85R23340 SMH-F
 
  By: VanDeaver, Howard H.B. No. 486
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 486:
 
  By:  Stephenson C.S.H.B. No. 486
 
 
 
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, Tax Code, is amended by adding
  Subsections (q), (r), and (s) to read as follows:
         (q)  This subsection applies only to a school district
  described by Subsection (n) whose adopted tax rate was approved at
  an election under this section in the 2006 tax year or any
  subsequent tax year. Notwithstanding Subsection (n), for purposes
  of this section, the rollback tax rate of the school district is the
  higher of:
               (1)  the amount computed under Subsection (n); or
               (2)  the sum of the following:
                     (A)  the highest maintenance and operations tax
  rate adopted by the district for the 2007 tax year or any subsequent
  tax year in which the adopted tax rate of the district was approved
  at an election under this section; and
                     (B)  the district's current debt rate.
         (r)  Subsection (q) applies to a school district only if the
  district has adopted a tax rate equal to or higher than the rate
  provided by that subsection for any tax year in the preceding 10 tax
  years.
         (s)  Subsection (q) does not apply to a school district if:
               (1)  in the 2007 tax year or a subsequent tax year
  before the 2016 tax year the district's adopted tax rate was
  approved at an election under this section and the maintenance and
  operations tax rate adopted by the district for that tax year was
  higher than the sum of the rates described by Subsections
  (n)(2)(A)(i) and (ii);
               (2)  in the 2016 tax year the district adopted a
  maintenance and operations tax rate that was:
                     (A)  lower than the highest maintenance and
  operations tax rate adopted by the district for a tax year in which
  the district's adopted tax rate was approved at an election in a tax
  year described by Subdivision (1); and
                     (B)  higher than the sum of the rates described by
  Subsections (n)(2)(A)(i) and (ii); and
               (3)  the district's adopted tax rate has not been
  approved at an election under this section since the 2016 tax year.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to the
  ad valorem tax rate of a school district beginning with the 2018 tax
  year.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2018.