By: Huberty H.B. No. 4611
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain distributions to the available school fund.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 43.001(b), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) The available school fund, which shall be apportioned
annually to each county according to its scholastic population,
consists of:
(1) the distributions to the fund from the permanent
school fund as provided by Sections [Section] 5(a) and 5(g),
Article VII, Texas Constitution;
(2) one-fourth of all revenue derived from all state
occupation taxes, exclusive of delinquencies and cost of
collection;
(3) one-fourth of revenue derived from state gasoline
and special fuels excise taxes as provided by law; and
(4) all other appropriations to the available school
fund made by the legislature for public school purposes.
SECTION 2. Section 43.001(d), Education Code, as added by
Section 22, Chapter 705, Acts of the 85th Legislature, 2017, is
amended to read as follows:
(d) Each biennium the State Board of Education shall set
aside an amount equal to 50 percent of the distribution for that
biennium from the permanent school fund to the available school
fund as provided by Sections [Section] 5(a) and 5(g), Article VII,
Texas Constitution, to be placed, subject to the General
Appropriations Act, in the state technology and instructional
materials fund established under Section 31.021.
SECTION 3. Section 43.001(d), Education Code, as added by
Section 34, Chapter 581, Acts of the 85th Legislature, 2017, is
repealed.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect January 1, 2020, but only
if the constitutional amendment proposed by the 86th legislature,
Regular Session, 2019, providing for increased distributions to the
available school fund is approved by the voters.
If that proposed
constitutional amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act
has no effect.