85R3227 CAE-D
 
  By: Schubert H.B. No. 856
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to additional state aid for tax reduction provided to
  certain school districts for two additional school years.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 42.2516(c-1), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (c-1)  Revenue generated by the portion of a district's
  maintenance and operations tax rate included in calculating the
  district's compressed tax rate under Section 42.101(a-1) and local
  share under Section 42.252(a-1) is included in determining the
  amount to which a district is entitled under this section, but may
  not increase the total amount of revenue per weighted student to
  which the district is entitled under this section.  This subsection
  expires September 1, 2019 [2017].
         SECTION 2.  Sections 42.2518(a) and (e), Education Code, as
  effective until September 1, 2017, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  For the 2015-2016 through 2018-2019 [and 2016-2017]
  school years, a school district is entitled to additional state aid
  to the extent that state and local revenue under this chapter and
  Chapter 41 is less than the state and local revenue that would have
  been available to the district under Chapter 41 and this chapter as
  those chapters existed on September 1, 2015, if the increase in the
  residence homestead exemption under Section 1-b(c), Article VIII,
  Texas Constitution, and the additional limitation on tax increases
  under Section 1-b(d) of that article as proposed by S.J.R. 1, 84th
  Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, had not occurred.
         (e)  This section expires August 31, 2019 [2017].
         SECTION 3.  Section 42.2518(a), Education Code, as effective
  September 1, 2017, is amended to read as follows:
         (a)  Beginning with the 2019-2020 [2017-2018] school year, a
  school district is entitled to additional state aid to the extent
  that state and local revenue under this chapter and Chapter 41 is
  less than the state and local revenue that would have been available
  to the district under Chapter 41 and this chapter as those chapters
  existed on September 1, 2015, excluding any state aid that would
  have been provided under former Section 42.2516, if the increase in
  the residence homestead exemption under Section 1-b(c), Article
  VIII, Texas Constitution, and the additional limitation on tax
  increases under Section 1-b(d) of that article as proposed by
  S.J.R. 1, 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, had not
  occurred.
         SECTION 4.  Notwithstanding Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
  82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, the following
  provisions are effective September 1, 2019:
               (1)  Section 57.03, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
  82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which amended Section
  12.106(a), Education Code;
               (2)  Section 57.18, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
  82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which amended the
  heading to Section 42.2516, Education Code;
               (3)  Section 57.19, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
  82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which amended Section
  42.2516(a), Education Code;
               (4)  Section 57.23, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
  82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which amended Section
  42.253(h), Education Code;
               (5)  Section 57.29, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
  82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which amended Section
  26.08(i), Tax Code;
               (6)  Section 57.32(a), Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
  82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which repealed various
  provisions of the Education Code; and
               (7)  Section 57.32(b), Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
  82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which repealed Sections
  26.08(i-1) and (j), Tax Code.
         SECTION 5.  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.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2017.