Texas 2017 - 85th 1st C.S.

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1	1	85S10257 CAE-D
2	2	By: Perry S.B. No. 81
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to additional state aid for certain school districts.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 42, Education Code, is
10	10	amended by adding Section 42.25162 to read as follows:
11	11	Sec. 42.25162. ADDITIONAL STATE AID FOR CERTAIN DISTRICTS.
12	12	(a) This section applies only to a school district determined by
13	13	the commissioner to be the predominant provider of public education
14	14	in a county of this state based on the following factors:
15	15	(1) the extent to which the district is the public
16	16	education provider for substantially all of the students residing
17	17	in the county who attend school in a school district, other than a
18	18	minimal number of students in the county who reside in the
19	19	attendance zone of another school district;
20	20	(2) the degree of hardship that the district's
21	21	students would experience if the district were to discontinue
22	22	providing public education and the district's students were
23	23	required to attend school in another school district; and
24	24	(3) any other relevant factor identified by the
25	25	commissioner.
26	26	(b) A school district is entitled to the additional state
27	27	aid that would have been provided to the district for the current
28	28	school year under Section 42.2516, as that section existed on
29	29	January 1, 2017, if:
30	30	(1) the district demonstrates, to the satisfaction of
31	31	the commissioner, that the failure to receive that state aid would
32	32	require the district to close at least one campus; and
33	33	(2) the district received additional state aid under
34	34	Section 42.2516, for:
35	35	(A) the 2015-2016 school year; or
36	36	(B) the 2016-2017 school year.
37	37	(c) In implementing this section, the commissioner shall
38	38	make determinations regarding additional state aid under Section
39	39	42.2516, as that section existed January 1, 2017, using the
40	40	percentage reduction for purposes of former Section 42.2516(i)
41	41	specified by appropriation for the 2016-2017 school year.
42	42	(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including
43	43	Section 42.2528, if the commissioner determines that the amount
44	44	appropriated for the purposes of the Foundation School Program
45	45	exceeds the amount to which school districts are entitled under
46	46	this chapter, the commissioner by rule shall use the excess funds to
47	47	provide funding to school districts entitled to funds under this
48	48	section.
49	49	(e) The commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to
50	50	implement this section.
51	51	SECTION 2. Section 42.2528(a), Education Code, is amended
52	52	to read as follows:
53	53	(a) Except as provided by Section 42.25162, notwithstanding
54	54	[Notwithstanding] any other provision of law, if the commissioner
55	55	determines that the amount appropriated for the purposes of the
56	56	Foundation School Program exceeds the amount to which school
57	57	districts are entitled under this chapter, the commissioner by rule
58	58	shall establish a grant program through which excess funds are
59	59	awarded as grants for the purchase of video equipment, or for the
60	60	reimbursement of costs for previously purchased video equipment,
61	61	used for monitoring special education classrooms or other special
62	62	education settings required under Section 29.022.
63	63	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
64	64	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
65	65	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
66	66	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
67	67	Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the
68	68	legislative session.