Bill Text: TX HB4611 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to certain distributions to the available school fund.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-05 - See remarks for effective date [HB4611 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4611-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to certain distributions to the available school fund.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-05 - See remarks for effective date [HB4611 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4611-Comm_Sub.html
By: Huberty (Senate Sponsor - Taylor) | H.B. No. 4611 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2019; | ||
May 1, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance; | ||
May 13, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 14, | ||
Nays 0; May 13, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to certain distributions to the available school fund. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 43.001(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) The available school fund, which shall be apportioned | ||
annually to each county according to its scholastic population, | ||
consists of: | ||
(1) the distributions to the fund from the permanent | ||
school fund as provided by Sections [ |
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VII, Texas Constitution; | ||
(2) one-fourth of all revenue derived from all state | ||
occupation taxes, exclusive of delinquencies and cost of | ||
collection; | ||
(3) one-fourth of revenue derived from state gasoline | ||
and special fuels excise taxes as provided by law; and | ||
(4) all other appropriations to the available school | ||
fund made by the legislature for public school purposes. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 43.001(d), Education Code, as amended by | ||
Chapters 581 (S.B. 810) and 705 (H.B. 3526), Acts of the 85th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, is reenacted and amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) Each biennium the State Board of Education shall set | ||
aside an amount equal to 50 percent of the distribution for that | ||
biennium from the permanent school fund to the available school | ||
fund as provided by Sections [ |
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Texas Constitution, to be placed, subject to the General | ||
Appropriations Act, in the state instructional materials and | ||
technology fund established under Section 31.021. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2020, but only | ||
if the constitutional amendment proposed by the 86th Legislature, | ||
Regular Session, 2019, providing for increased distributions to the | ||
available school fund is approved by the voters. If that proposed | ||
constitutional amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act | ||
has no effect. | ||
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