TITLE: Relating to additional state aid for certain common school districts.

SUMMARY: Relating to additional state aid for certain common school districts.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to additional state aid for certain common school districts. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 42, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 42.25162 to read as follows: Sec. 42.25162. ADDITIONAL STATE AID FOR CERTAIN COMMON SCHOOL DISTRICTS. (a) This section applies only to a common school district that received for the 2016-2017 or a preceding school year additional state aid under Section 42.2516. (b) A common school district to which this section applies is entitled to the additional state aid that would have been provided to the district for the current school year under Section 42.2516, as that section existed on January 1, 2017, if the district demonstrates, to the satisfaction of the commissioner, that the failure to receive that state aid would require the district to close at least one campus. (c) The commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to implement this section. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017, if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.