85S10885 KJE-D
By: Bernal H.B. No. 256
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the Legislative Budget Board's report on equalized
funding elements under the public school finance system.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 42.007(a) and (b), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) The Legislative Budget Board shall adopt rules, subject
to appropriate notice and opportunity for public comment, for the
calculation for each year of a biennium of the qualified funding
elements, in accordance with Subsection (c), necessary to:
(1) achieve the state policy under Section 42.001; and
(2) enable each student to achieve satisfactory
performance on each assessment instrument required under Section
39.023.
(b) Before each regular session of the legislature, the
board shall submit [, as determined by the board, report the
equalized funding elements] to the commissioner and the legislature
a report on the board's recommendations regarding the equalized
funding elements necessary to achieve the goals described by
Subsection (a) for each year of the next state fiscal biennium.
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date
of this Act, the Legislative Budget Board shall adopt the rules
required under Section 42.007(a), Education Code, as amended by
this Act.
SECTION 3. 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.