Texas 2009 - 81st Regular

Texas House Bill HB1512 Compare Versions

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1	1	81R3779 CAE-D
2	2	By: Herrero H.B. No. 1512
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to use of weighted average daily attendance in computing
8	8	the high school allotment under the Foundation School Program.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 42.2516(b), Education Code, is amended
11	11	to read as follows:
12	12	(b) Subject to Subsections (b-1), (b-2), (f-1), (g), and
13	13	(h), but notwithstanding any other provision of this title, a
14	14	school district is entitled to state revenue necessary to provide
15	15	the district with the sum of:
16	16	(1) The amount of state revenue necessary to maintain
17	17	state and local revenue per student in weighted average daily
18	18	attendance in the amount equal to the greater of:
19	19	(A) the amount of state and local revenue per
20	20	student in weighted average daily attendance for the maintenance
21	21	and operations of the district available to the district for the
22	22	2005-2006 school year;
23	23	(B) the amount of state and local revenue per
24	24	student in weighted average daily attendance for the maintenance
25	25	and operations of the district to which the district would have been
26	26	entitled for the 2006-2007 school year under this chapter, as it
27	27	existed on January 1, 2006, or, if the district would have been
28	28	subject to Chapter 41, as that chapter existed on January 1, 2006,
29	29	the amount to which the district would have been entitled under that
30	30	chapter, based on the funding elements in effect for the 2005-2006
31	31	school year, if the district imposed a maintenance and operations
32	32	tax at the rate adopted by the district for the 2005 tax year; or
33	33	(C) the amount of state and local revenue per
34	34	student in weighted average daily attendance for the maintenance
35	35	and operations of the district to which the district would have been
36	36	entitled for the 2006-2007 school year under this chapter, as it
37	37	existed on January 1, 2006, or, if the district would have been
38	38	subject to Chapter 41, as that chapter existed on January 1, 2006,
39	39	the amount to which the district would have been entitled under that
40	40	chapter, based on the funding elements in effect for the 2005-2006
41	41	school year, if the district imposed a maintenance and operations
42	42	tax at the rate equal to the rate described by Section 26.08(i) or
43	43	(k)(1), Tax Code, as applicable, for the 2006 tax year;
44	44	(2) an amount equal to the product of $2,500
45	45	multiplied by the number of classroom teachers, full-time
46	46	librarians, full-time counselors certified under Subchapter B,
47	47	Chapter 21, and full-time school nurses employed by the district
48	48	and entitled to a minimum salary under Section 21.402; and
49	49	(3) an amount equal to the product of $275 multiplied
50	50	by the number of students in weighted average daily attendance in
51	51	grades nine through 12 in the district, as determined by dividing
52	52	the sum of the district's allotments for students in grades nine
53	53	through 12 under Subchapter B and Sections 42.151-42.154, 42.156,
54	54	and 42.157 by the basic allotment.
55	55	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.