Sec. 42.252. LOCAL SHARE OF PROGRAM COST (TIER ONE). (a) Each school district's share of the Foundation School Program is determined by the following formula:
LFA = TR X DPV
where:
"LFA" is the school district's local share;
"TR" is a tax rate which for each hundred dollars of valuation is an effective tax rate of the amount equal to the product of the state compression percentage, as determined under Section 42.2516, multiplied by the lesser of:
(1) $1.50; or
(2) the maintenance and operations tax rate adopted by the district for the 2005 tax year; and
"DPV" is the taxable value of property in the school district for the preceding tax year determined under Subchapter M, Chapter 403, Government Code.
(a-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), for a school district that adopted a maintenance and operations tax rate for the 2005 tax year below the maximum rate permitted by law for that year, the district's tax rate ("TR") includes the tax effort included in calculating the district's compressed tax rate under Section 42.101(a-1).
(b) The commissioner shall adjust the values reported in the official report of the comptroller as required by Section 5.09(a), Tax Code, to reflect reductions in taxable value of property resulting from natural or economic disaster after January 1 in the year in which the valuations are determined. The decision of the commissioner is final. An adjustment does not affect the local fund assignment of any other school district.
(c) Appeals of district values shall be held pursuant to Section 403.303, Government Code.
(d) A school district must raise its total local share of the Foundation School Program to be eligible to receive foundation school fund payments.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, in computing each school district's local share of program cost under this section for the 2015-2016 school year, a school district's taxable value of property under Subchapter M, Chapter 403, Government Code, is determined as if the increase in the residence homestead exemption under Section 1-b(c), Article VIII, Texas Constitution, and the additional limitation on tax increases under Section 1-b(d) of that article in effect for the 2015 tax year as proposed by S.J.R. 1, 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, had been in effect for the 2014 tax year. This subsection expires September 1, 2016.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1071, Sec. 18, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 396, Sec. 3.01(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1328 (H.B. 3646), Sec. 59, eff. September 1, 2009.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 448 (H.B. 7), Sec. 7, eff. September 1, 2015.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 465 (S.B. 1), Sec. 19, eff. November 3, 2015.
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