By: Zwiener H.B. No. 95
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to requiring the legislature to set the basic allotment
  and guaranteed yield under the public school finance system at
  certain amounts in the General Appropriations Act.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 48, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 48.2511 to read as follows:
         Sec. 48.2511.  APPROPRIATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION. (a) In
  each biennial General Appropriations Act, the legislature shall set
  the basic allotment under Section 48.051 and the dollar amount
  guaranteed level of state and local funds per weighted student per
  cent of tax effort ("GL") under Section 48.202 for each state fiscal
  year at:
               (1)  the amounts necessary for the amount of state
  funds to which all school districts are jointly entitled under this
  chapter, together with state funds to which all school districts
  are jointly entitled for that state fiscal year under any other law
  that provides funding for the general maintenance and operation of
  the system of public free schools, to constitute, as determined by
  the legislature, at least 50 percent of the cost of maintaining and
  operating that system; or
               (2)  amounts greater than the amounts specified by
  Subdivision (1).
         (b)  For purposes of calculating the amount of state funds
  required under Subsection (a), the legislature may not consider
  money that is attributable to an ad valorem tax imposed by a school
  district on property located in the school district, including any
  revenue the school district is required to transfer to the state to
  reduce the school district's local revenue level in accordance with
  Chapter 49.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect December 1, 2023.