**OFFICE OF**  **THE ATTORNEY**  **GENERAL OF**  **TEXAS AUSTIN**  **GROVER**

**SELLERS ArrIORNrv** 

**GENERAL**

**HorIar8bl e**  **n. C.**  **Morris, Chrirman**  

### Joint tegisl8tlrr Committee Creenrille, Texas

Dear Sanator Mor~inr

***As Chairman**  **of the**  

### Ima interested in **recur pretstion**  **at abrtaln**  **wov tlan**  **law tar** 

**1, the**  **atrlainl m**  **c this**  **law are**  

### IIIadminfmtraon that the tunda**e aid**  **under thin**  **I aw**  **R sCtl001**  **to show** **a nebd**  **rent type0**  **crf aid**  **pm II** **of this**  **law. The**  **opinion tod**  **to transportation**  

### aid **ion at&tan**  **that the**  

### banfs
an old Is ‘n6ed’v it la **necem term**  

### be dafhed in 

### order that **the ad**  **ftfcor** 

### nt mm **aomlttee may** 

### dstcrmine **J of**  **thone sahoots**  **8pplyinu for**  **trano** 

### porhtlan aid- In **our opinion**  **the ?a** * **prorf** 

### dew **that any**  **nchoal applying**  **for any**  **type of**  **nid must**  **ahn*** **by ita**  **budget noed**  **for** mch 

### aid and **that** 

### said **app?rinI: school**  **aust** 

### abide **By** the **provisions In**  **this act**  which **met up**  **a alninnn**  **tax rata**  and **mlarf** 

### achecWIe~l1. **What** 

### is Rudaetrry Reed?

‘2. mould a a ahaol 

### rho makes **rpplian** 

### tion **tar** 

### tran6pnrtation aid **only be**  

### required tn nhoshudgstary **need?.**

**In our**  **Opinion** **X*0.**

### O-7211, referred toby you, we pnlnted out **that Article**  **V**

## tat**83. II.**  **Ao. 107,**  **deal 8**  with **the speoitlo**  **subjoot of**  **tranrportrtiaa** l

### ld,md 

### dimurned **quite full**  **y the**  **rel** 

### otira ioportanos of a **special provision**  

### aontafnad **In** 

### a goneral sot, and held there **wan no**  

### oimt?lOt botuoen KaOti@n 1of **Article** 

### I of **the** 

### SilY and Article **I, tlealin~**  **with the**  

### spaolltioFart of tbwvain **bill, to-wit,**  **frannpertstion mid.**  **Further, wo**  **pointed out**  **t,hat Artiale**  **V** 

### ttld**have the**  **effect, hV**  **renaan of**  **its speclfla**  **ne*n** **to oberate**  **8e a**  **mrorlsa** 

### nr**excepticn tram**  **seatlop 1,**  **of cer**  **tnln ellpfbilftf**  

### roqulramewts Cnr njd- **In that**  

### opfnfon **~8** 

### quoted from **Artiole V**  **the lallnrlng?** 



### wProrfdad **further that.**  **all** nchaal 

### distrfcts containinlt 

### on0 hundred (1M)) nquarem‘llenof tor**ritory or**  **more. or**  **whiob hare**  **lemn than**  **ono enua**  **orated seholamtio**  **Per** 

### square**wile may**  **r60sire thraa**  **dnllara** 

### mnd **twenty-tire oemts**  **($3.35) ner**  **month per**  **pupil :**  

### provided **further, thot**  **all .coun**  **tl.oa harInK**  

### laan **thnn three**  **(0) enwwatnd**  **scho- ?amt¶oa**  **per sqnrro**  **nil0 In**  the **entire aountf**  **nhaY1** rasdre **three dollars**  **and fifty**  **oenta (@.RO)**  **per month**  **per ppil**  **as transportstim,**  **aid when**  **there** lr, **a need**  **shown t,heretor**  81) **prorided herefn.** **”**



