HB3244 Summary: School Facility and Resources Tax

• Expands the County School Facility Occupation Tax (Section 5-1006.7 of Counties Code) to allow revenues to be used for school resource officers and mental health professionals in addition to school facility purposes.

• Adds new ballot language options for county referendums allowing voters to choose whether tax proceeds fund: (i) facility purposes only, (ii) facility purposes plus resource officers and mental health professionals, or (iii) resource officers and mental health professionals only.

• Modifies school construction eligibility standards to clarify that districts in counties imposing the school facility tax are not restricted from receiving state school construction grants based on local tax revenues.

• Updates School Code sections (3-14.31, 10-20.43, 10-22.36, 17-2.11) to reflect the expanded uses of school facility and resources tax revenues, including naming the tax the "County School Facility and Resources Occupation Tax Law."

• Establishes procedures for county boards to reduce or discontinue the tax through voter referendum, with special provisions protecting school districts that have issued bonds secured by these revenues.