81R5167 PAM-D
By: Van de Putte S.B. No. 1031
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to creating a county task force to study collaborative
methods for public education cost savings in certain counties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that promoting cost
savings through collaborative agreements between public school
districts and the local governments in which the districts are
located serves an important purpose in promoting the provision of
quality educational services.
SECTION 2. This Act applies only to a county with a
population of more than one million and in which more than 80
percent of the population resides in a single municipality.
SECTION 3. (a) The County Task Force on Public Education
Efficiencies is composed of seven members appointed as follows:
(1) three members appointed by the county judge of the
county;
(2) three members appointed by the presiding officer
of the governing body of the largest municipality in the county; and
(3) one member appointed jointly by the county judge
of the county and the presiding officer of the governing body of the
largest municipality in the county.
(b) The members of the County Task Force on Public Education
Efficiencies appointed under Subsection (a) of this section shall
elect a presiding officer of the task force.
(c) Appointments to the County Task Force on Public
Education Efficiencies shall be made without regard to race, color,
disability, sex, religion, age, or national origin of the
appointees.
SECTION 4. The County Task Force on Public Education
Efficiencies shall:
(1) research and investigate the feasibility of:
(A) using cooperative agreements between public
school districts and municipalities or counties in which a district
is located to achieve cost savings on public school functions
outside of the classroom; and
(B) reallocating the cost savings identified
under Paragraph (A) of this subdivision to classroom functions; and
(2) make recommendations regarding:
(A) the feasibility of general use of cooperative
agreements as described by Subdivision (1)(A) of this section; and
(B) methods for reallocating cost savings as
described by Subdivision (1)(B) of this section.
SECTION 5. Not later than January 1, 2011, the County Task
Force on Public Education Efficiencies shall submit its findings
and recommendations to each member of the state legislature who
represents the county and to the standing committees of the senate
and house of representatives having primary jurisdiction over
public education.
SECTION 6. The County Task Force on Public Education
Efficiencies is abolished and this Act expires on September 1,
2011.
SECTION 7. 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, 2009.