Issue Date:
Revised Date: 2019-09-01

Legal Cites

Origin:

1918

Purpose

To hold for expenditure money transferred from Available School Fund (0002) to provide free textbooks for use of children attending the public free schools. Used to fund the  Expanded to include funding for the instructional materials allotment to school districts under sec. 31.0211. Other allowable uses include; 

  • Expenses related to purchase instructional materials. 
  • Purchases or licensing of open-source instruction materials.
  • Technology lending grant program.
  • Instructional materials web portal.
  • Inventory software systems for managing and analyzing the effectiveness of instructional materials.
  • Funding to the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, the Texas School for the Deaf, and the Texas Juvenile Justice Department.
Classification Group 02: Constitutional Funds Expendable for a Specific Purpose [?]
Depository Interest Retained in appropriated fund.
Disposition of Balance Accumulative. (Any balance reduces amount subsequently to be transferred from Available School Fund 0002.)
Appropriation Technique General Appropriations Act

Administering Agencies

Note

Amended by H.B. 4294, 81st Leg., R.S. 

Fund title changed from State Textbook Fund and use expanded by S.B. 6, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S.

Fund name changed by adding "Technology" and new web portal use added by S.B. 810 and H.B. 3526, 85th Leg., R.S.

Inventory software use added by H.B. 396, 86th Leg., R.S.

USAS Values

USAS Title STATE TECHNOLOGY INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
Consolidated Fund
State Fund Group 02 - CONSTITUTIONAL FDS EXP FOR SPECIFIC PURP
USAS Status A
Created by the state's constitution or receiving constitutionally dedicated revenue and expended for a specific purpose.