TO:	Honorable Dan Huberty, Chair, House Committee on Public Education
FROM:	Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB325 by Dutton (Relating to including students enrolled in open-enrollment charter schools in the determination of a district's weighted average daily attendance for purposes of complying with equalized wealth level requirements.), As Introduced

The bill would reduce wealth equalization within the Foundation School Program by including students that are not served by a school district in determining whether the district is subject to wealth equalization under Chapter 41, Education Code and the amount of local revenue recaptured to comply with wealth equalization provisions. Students who are not served by the school district that would be included in the count of weighted students for the purpose of Chapter 41 calculations would include all students residing within the boundaries of the school district that attend an open-enrollment charter school.  The bill would provide significant benefit to school districts in the two highest quintiles of wealth per weighted student and no benefit to school districts that currently have property wealth per weighted student below statutory equalized wealth levels.