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1		-	By: VanDeaver, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Eltife) H.B. No. 1474
2		-	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2015;
3		-	May 7, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
4		-	Education; May 21, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:
5		-	Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 21, 2015, sent to printer.)
6		-	Click here to see the committee vote
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9		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
10	4		AN ACT
11	5		relating to the placement of money in the state instructional
12	6		materials fund and payment of the instructional materials
13	7		allotment.
14	8		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
15	9		SECTION 1. Sections 31.0211(a) and (d), Education Code, are
16	10		amended to read as follows:
17	11		(a) A school district is entitled to an [annual] allotment
18	12		each biennium from the state instructional materials fund for each
19	13		student enrolled in the district on a date during the last year of
20	14		the preceding biennium [school year] specified by the
21	15		commissioner. The commissioner shall determine the amount of the
22	16		allotment per student each biennium [year] on the basis of the
23	17		amount of money available in the state instructional materials fund
24	18		to fund the allotment. An allotment under this section shall be
25	19		transferred from the state instructional materials fund to the
26	20		credit of the district's instructional materials account as
27	21		provided by Section 31.0212.
28	22		(d) Each biennium [year] a school district shall use the
29	23		district's allotment under this section to purchase, in the
30	24		following order:
31	25		(1) instructional materials necessary to permit the
32	26		district to certify that the district has instructional materials
33	27		that cover all elements of the essential knowledge and skills of the
34	28		required curriculum, other than physical education, for each grade
35	29		level as required by Section 28.002; and
36	30		(2) any other instructional materials or
37	31		technological equipment as determined by the district.
38	32		SECTION 2. Section 31.0212(a), Education Code, is amended
39	33		to read as follows:
40	34		(a) The commissioner shall maintain an instructional
41	35		materials account for each school district. In the first year of
42	36		each biennium [Each school year], the commissioner shall deposit in
43	37		the account for each district the amount of the district's
44	38		instructional materials allotment under Section 31.0211.
45	39		SECTION 3. Sections 31.0215(a) and (b), Education Code, are
46	40		amended to read as follows:
47	41		(a) The commissioner shall, as early as practicable during
48	42		each biennium [fiscal year], notify each school district and
49	43		open-enrollment charter school of the estimated amount to which the
50	44		district or charter school will be entitled under Section 31.0211
51	45		during the next fiscal biennium [year].
52	46		(b) The commissioner may allow a school district or
53	47		open-enrollment charter school to place an order for instructional
54	48		materials before the beginning of a fiscal biennium [year] and to
55	49		receive instructional materials before payment. The commissioner
56	50		shall limit the cost of an order placed under this section to 80
57	51		percent of the estimated amount to which a school district or
58	52		open-enrollment charter school is estimated to be entitled as
59	53		provided by Subsection (a) and shall first credit any balance in a
60	54		district or charter school instructional materials account to pay
61	55		for an order placed under this section.
62	56		SECTION 4. Section 43.001(d), Education Code, is amended to
63	57		read as follows:
64	58		(d) Each biennium [year] the State Board of Education shall
65	59		set aside an amount equal to 50 percent of the [annual] distribution
66	60		for that biennium [year] from the permanent school fund to the
67	61		available school fund as provided by Section 5(a), Article VII,
68	62		Texas Constitution, to be placed, subject to the General
69	63		Appropriations Act, in the state instructional materials fund
70	64		established under Section 31.021.
71	65		SECTION 5. Section 403.093(d), Government Code, is amended
72	66		to read as follows:
73	67		(d) The comptroller shall transfer from the general revenue
74	68		fund to the foundation school fund an amount of money necessary to
75	69		fund the foundation school program as provided by Chapter 42,
76	70		Education Code. The comptroller shall make the transfers in
77	71		installments as necessary to comply with Section 42.259, Education
78	72		Code, and permit the Texas Education Agency, to the extent
79	73		authorized by the General Appropriations Act, to make temporary
80	74		transfers from the foundation school fund for payment of the
81	75		instructional materials allotment under Section 31.0211, Education
82	76		Code. Unless an earlier date is necessary for purposes of temporary
83	77		transfers for payment of the instructional materials allotment, an
84	78		[An] installment must be made not earlier than two days before the
85	79		date an installment to school districts is required by Section
86	80		42.259, Education Code, and must not exceed the amount necessary
87	81		for that payment and any temporary transfers for payment of the
88	82		instructional materials allotment.
89	83		SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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	84	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	85	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	86	+	I certify that H.B. No. 1474 was passed by the House on May 5,
	87	+	2015, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 4, 2 present, not
	88	+	voting.
	89	+	______________________________
	90	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	91	+	I certify that H.B. No. 1474 was passed by the Senate on May
	92	+	24, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
	93	+	______________________________
	94	+	Secretary of the Senate
	95	+	APPROVED: _____________________
	96	+	Date
	97	+	_____________________
	98	+	Governor