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TX Educ Code § 49.155 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter D. Purchase of Attendance Credit|Section 49.155. Duration

Sec. 49.155.  DURATION.  An agreement under this section is valid for one school year and, subject to Section 49.156, may be renewed annually.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Section 41.095 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.053, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.156 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter D. Purchase of Attendance Credit|Section 49.156. Voter Approval

Sec. 49.156.  VOTER APPROVAL.  (a)  After first executing an agreement under this section, the board of trustees shall order and conduct an election, in the manner provided by Sections 13.003(d)-(g), to obtain voter approval of the agreement.(b)  The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition:  "Authorizing the board of trustees of ________ School District to purchase attendance credit from the state with local tax revenues."(c)  The proposition is approved if the proposition receives a favorable vote of a majority of the votes cast.  If the proposition is approved, the agreement executed by the board is ratified, and the board has continuing authority to execute agreements under this subchapter on behalf of the district without further voter approval.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Section 41.096 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.053, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.157 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter D. Purchase of Attendance Credit|Section 49.157. Credit for Appraisal Costs

Sec. 49.157.  CREDIT FOR APPRAISAL COSTS.   The total amount required under Section 49.153 for a district to purchase attendance credit under this subchapter for any school year is reduced by an amount equal to the product of the district's total costs under Section 6.06, Tax Code, for the appraisal district or districts in which it participates multiplied by a percentage that is computed by dividing the total amount required under Section 49.153 by the total amount of taxes imposed in the district for that year less any amounts paid into a tax increment fund under Chapter 311, Tax Code.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.  Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1071, Sec. 10, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.Amended by: Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 648 (H.B. 1010), Sec. 3, eff. January 1, 2008.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Section 41.097 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.053, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.158 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter D. Purchase of Attendance Credit|Section 49.158. Limitation

Sec. 49.158.  LIMITATION.  (a)  Sections 49.154 and 49.157 apply only to a district that:(1)  executes an agreement to purchase attendance credit necessary to reduce the district's local revenue level to the level established under Section 48.257;(2)  executes an agreement to purchase attendance credit and an agreement under Subchapter E to contract for the education of nonresident students who transfer to and are educated in the district but who are not charged tuition; or(3)  executes an agreement under Subchapter E to contract for the education of nonresident students:(A)  to an extent that does not provide more than 10 percent of the reduction in local revenue required for the district to achieve a local revenue level that is equal to or less than the level established under Section 48.257; and(B)  under which all revenue paid by the district to other districts, in excess of the reduction in state aid that results from counting the weighted average daily attendance of the students served in the contracting district, is required to be used for funding a consortium of at least three districts in a county with a population of less than 40,000 that is formed to support a technology initiative.(b)  A district that executes an agreement under Subsection (a)(3) must pay full market value for any good or service the district obtains through the consortium.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.  Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1071, Sec. 11, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Section 41.099 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.053, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.201 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter E. Education of Nonresident Students|Section 49.201. Agreement

Sec. 49.201.  AGREEMENT.   The board of trustees of a district with a local revenue level in excess of entitlement may execute an agreement to educate the students of another district in a number that, when the weighted average daily attendance of the students served is added to the weighted average daily attendance of the contracting district, is sufficient, in combination with any other actions taken under this chapter, to reduce the district's local revenue level to a level that is equal to or less than the level established under Section 48.257.  The agreement is not effective unless the commissioner certifies that the transfer of weighted average daily attendance will not result in any of the contracting districts' local revenue level being greater than the level established under Section 48.257 and that the agreement requires an expenditure per student in weighted average daily attendance that is at least equal to the amount per student in weighted average daily attendance required under Section 49.153.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.Amended by: Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1328 (H.B. 3646), Sec. 46, eff. September 1, 2009.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Section 41.121 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.055, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.202 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter E. Education of Nonresident Students|Section 49.202. Voter Approval

Sec. 49.202.  VOTER APPROVAL.  (a)  After first executing an agreement under this subchapter other than an agreement under Section 49.205, the board of trustees of the district that will be educating nonresident students shall order and conduct an election, in the manner provided by Sections 13.003(d)-(g), to obtain voter approval of the agreement.(b)  The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition:  "Authorizing the board of trustees of ________ School District to educate students of other school districts with local tax revenues."(c)  The proposition is approved if the proposition receives a favorable vote of a majority of the votes cast.  If the proposition is approved, the agreement executed by the board is ratified, and the board has continuing authority to execute agreements under this subchapter on behalf of the district without further voter approval.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.  Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 61, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Section 41.122 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.055, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.203 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter E. Education of Nonresident Students|Section 49.203. Wada Count

