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HJR 1, 72nd 3rd C.S.
Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for equal educational opportunity, providing for local control by a school district of local taxes, authorizing the legislature to determine the methods by which school districts are formed and by which state funds appropriated to school districts are allocated, providing for appropriate state funding for rural school districts that are small and sparsely populated, and restricting the power of the courts to overturn a legislative decision regarding the system of or support for public education by adopting federal constitutional law that also preserves equal access to the courts.

Last action: Filed

Author: John Culberson
Joint Author: D.R. Uher | Ashley Smith | Dan Kubiak
Coauthor: Warren Chisum | A.R. Ovard | Glenn Repp | Fred Hill | Anita Hill | Alan Schoolcraft | Charles Finnell | Edmund Kuempel | Anna Mowery | Bill Thomas | Jim Horn | Talmadge Heflin | Gwyn Shea

Subjects:
City Government--Employees/Officers
Education--Primary & Secondary--Finance
Education--School Districts
Taxation--School District


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