HBA-MSH H.B. 933 77(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 933
By: Solis, Jim
Public Education
4/9/2001
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Under current law, a school district may not have a wealth per student that
exceeds $295,000.  The determination of whether a school district is at or
below the equalized wealth level is calculated using the district's final
weighted average daily attendance (WADA), and the number of attendance
credits a district purchases or the number of nonresident students a
district educates for a school year.  Some school districts have students
who attend magnet schools in another district.  The school district is not
allowed to include these students in their WADA and thus loses revenue to
the magnet school.  House Bill 933 includes students who reside in a school
district but attend a magnet school in another district in calculations of
a school district's wealth per student. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

ANALYSIS

House Bill 933 amends the Education Code to include among the factors that
the commissioner of education is required to use when determining whether a
school district has a wealth per student less than or equal to the
equalized wealth level the average daily attendance of students who attend
a magnet school in another school district whose territory overlaps that of
the district and of other districts if the students previously attended
school in the district and are eligible to attend school in the district.  

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act
takes effect September 1, 2001. The Act applies beginning with the
2001-2002 school year.