85R5882 CAE-D
By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 419
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the extension of additional state aid for tax reduction
provided to certain school districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 42.2516(c-1), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c-1) Revenue generated by the portion of a district's
maintenance and operations tax rate included in calculating the
district's compressed tax rate under Section 42.101(a-1) and local
share under Section 42.252(a-1) is included in determining the
amount to which a district is entitled under this section, but may
not increase the total amount of revenue per weighted student to
which the district is entitled under this section. This subsection
expires September 1, 2023 [2017].
SECTION 2. Section 42.2518(a), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) For the 2015-2016 through 2022-2023 [and 2016-2017]
school years, a school district is entitled to additional state aid
to the extent that state and local revenue under this chapter and
Chapter 41 is less than the state and local revenue that would have
been available to the district under Chapter 41 and this chapter as
those chapters existed on September 1, 2015, if the increase in the
residence homestead exemption under Section 1-b(c), Article VIII,
Texas Constitution, and the additional limitation on tax increases
under Section 1-b(d) of that article as proposed by S.J.R. 1, 84th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, had not occurred.
SECTION 3. Effective September 1, 2023, Section 42.2518(a),
Education Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year [For the
2015-2016 and 2016-2017 school years], a school district is
entitled to additional state aid to the extent that state and local
revenue under this chapter and Chapter 41 is less than the state and
local revenue that would have been available to the district under
Chapter 41 and this chapter as those chapters existed on September
1, 2015, excluding any state aid that would have been provided under
former Section 42.2516, if the increase in the residence homestead
exemption under Section 1-b(c), Article VIII, Texas Constitution,
and the additional limitation on tax increases under Section 1-b(d)
of that article as proposed by S.J.R. 1, 84th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2015, had not occurred.
SECTION 4. Notwithstanding Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, the following
provisions are effective September 1, 2023:
(1) Section 57.03, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the 82nd
Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which amended Section
12.106(a), Education Code;
(2) Section 57.18, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the 82nd
Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which amended the heading to
Section 42.2516, Education Code;
(3) Section 57.19, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the 82nd
Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which amended Section
42.2516(a), Education Code;
(4) Section 57.23, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the 82nd
Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which amended Section
42.253(h), Education Code;
(5) Section 57.29, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the 82nd
Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which amended Section
26.08(i), Tax Code;
(6) Section 57.32(a), Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which repealed various
provisions of the Education Code; and
(7) Section 57.32(b), Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2011, which repealed Sections
26.08(i-1) and (j), Tax Code.
SECTION 5. Section 42.2518(e), Education Code, is repealed.
SECTION 6. Section 18, Chapter 465 (S.B. 1), Acts of the
84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, which added Section
42.2518, Education Code, effective September 1, 2017, is repealed.
SECTION 7. Except as otherwise provided by this Act:
(1) 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; and
(2) 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.