By: Guillen H.B. No. 131
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an allotment under the public school finance system for
certain students enrolled in excess of class size limitations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 48, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 48.116 to read as follows:
Sec. 48.116. CLASS SIZE ALLOTMENT. (a) A school district
is entitled to an annual allotment equal to the basic allotment
multiplied by 0.48 for each student in the district enrolled in a
class in excess of the maximum number of students permitted to be
enrolled in that class under Section 25.112(a) if the district has
been granted an exception under Section 25.112(d) from class size
limits for the two preceding school years.
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the total amount that
may be used to provide allotments under that subsection for a school
year may not exceed $320 million. If the total amount of allotments
to which school districts are entitled under Subsection (a) for a
school year exceeds the amount permitted under this subsection, the
commissioner shall proportionately reduce the amount of each
district's allotment until the total amount for the allotments is
equal to the amount permitted under this subsection.
SECTION 2. Section 12.106, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (d-1) to read as follows:
(d-1) Subject to Subsection (e), in addition to other
amounts provided by this section, in a geographic area within 5
miles of a district, including the geographic area of the district,
that has been granted an exception under Section 25.112(d) from
class size limits for the two preceding school years, a charter
holder is entitled to receive, for the open-enrollment charter
school, funding per student in average daily attendance in an
amount equal to the guaranteed level of state and local funds per
student per cent of tax effort under Section 46.032(a) multiplied
by the lesser of:
(1) the state average interest and sinking fund tax
rate imposed by school districts for the current year; or
(2) a rate that would result in a total amount to which
charter schools are entitled under this subsection for the current
year equal to $60 million.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2024.