Bill Text: TX HB131 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an allotment under the public school finance system for certain students enrolled in excess of class size limitations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-10-11 - Filed [HB131 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB131-Introduced.html
| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 131 | |
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| 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. | ||