Sec. 49.203.  WADA COUNT.  For purposes of Chapter 48, students served under an agreement under this subchapter are counted only in the weighted average daily attendance of the district providing the services, except that students served under an agreement authorized by Section 49.205 are counted in a manner determined by the commissioner.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.  Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 61, Sec. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Section 41.123 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.055, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.204 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter E. Education of Nonresident Students|Section 49.204. Transfers

Sec. 49.204.  TRANSFERS.  (a)  The board of trustees of a school district with a local revenue level in excess of entitlement may reduce the district's local revenue level by serving nonresident students who transfer to the district and are educated by the district but who are not charged tuition.  A district that exercises the option under this subsection is not required to execute an agreement with the school district in which a transferring student resides and must certify to the commissioner that the district has not charged or received tuition for the transferring students.(b)   A school district that receives tuition for a student from a school district with a local revenue level in excess of entitlement may not claim attendance for that student for purposes of Chapters 46 and 48 and the instructional materials and technology allotment under Section 31.0211.|Reenacted, transferred, redesignated and amended by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.056, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.205 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter E. Education of Nonresident Students|Section 49.205. Career and Technology Education Programs

Sec. 49.205.  CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION PROGRAMS.  (a)  The board of trustees of a school district with a local revenue level in excess of entitlement may reduce the district's local revenue level by executing an agreement to provide students of one or more other districts with career and technology education through a program designated as an area program for career and technology education.(b)  The agreement is not effective unless the commissioner certifies that:(1)  implementation of the agreement will not result in any of the affected districts' local revenue level being greater than the level established under Section 48.257; and(2)  the agreement requires the district with a local revenue level in excess of entitlement to make expenditures benefiting students from other districts in an amount at least equal to the amount that would be required for the district to purchase attendance credit under Subchapter D necessary, in combination with any other actions taken under this chapter other than an action under this section, to reduce the district's local revenue level to a level that is equal to or less than the level established under Section 48.257.|Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 61, Sec. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Section 41.125 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.057, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.251 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter F. Tax Base Consolidation|Section 49.251. Agreement

Sec. 49.251.  AGREEMENT.  The board of trustees of two or more school districts may execute an agreement to conduct an election on the creation of a consolidated taxing district for the maintenance and operation of the component school districts.  The agreement is subject to approval by the commissioner.  The agreement is not effective unless the commissioner certifies that the consolidated taxing district will have a local revenue level equal to or less than the level established under Section 48.257 after all actions taken under this chapter.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Subchapter F, Chapter 41 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.058, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.252 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter F. Tax Base Consolidation|Section 49.252. Date of Election

Sec. 49.252.  DATE OF ELECTION.  Any agreement under this subchapter must provide for the ordering of an election to be held on the same date in each district.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Subchapter F, Chapter 41 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.058, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.253 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter F. Tax Base Consolidation|Section 49.253. Proposition

Sec. 49.253.  PROPOSITION.  (a)  The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "Creation of a consolidated taxing district composed of the territory of _________________________ school districts, and authorizing the levy, assessment, and collection of annual ad valorem taxes for the maintenance of the public free schools within that taxing district at a rate not to exceed $_________ on the $100 valuation of taxable property."(b)  The rate to be included in the proposition shall be provided by the agreement among the districts but may not exceed the maximum rate provided by law for independent school districts.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Subchapter F, Chapter 41 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.058, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.254 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter F. Tax Base Consolidation|Section 49.254. Approval

Sec. 49.254.  APPROVAL.  The proposition is approved only if the proposition receives a favorable vote of the majority of the votes cast within each participating school district.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Subchapter F, Chapter 41 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.058, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.255 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter F. Tax Base Consolidation|Section 49.255. Consolidated Taxing District

Sec. 49.255.  CONSOLIDATED TAXING DISTRICT.  A consolidated taxing district is a school district established for the limited purpose of exercising the taxing power authorized by Section 3, Article VII, Texas Constitution, and distributing the revenue to its component school districts.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Subchapter F, Chapter 41 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.058, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.256 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter F. Tax Base Consolidation|Section 49.256. Governance

Sec. 49.256.  GOVERNANCE.  (a)  The consolidated taxing district is governed by the boards of the component school districts acting jointly.(b)  Any action taken by the joint board must receive a favorable vote of a majority of each component district's board of trustees.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Subchapter F, Chapter 41 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.058, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.257 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter F. Tax Base Consolidation|Section 49.257. Maintenance Tax

