By: King of Hemphill (Senate Sponsor - Taylor) H.B. No. 663
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 16, 2019;
April 17, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 17, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 1;
May 17, 2019, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 663 By: Taylor
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to proclamations for the production of instructional
materials and selection of instructional materials by public
schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 31.002, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subdivision (1-b) to read as follows:
(1-b) "Proclamation" means a request for production of
instructional materials issued by the State Board of Education.
SECTION 2. Section 31.022, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (b-1) and (b-2) and amending Subsection (f) to
read as follows:
(b-1) For any state fiscal biennium, the board may only
issue proclamations for instructional materials in which the total
projected cost of instructional materials under the proclamations
does not exceed 75 percent of the total amount used to fund the
instructional materials and technology allotment under Section
31.0211 for that biennium.
(b-2) In determining the disbursement of money to the
available school fund and the amount of that disbursement that will
be used, in accordance with Section 43.001(d), to fund the
instructional materials and technology allotment under Section
31.0211, the board must consider the cost of all instructional
materials and technology requirements for that state fiscal
biennium.
(f) The board shall amend any proclamation [request for
production] issued for the purchase of instructional materials to
conform to the instructional materials funding levels provided by
the General Appropriations Act for the year of implementation and
to comply with Subsection (b-1).
SECTION 3. Sections 31.101(d) and (e), Education Code, are
repealed.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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