
* * * * * |