### Artlele **V, atthou&**  

### A nrarlsa nr oxcaptIon lansening **the eligzihility**  

### requlrfmenta **oontainetl in**  Faatlon 

### 1,Arti6le 1 of **the** 

### Aat, dld not purport toerom?t **the ossontinl**  **reyuire** 

### mtmt at "aneed **shown*,** 

### eren though **other** 

### ellplbility requiroRantr **were renderod**  

### innpuratira an ta transportation aid. Pram **roadinn tho**  **entjre Rill,**  **wo think**  **tFera is**  **an overall**  **intention** 

### thst nn BI& **nt any**  **kind** 

### ahorild ha a:lnred except in aaso of **need therefor**  **by the**  **distrlat.**



### \loraor6r,In the oonoludin+yraramaph nt Opinion 

### Yo. c-1241, in 

### munoratetn~ certain ellrjhl3ltr requ?rtrm@ntnfor trnnn~ortatlnn aid, **wo ssnresnlV**  jnoludod ***a neod**  **therofnr.w** 

### (Qwhasfm suplrlled) - --- -,--.--.**IO** 

### thisaLe**in 8eUard**  **With Tour**  

### interprstatton **OS the**  lltna6~on**in your**  **letbsr**
**, that**  **thla** 

### need **a? trantqmrtation**  **aid** 

### nay be detem3nad and shouldho **determined** 

### au a aondftlon preeedent to the extenelon of **such**

## aid.

Ror aat uo hare sold it 

### i01104a 44 **man** 

### to 11~ns4r your qnsrtions ~tegorisa‘tl~, AS follor#r

1. fbming to your 4pseiii4 request 

### far deflnitioa ai *budgetary heed’) we rind the term defined 

### in fwatlm I)o? Arti410 **I of**  **the** statute tmdsr **eannideratioa** an **fallorat**



### wTba

## tens ‘bntlpetaryneed' aw nsod in thisA4tr is dofined as the dittarmee betwean the total of all rov4uue4 

## afthedl4trlot **and** 

### the total of 

### all **aperatln~ 4xpanoes**  **ii euoh**  **brp4na44** 

### or4 C;roater than th* re~4nnem~ **The renmuos**  **nf the**  

### dlntrlst **shall** 

### inaludet **(1)** stat0 **and eopnty**  

### at*llabler **toaol** 

### maintenancer l 

### nU state old **balancea** 

### brought tonard frola**the preeedfng**  **year! (a)**  **state** 

### Rnd aounty **arailable** 

### end losal

## aaintenm4o r444ipta derived from a loaal **?mintmmiae kx**  **of Piltr**  Cemtn 

### (50#) OR the 0114lhm~red Oollara 

### ($lOOdJO) valaatJon tar **tho ourrent**  

### Parr 

### end (3) taltion **to be**  **a01 1** 

### ssted I08811 y

. 

### The **operating 4xpennse**  **0T** 

### the dlatriat oball lnoludo~ (1) ealorlea of tarab

### oreand mimlnletratars according to tbs rehedule of **allommsas tor**  **oarno am**  

### provided **in** 

### Artiole JfT of **t&i8** 

### 4411 

### (2)opsratiag exponseo aaaar&Sng ta the sahodnle of allowmoor for #me **a4 prurl&xl**  **in** 

### Artlole II of'thin **dot.***



### In **Order t0**  

### 8bOw ubudgotary meed* inmatt4Pm Of tr8n,6- portatlnn, thereFore, a district wst rho* a dstleft 

### betweenrove nuee of the di&riot, **as BoPined**  **by section**  **5, eupra,**  

### nnd o.pe*ating expanses, tikeriaa as **UePfned** 

### by Bs4tinn 4,but InaludinC:as **expensas** 

### of operation appraved traasportatfon 4Ostr not fn **exae88**


### or **tho** 

### amunts nlIov~ble under Artlola V. Indeed, it 1s ~poc+ticalTy prorlded lnArt%o?s V that, ‘Tba **expenses** 

### oP such trmnportatiw **doll bo**  **paid** 

### on the ba8im ofbud$etnry need aa tndlaated by npgrerad Btate aidsappliaat4on. * 0 *”

3. Any aehnolmaking 

## applicatlm**f-r** 

### transrortatim, aid **only** 

### should be raqu.1



## red to &ow thnt **there** 

### ex3stod nueh budgetary 

### need.