(a) A school district or an open-enrollment charter
school may requisition and receive state-adopted instructional materials
before instructional materials and technology allotment funds for
those materials are available.
(b) The total cost of delayed-payment-option materials
requisitioned by a school district or an open-enrollment charter school
may not exceed 80% of the district's or charter school's expected
allotment for the subsequent biennium.
(c) When a school district or an open-enrollment charter
school submits a requisition for instructional materials under this
section, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) will expend a district's
or charter school's existing allotment balance before applying the
delayed payment option.
(d) The TEA will make payment for any remaining balance
for a school district's or an open-enrollment charter school's order
under this section as the allotment funds become available.
(e) The TEA will prioritize payment for requisitions
under this section over reimbursement of purchases made directly by
a school district or an open-enrollment charter school.
(f) Publishers may decline orders for which payments
could be delayed. A publisher's decision to decline an order under
this section shall affect all of that publisher's orders for which
payments could be delayed. Publishers may not selectively decline
individual orders or orders from individual school districts or open-enrollment
charter schools.
(g) Texas Government Code, Chapter 2251, does not apply
to requisitions placed under this section.
(h) Texas Education Code, §31.151, does apply
to orders placed under this section.
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