83R5209 KKA-D
By: King of Taylor H.B. No. 863
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to information regarding unfunded state educational
mandates imposed on a school district.
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. INFORMATION REGARDING 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) As soon as possible after a regular or special session
of the legislature ends, the commissioner shall prepare and submit
to the Legislative Budget Board a list of all state educational
mandates. Not later than the 30th day after receipt of the list,
the Legislative Budget Board shall determine for each mandate:
(1) whether the mandate requires more than a minimal
expenditure; and
(2) if the mandate requires more than a minimal
expenditure, whether the legislature has appropriated money
estimated to be sufficient to meet the expenditure required by the
mandate at the time the mandate is effective.
(c) Promptly after each review of state educational
mandates required by Subsection (b), the agency and the Legislative
Budget Board shall:
(1) post on the Internet websites maintained by the
agency and board a list of each state educational mandate that
requires more than a minimal expenditure and for which the
legislature did not appropriate sufficient money to meet the
required expenditure; and
(2) notify each member of the legislature that the
information described in Subdivision (1) is available on the
Internet websites.
SECTION 2. 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, 2013.