84R7819 CAE-D
By: VanDeaver H.B. No. 1474
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the placement of money in the state instructional
materials fund for public schools to use to purchase instructional
materials.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 43.001, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
follows:
(d) Each biennium [year] the State Board of Education shall
set aside an amount equal to 50 percent of the [annual] distribution
for that biennium [year] from the permanent school fund to the
available school fund as provided by Section 5(a), Article VII,
Texas Constitution, to be placed, subject to the General
Appropriations Act, in the state instructional materials fund
established under Section 31.021.
(e) An amount of money equal to the total biennium
distribution required by Subsection (d) shall be placed in the
state instructional materials fund not later than the 30th day
after the date the first fiscal year of the biennium begins.
SECTION 2. Section 403.093(d), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(d) The comptroller shall transfer from the general revenue
fund to the foundation school fund an amount of money necessary to
fund the foundation school program as provided by Chapter 42,
Education Code. The comptroller shall make the transfers in
installments as necessary to comply with Section 42.259, Education
Code, and permit the Texas Education Agency, to the extent
authorized by the General Appropriations Act, to make temporary
transfers from the foundation school fund for payment of the
instructional materials allotment under Section 31.0211, Education
Code. Unless an earlier date is necessary for purposes of temporary
transfers for payment of the instructional materials allotment, an
[An] installment must be made not earlier than two days before the
date an installment to school districts is required by Section
42.259, Education Code, and must not exceed the amount necessary
for that payment and any temporary transfers for payment of the
instructional materials allotment.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.