(a) General provisions. For the purpose of determining state aid and excess local revenue under the Texas Education Code (TEC), Chapter 46 and Chapter 48, calculations that include tax collections as a data element shall reference subsection (b) of this section.
(b) Definitions. The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
  (1) Total levy. The sum of the maintenance and operation and debt service levies generated by applying a school district's adopted tax rates to its locally assessed valuation of property for the current tax year.
  (2) Tax collection.
    (A) For school districts with a fiscal year that begins on July 1, total taxes collected between July 1 and June 30 for the current and all prior years' levies.
    (B) For school districts with a fiscal year that begins on September 1, total taxes collected between September 1 and August 31 for the current and all prior years' levies.
    (C) For a school district that has been awarded a property value adjustment for a major taxpayer protest pursuant to TEC, §48.267, the district may petition the commissioner of education to attribute taxes that had been withheld due to the protest of valuation to the year in which the taxes were originally levied.
  (3) Types of tax collections.
    (A) Maintenance and operations taxes are those taxes collected during the fiscal year that are associated with the levy of local maintenance and operations tax rates, including current and delinquent taxes and any delinquent taxes related to former county education districts, but not including penalties and interest that accrue on delinquent maintenance and operations tax levies or the tax credits authorized by the Texas Tax Code, Chapter 313.
    (B) Interest and sinking fund taxes are those associated with the levy of local interest and sinking fund taxes, not including penalties and interest that accrue on delinquent interest and sinking funds tax levies.

Source Note: The provisions of this §61.1007 adopted to be effective July 27, 2021, 46 TexReg 4451