By: King of Hemphill (Senate Sponsor - Taylor) H.B. No. 663
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 16, 2019;
  April 17, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Education; May 17, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 1;
  May 17, 2019, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 663 By:  Taylor
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to proclamations for the production of instructional
  materials and selection of instructional materials by public
  schools.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 31.002, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subdivision (1-b) to read as follows:
               (1-b)  "Proclamation" means a request for production of
  instructional materials issued by the State Board of Education.
         SECTION 2.  Section 31.022, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsections (b-1) and (b-2) and amending Subsection (f) to
  read as follows:
         (b-1)  For any state fiscal biennium, the board may only
  issue proclamations for instructional materials in which the total
  projected cost of instructional materials under the proclamations
  does not exceed 75 percent of the total amount used to fund the
  instructional materials and technology allotment under Section
  31.0211 for that biennium.
         (b-2)  In determining the disbursement of money to the
  available school fund and the amount of that disbursement that will
  be used, in accordance with Section 43.001(d), to fund the
  instructional materials and technology allotment under Section
  31.0211, the board must consider the cost of all instructional
  materials and technology requirements for that state fiscal
  biennium.
         (f)  The board shall amend any proclamation [request for
  production] issued for the purchase of instructional materials to
  conform to the instructional materials funding levels provided by
  the General Appropriations Act for the year of implementation and
  to comply with Subsection (b-1).
         SECTION 3.  Sections 31.101(d) and (e), Education Code, are
  repealed.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
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