86R13894 JES-F
By: Shine H.B. No. 4490
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to equalized education funding and mandate impact
statements for bills and resolutions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Section 314.004, Government Code,
is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 314.004. EQUALIZED EDUCATION FUNDING AND MANDATE
IMPACT STATEMENT.
SECTION 2. Section 314.004, Government Code, is amended by
amending Subsections (a) and (b) and adding Subsection (d) to read
as follows:
(a) The board shall prepare for each bill or resolution that
affects public education an equalized education funding and mandate
impact statement.
(b) The impact statement must evaluate the effect of the
bill or resolution on:
(1) all state equalized funding requirements and
policies, including any reduction in the amount of state aid a
school district would receive under the bill or resolution; and
(2) if the bill or resolution proposes a mandate, the
amount of additional:
(A) revenue the bill or resolution would require
a school district to expend to comply with the mandate; and
(B) time the bill or resolution would require a
school district employee or student to expend to comply with the
mandate.
(d) In this section, "mandate" means a statutory
requirement proposed in a bill or resolution that requires a school
district or an employee or student of a school district to
establish, expand, or modify an activity in a way that requires the
expenditure of revenue or time by the school district, employee, or
student that would not have been required in the absence of the
statutory requirement proposed in the bill or resolution.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.