82R9717 CAS-D
By: Zedler H.B. No. 1922
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a temporary exemption for school districts from the
obligation to comply with certain unfunded state educational
mandates.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 11.004 to read as follows:
Sec. 11.004. TEMPORARY EXEMPTION FROM CERTAIN UNFUNDED
STATE EDUCATIONAL MANDATES. (a) In this section, "state
educational mandate" means a statutory provision the
implementation of which requires an expenditure by a school
district that would not have been required in the absence of the
statutory provision or a rule adopted under that provision.
(b) A school district is exempt from a state educational
mandate for which the legislature, for the state fiscal biennium,
has not appropriated money estimated to be sufficient to meet the
expenditure required by the mandate for that biennium unless the
mandate is necessary either to comply with federal law or to meet
eligibility standards for a federal entitlement that is sufficient
to meet the full expenditure required by the mandate, and the
federal law specifically contemplates action by a district for
compliance or eligibility.
(c) This section expires September 1, 2013.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.