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1	1	By: Seliger S.B. No. 401
2	2	(In the Senate - Filed January 5, 2009; February 17, 2009,
3	3	read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
4	4	March 9, 2009, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
5	5	Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; March 9, 2009,
6	6	sent to printer.)
7	7	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 401 By: Averitt
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10	10	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
11	11	AN ACT
12	12	relating to eligibility for the small and mid-sized district
13	13	adjustment under the public school finance system.
14	14	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
15	15	SECTION 1. Section 42.2516, Education Code, is amended by
16	16	amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (h-2) to read as
17	17	follows:
18	18	(b) Subject to Subsections (b-1), (b-2), (f-1), (g), [and]
19	19	(h), and (h-2), but notwithstanding any other provision of this
20	20	title, a school district is entitled to state revenue necessary to
21	21	provide the district with the sum of:
22	22	(1) the amount of state revenue necessary to maintain
23	23	state and local revenue per student in weighted average daily
24	24	attendance in the amount equal to the greater of:
25	25	(A) the amount of state and local revenue per
26	26	student in weighted average daily attendance for the maintenance
27	27	and operations of the district available to the district for the
28	28	2005-2006 school year;
29	29	(B) the amount of state and local revenue per
30	30	student in weighted average daily attendance for the maintenance
31	31	and operations of the district to which the district would have been
32	32	entitled for the 2006-2007 school year under this chapter, as it
33	33	existed on January 1, 2006, or, if the district would have been
34	34	subject to Chapter 41, as that chapter existed on January 1, 2006,
35	35	the amount to which the district would have been entitled under that
36	36	chapter, based on the funding elements in effect for the 2005-2006
37	37	school year, if the district imposed a maintenance and operations
38	38	tax at the rate adopted by the district for the 2005 tax year; or
39	39	(C) the amount of state and local revenue per
40	40	student in weighted average daily attendance for the maintenance
41	41	and operations of the district to which the district would have been
42	42	entitled for the 2006-2007 school year under this chapter, as it
43	43	existed on January 1, 2006, or, if the district would have been
44	44	subject to Chapter 41, as that chapter existed on January 1, 2006,
45	45	the amount to which the district would have been entitled under that
46	46	chapter, based on the funding elements in effect for the 2005-2006
47	47	school year, if the district imposed a maintenance and operations
48	48	tax at the rate equal to the rate described by Section 26.08(i) or
49	49	(k)(1), Tax Code, as applicable, for the 2006 tax year;
50	50	(2) an amount equal to the product of $2,500
51	51	multiplied by the number of classroom teachers, full-time
52	52	librarians, full-time counselors certified under Subchapter B,
53	53	Chapter 21, and full-time school nurses employed by the district
54	54	and entitled to a minimum salary under Section 21.402; and
55	55	(3) an amount equal to the product of $275 multiplied
56	56	by the number of students in average daily attendance in grades nine
57	57	through 12 in the district.
58	58	(h-2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the
59	59	repeal of Section 42.103(e) by S.B. No. 401, Acts of the 81st
60	60	Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, may not increase the amount of
61	61	state and local funds to which a school district is entitled under
62	62	Subsection (b).
63	63	SECTION 2. Subsection (e), Section 42.103, Education Code,
64	64	is repealed.
65	65	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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