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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to a temporary exemption for school districts from the |
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obligation to comply with certain unfunded state educational |
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mandates. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 11, Education Code, is |
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amended by adding Section 11.004 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 11.004. TEMPORARY EXEMPTION FROM CERTAIN UNFUNDED |
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STATE EDUCATIONAL MANDATES. (a) In this section, "state |
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educational mandate" means a statutory provision the |
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implementation of which requires an expenditure by a school |
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district that would not have been required in the absence of the |
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statutory provision or a rule adopted under that provision. |
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(b) A school district is exempt from a state educational |
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mandate for which the legislature, for the state fiscal biennium, |
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has not appropriated money estimated to be sufficient to meet the |
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expenditure required by the mandate for that biennium unless the |
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mandate is necessary either to comply with federal law or to meet |
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eligibility standards for a federal entitlement that is sufficient |
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to meet the full expenditure required by the mandate, and the |
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federal law specifically contemplates action by a district for |
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compliance or eligibility. |
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(c) This section expires September 1, 2013. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |