82S10268 KKA-D
By: Gallego H.B. No. 67
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the entitlement of school districts and open-enrollment
charter schools to a certain funding level and to the appropriation
of money from the economic stabilization fund to be used for public
education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as the Save Our Schools
Act.
SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 42, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 42.2532 to read as follows:
Sec. 42.2532. ENTITLEMENT TO FUNDING LEVELS PROVIDED DURING
THE 2010-2011 SCHOOL YEAR. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this chapter, each school district and open-enrollment charter
school is entitled to receive at least the amount of state and local
maintenance and operations funding per student in weighted average
daily attendance that the district would be entitled to receive
under this chapter as it existed on January 1, 2011.
SECTION 3. In addition to amounts appropriated to the Texas
Education Agency for the Foundation School Program by S.B. 2, Acts
of the 82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, or similar
legislation, the amount necessary to provide school districts and
open-enrollment charter schools with the full amount of funding to
which they are entitled under Section 42.2532, Education Code, as
added by this Act, for the state fiscal biennium beginning
September 1, 2011, as determined by the commissioner of education
in consultation with the Legislative Budget Board, is appropriated
from the economic stabilization fund to the Texas Education Agency
for the Foundation School Program under Chapter 42, Education Code.
SECTION 4. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
over another Act of the 82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011,
regardless of the relative dates of enactment.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect only if it receives a vote
of two-thirds of the members present in each house of the
legislature, as provided by Section 49-g(m), Article III, Texas
Constitution.
SECTION 6. 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the
legislative session.