Bill Text: TX SB2503 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the calculation of the rollback tax rate of a school district.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (N/A - Dead) 2019-04-16 - Left pending in committee [SB2503 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB2503-Introduced.html

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86R23101 CJC-F
By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 2503

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the calculation of the rollback tax rate of a school
district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 26.08(n), Tax Code, is amended to read as
follows:
(n) For purposes of this section, the rollback tax rate of a
school district is [whose maintenance and operations tax rate for
the 2005 tax year was $1.50 or less per $100 of taxable value is:
[(1) for the 2006 tax year, the sum of the rate that is
equal to 88.67 percent of the maintenance and operations tax rate
adopted by the district for the 2005 tax year, the rate of $0.04 per
$100 of taxable value, and the district's current debt rate; and
[(2) for the 2007 and subsequent tax years,] the
lesser of the following:
(1) [(A)] the sum of the following:
(A) [(i)] the rate per $100 of taxable value that
is equal to the product of the state compression percentage, as
determined under Section 42.2516, Education Code, for the current
year and $1.50;
(B) [(ii)] the rate of $0.04 per $100 of taxable
value;
(C) [(iii)] the rate that is equal to the sum of
the differences for the 2006 and each subsequent tax year between
the adopted tax rate of the district for that year if the rate was
approved at an election under this section and the rollback tax rate
of the district for that year; and
(D) [(iv)] the district's current debt rate; or
(2) [(B)] the sum of the following:
(A) [(i) the effective maintenance and
operations tax rate of the district as computed under Subsection
(i) or (k), as applicable;
[(ii)] the rate per $100 of taxable value
that is equal to the product of the effective maintenance and
operations tax rate of the district [state compression percentage],
as computed under Subsection (i), and 1.025 [determined under
Section 42.2516, Education Code, for the current year and $0.06];
and
(B) [(iii)] the district's current debt rate.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to the
calculation of the rollback tax rate of a school district beginning
with the 2020 tax year.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2020.