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By: Darby H.B. No. 78
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to school district tax rates, property values, and tax
collections used by the commissioner of education in allocating
Foundation School Program funding.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The second paragraph of Rider 3, page III-5, S.B.
1, Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017 (the General
Appropriations Act), to the bill pattern of the appropriations to
the Texas Education Agency is amended to read as follows:
Formula Funding: The Commissioner shall make allocations to
local school districts under Chapters 41, 42 and 46 based on the
March 2017 estimates of average daily attendance and local district
tax rates as determined by the Legislative Budget Board and the
final tax year 2016 property values. [Property values, and the
estimates of local tax collections on which they are based, shall be
increased by 7.04 percent for tax year 2017 and by 6.77 percent for
tax year 2018.]
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 on the 91st day after the last day of the
legislative session.