Texas 2023 - 88th Regular

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1	1	88R2182 CXP-F
2	2	By: Howard H.B. No. 331
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the costs of expansion of open-enrollment charter
8	8	schools.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 48.266(f), Education Code, is amended to
11	11	read as follows:
12	12	(f) If the amount appropriated for the Foundation School
13	13	Program for the second year of a state fiscal biennium is less than
14	14	the amount to which school districts and open-enrollment charter
15	15	schools are entitled for that year, the commissioner shall certify
16	16	the amount of the difference to the Legislative Budget Board not
17	17	later than January 1 of the second year of the state fiscal
18	18	biennium. The Legislative Budget Board shall propose to the
19	19	legislature that the certified amount be transferred to the
20	20	foundation school fund from the economic stabilization fund and
21	21	appropriated for the purpose of increases in allocations under this
22	22	subsection. If the legislature fails during the regular session to
23	23	enact the proposed transfer and appropriation and there are not
24	24	funds available under Subsection (h), the commissioner may not
25	25	approve an expansion amendment for an open-enrollment charter
26	26	school or an application of a new charter holder for the biennium
27	27	before adjusting [shall adjust] the total amounts due to each
28	28	school district and open-enrollment charter school under this
29	29	chapter and the total amounts necessary for each school district to
30	30	comply with the requirements of Chapter 49 by an amount determined
31	31	by applying to each district and school the same percentage
32	32	adjustment to the total amount of state and local revenue due to the
33	33	district or school under this chapter and Chapter 49 so that the
34	34	total amount of the adjustment to all districts and schools results
35	35	in an amount equal to the total adjustment necessary. The following
36	36	fiscal year:
37	37	(1) a district's or school's entitlement under this
38	38	section is increased by an amount equal to the adjustment made
39	39	under this subsection; and
40	40	(2) the amount necessary for a district to comply with
41	41	the requirements of Chapter 49 is reduced by an amount necessary to
42	42	ensure a district's full recovery of the adjustment made under this
43	43	subsection.
44	44	SECTION 2. Section 48.269(a), Education Code, is amended to
45	45	read as follows:
46	46	(a) Not later than October 1 of each even-numbered year:
47	47	(1) the agency shall submit to the legislature:
48	48	(A) an estimate of the tax rate and student
49	49	enrollment of each school district for the following biennium; and
50	50	(B) for each open-enrollment charter school, the
51	51	school's student enrollment and the school's maximum enrollment
52	52	capacity; and
53	53	(2) the comptroller shall submit to the legislature an
54	54	estimate of the total taxable value of all property in the state as
55	55	determined under Subchapter M, Chapter 403, Government Code, for
56	56	the following biennium.
57	57	SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
58	58	school year.
59	59	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
60	60	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
61	61	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
62	62	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
63	63	Act takes effect September 1, 2023.