Sec. 49.257.  MAINTENANCE TAX.  (a)  The joint board shall levy a maintenance tax for the benefit of the component school districts not later than September 1 of each year or as soon thereafter as practicable.(b)  Each component district shall bear a share of the costs of assessing and collecting taxes in proportion to the component district's share of weighted average daily attendance in the consolidated taxing district.(c)  A component district may not levy an ad valorem tax for the maintenance and operation of the schools.(d)  Notwithstanding Section 45.003, the consolidated taxing district may levy, assess, and collect a maintenance tax for the benefit of the component districts at a rate that exceeds $1.50 per $100 valuation of taxable property to the extent necessary to pay contracted obligations on the lease purchase of permanent improvements to real property entered into on or before May 12, 1993.  The proposition to impose taxes at the necessary rate must be submitted to the voters in the manner provided by Section 45.003.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Subchapter F, Chapter 41 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.058, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.258 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter F. Tax Base Consolidation|Section 49.258. Revenue Distribution

Sec. 49.258.  REVENUE DISTRIBUTION.  The consolidated taxing district shall distribute maintenance tax revenue to the component districts on the basis of the number of students in weighted average daily attendance in the component districts.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Subchapter F, Chapter 41 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.058, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.259 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter F. Tax Base Consolidation|Section 49.259. Taxes of Component Districts

Sec. 49.259.  TAXES OF COMPONENT DISTRICTS.  (a)  The governing board of a component school district of a consolidated taxing district that has consolidated for maintenance and operation purposes only may issue bonds and levy, pledge, and collect ad valorem taxes within that component district sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on those bonds as provided by Chapter 45.(b)  A component district levying an ad valorem tax under this section or Section 49.260(b)(1) is entitled to the guaranteed yield provided by Subchapter E, Chapter 48, for that portion of its tax rate that, when added to the maintenance tax levied by the consolidated taxing unit, does not exceed the limitation provided by Section 48.203.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Subchapter F, Chapter 41 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.058, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.260 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter F. Tax Base Consolidation|Section 49.260. Optional Total Tax Base Consolidation

Sec. 49.260.  OPTIONAL TOTAL TAX BASE CONSOLIDATION.  (a)  An agreement executed under Section 49.251 may provide for total tax base consolidation instead of consolidation for maintenance and operation purposes only.(b)  Under an agreement providing for total tax base consolidation:(1)  the component districts may not levy maintenance or bond taxes, except to the extent necessary to retire bonds and other obligations issued before the effective date of the consolidation;(2)  the joint board may issue bonds and levy, pledge, and collect ad valorem taxes sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on those bonds, and issue refunding bonds, as provided by Chapter 45 for independent school districts; and(3)  to the end of the ballot proposition required under Section 49.253(a) shall be added ", and further to create a consolidated tax base for the repayment of all bonded indebtedness issued by the joint board of the taxing district after the effective date of the consolidation and to authorize the joint board to levy, pledge, and collect ad valorem taxes at a rate sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on those bonds."(c)  Under an agreement providing for total tax base consolidation:(1)  the component districts may provide for the consolidated taxing district to assume all of the indebtedness of all component districts; and(2)  to the end of the ballot proposition required by Section 49.253(a) shall be added ", and further to create a consolidated tax base for the repayment of all bonded indebtedness issued by the joint board of the taxing district or previously issued by the component school districts and to authorize the joint board to levy, pledge, and collect ad valorem taxes at a rate sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on those bonds."|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Subchapter F, Chapter 41 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.058, eff. September 1, 2019.|
TX Educ Code § 49.301 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Education Code|Title 2 - Public Education|Subtitle I - School Finance and Fiscal Management|Chapter 49 - Options for Local Revenue Levels in Excess of Entitlement|Subchapter G. Detachment and Annexation by Commissioner|Section 49.301. Definition

Sec. 49.301.  DEFINITION.  In this subchapter, "mineral property" means a real property mineral interest that has been severed from the surface estate by a mineral lease creating a determinable fee or by a conveyance that creates an interest taxable separately from the surface estate.  A mineral property includes each royalty interest, working interest, or other undivided interest in the mineral property.|Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.Transferred, redesignated and amended from Education Code, Subchapter G, Chapter 41 by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 943 (H.B. 3), Sec. 1.059, eff. September 1, 2019.|