Sec. 31.0212. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ACCOUNT. (a) The commissioner shall maintain an instructional materials account for each school district. In the first year of each biennium, the commissioner shall deposit in the account for each district the amount of the district's instructional materials allotment under Section 31.0211.
(b) The commissioner shall pay the cost of instructional materials requisitioned by a school district under Section 31.103 using funds from the district's instructional materials account.
(c) A school district may also use funds in the district's account to purchase electronic instructional materials or technological equipment. The district shall submit to the commissioner a request for funds for this purpose from the district's account. The commissioner shall adopt rules regarding the documentation a school district must submit to receive funds under this subsection.
(d) Money deposited in a school district's instructional materials account during each state fiscal biennium remains in the account and available for use by the district for the entire biennium. At the end of each biennium, a district with unused money in the district's account may carry forward any remaining balance to the next biennium.
(e) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this section. The rules must include a requirement that a school district provide the title and publication information for any instructional materials requisitioned or purchased by the district with the district's instructional materials allotment.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 6 (S.B. 6), Sec. 23, eff. July 19, 2011.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 731 (H.B. 1474), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2015.
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