Texas Education Code Title 2, Chapter 46 - Assistance With Instructional Facilities And Payment Of Existing Debt

SUBCHAPTER A INSTRUCTIONAL FACILITIES ALLOTMENT

• Texas Section 46.001 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "instructional facility" means real property, an improvement to real property, or a necessary fixture of an improvement to real property that is...
• Texas Section 46.002 - Rules
  (a) The commissioner may adopt rules for the administration of this subchapter. (b) The commissioner's rules may limit the amount of an allotment under this...
• Texas Section 46.003 - School Facilities Allotment
  (a) For each year, except as provided by Sections 46.005 and 46.006, a school district is guaranteed a specified amount per student in state and...
• Texas Section 46.004 - Lease-purchase Agreements
  (a) A district may receive state assistance in connection with a lease-purchase agreement concerning an instructional facility. For purposes of this subchapter: (1) taxes levied...
• Texas Section 46.005 - Limitation On Guaranteed Amount
  The guaranteed amount of state and local funds for a new project that a district may be awarded in any state fiscal biennium under Section...
• Texas Section 46.006 - Shortage Or Excess Of Funds Appropriated For New Projects
  (a) If the total amount appropriated for a year for new projects is less than the amount of money to which school districts applying for...
• Texas Section 46.007 - Refunding Bonds
  A school district may use state funds received under this subchapter to pay the principal of and interest on refunding bonds that: (1) are issued...
• Texas Section 46.008 - Standards
  (a) The commissioner shall establish standards for adequacy of school facilities. The standards must include requirements related to space, educational adequacy, and construction quality. All...
• Texas Section 46.0081 - Security Criteria In Design Of Instructional Facilities
  A school district that constructs a new instructional facility or conducts a major renovation of an existing instructional facility using funds allotted to the district...
• Texas Section 46.009 - Payment Of School Facilities Allotments
  (a) For each school year, the commissioner shall determine the amount of money to which each school district is entitled under this subchapter. (b) If...
• Texas Section 46.010 - Projects By More Than One District
  If two or more districts apply for state assistance in connection with a joint project at a single location, each district is entitled to a...
• Texas Section 46.011 - Sale Of Instructional Facility Financed With Instructional Facilities Allotment
  (a) If an instructional facility financed by bonds paid with state and local funds under this subchapter is sold before the bonds are fully paid,...
• Texas Section 46.0111 - Actions Brought For Defective Design, Construction, Renovation, Or Improvement Of Instructional Facility
  (a) In this section: (1) "Net proceeds" means the difference between the amount recovered by or on behalf of a school district in an action,...
• Texas Section 46.012 - Applicability To Open-enrollment Charter Schools
  An open-enrollment charter school is not entitled to an allotment under this subchapter. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1504, Sec. 30, eff. Sept....

SUBCHAPTER B ASSISTANCE WITH PAYMENT OF EXISTING DEBT

• Texas Section 46.013 - Multiple Allotments Prohibited
  A school district is not entitled to state assistance under this subchapter based on taxes with respect to which the district receives state assistance under...
• Texas Section 46.031 - Rules
  The commissioner may adopt rules for the administration of this subchapter. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 396, Sec. 1.29, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
• Texas Section 46.032 - Allotment
  (a) Each school district is guaranteed a specified amount per student in state and local funds for each cent of tax effort to pay the...
• Texas Section 46.033 - Eligible Bonds
  Bonds, including bonds issued under Section 45.006, are eligible to be paid with state and local funds under this subchapter if: (1) the district made...
• Texas Section 46.034 - Limits On Assistance
  (a) The existing debt tax rate ("EDTR") under Section 46.032 may not exceed $0.29 per $100 of valuation, or a greater amount for any year...
• Texas Section 46.035 - Payment Of Assistance
  Section 46.009 applies to the payment of assistance under this subchapter. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 396, Sec. 1.29, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
• Texas Section 46.036 - Applicability To Open-enrollment Charter Schools
  An open-enrollment charter school is not entitled to an allotment under this subchapter. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1504, Sec. 31, eff. Sept....

SUBCHAPTER C REFINANCING

• Texas Section 46.037 - Multiple Allotments Prohibited
  A school district is not entitled to state assistance under this subchapter based on taxes with respect to which the district receives state assistance under...

SUBCHAPTER D STATE AID FOR HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION AND LIMITATION ON TAX INCREASES

• Texas Section 46.061 - State Assistance For Refinancing
  (a) The commissioner by rule may provide for the payment of state assistance under this chapter to refinance school district debt. A refinancing may not...
• Texas Section 46.071 - Additional State Aid For Homestead Exemption And Limitation On Tax Increases
  (a) Beginning with the 2015-2016 school year, a school district is entitled to additional state aid under this subchapter to the extent that state and...

Last modified: September 28, 2016