By: Arévalo, Allen, Dutton H.B. No. 1081
        (Senate Sponsor - Watson)
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2017;
  May 9, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Education; May 22, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 1;
  May 22, 2017, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1081 By:  Lucio
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the new instructional facility allotment under the
  foundation school program.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 42.158(b), (d-1), and (g), Education
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (b)  For the first school year in which students attend a new
  instructional facility, a school district is entitled to an
  allotment of $1,000 [$250] for each student in average daily
  attendance at the facility. For the second school year in which
  students attend that instructional facility, a school district is
  entitled to an allotment of $1,000 [$250] for each additional
  student in average daily attendance at the facility.
         (d-1)  In addition to the appropriation amount described by
  Subsection (d), the amount of $1 million may be appropriated each
  school year to supplement the allotment to which a school district
  is entitled under this section that may be provided using the
  appropriation amount described by Subsection (d). The commissioner
  shall first apply the funds appropriated under this subsection to
  prevent any reduction under Subsection (d) in the allotment for
  attendance at an eligible high school instructional facility,
  subject to the maximum amount of $1,000 [$250] for each student in
  average daily attendance. Any funds remaining after preventing all
  reductions in amounts due for high school instructional facilities
  may be applied proportionally to all other eligible instructional
  facilities, subject to the maximum amount of $1,000 [$250] for each
  student in average daily attendance.
         (g)  In this section:
               (1)  "Instructional [, "instructional] facility" has
  the meaning assigned by Section 46.001.
               (2)  "New instructional facility" includes:
                     (A)  a newly constructed instructional facility;
                     (B)  a repurposed instructional facility; and
                     (C)  a leased facility operating for the first
  time as an instructional facility with a minimum lease term of not
  less than 10 years.
         SECTION 2.  A school district that is entitled under Section
  42.158, Education Code, to receive funding in the 2017-2018 school
  year for the second year of student attendance at a new
  instructional facility is entitled for that year to the amount
  provided for the second year of student attendance as a result of
  the changes in law made by this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
 
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