By: Zwiener H.B. No. 95
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring the legislature to set the basic allotment
and guaranteed yield under the public school finance system at
certain amounts in the General Appropriations Act.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 48, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 48.2511 to read as follows:
Sec. 48.2511. APPROPRIATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION. (a) In
each biennial General Appropriations Act, the legislature shall set
the basic allotment under Section 48.051 and the dollar amount
guaranteed level of state and local funds per weighted student per
cent of tax effort ("GL") under Section 48.202 for each state fiscal
year at:
(1) the amounts necessary for the amount of state
funds to which all school districts are jointly entitled under this
chapter, together with state funds to which all school districts
are jointly entitled for that state fiscal year under any other law
that provides funding for the general maintenance and operation of
the system of public free schools, to constitute, as determined by
the legislature, at least 50 percent of the cost of maintaining and
operating that system; or
(2) amounts greater than the amounts specified by
Subdivision (1).
(b) For purposes of calculating the amount of state funds
required under Subsection (a), the legislature may not consider
money that is attributable to an ad valorem tax imposed by a school
district on property located in the school district, including any
revenue the school district is required to transfer to the state to
reduce the school district's local revenue level in accordance with
Chapter 49.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect December 1, 2023.