By: VanDeaver H.B. No. 1054
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to proportionality between state accountability
performance indicators that apply to school districts and the
State's share of the foundation school program for school
districts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 39.054, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) For purposes of evaluating school districts and campus
performance under this section, the commissioner may not use
state-required performance indicators in Section 39.053 in a
proportion that exceeds the percentage of the State share of the
Foundation School Program estimated in Section 42.001(c) in each
fiscal year, and a school district may substitute locally selected
or developed performance indicators.
SECTION 2. Section 42.001, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) The General Appropriations Act shall include a
Legislative Budget Board projection for each fiscal year of the
percentage of State revenue sources that is estimated to constitute
the State's share of the Foundation School Program for school
districts statewide and of the percentage of local tax revenues
that is estimated to constitute the local share of the Foundation
School Program for school districts statewide, excluding federal
funds. In this section, the term "local tax revenues" includes
revenue that a school district is required to transfer to the State
to reduce the school district's wealth per student to the equalized
wealth level, and the term "state revenue sources" does not include
such revenue.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.