SLS 23RS-3008 ORIGINAL
2023 Regular Session
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 66
BY SENATOR FIELDS
BESE. Urges and requests BESE to recognize and include increased per pupil funding as
part of the base per-pupil funding for the 2024-2025 MFP.
1 A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
2 To urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to recognize
3 and include increased funding, as provided in House Bill No. 1 of the 2023 Regular
4 Session, when developing and adopting a minimum foundation program formula for
5 the 2024-2025 Fiscal Year and in future years.
6 WHEREAS, Article VIII, Section 13(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana requires the
7 State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) to develop and adopt, annually,
8 a formula which is to be used to determine the cost of a minimum foundation program
9 (MFP) of education in all public elementary and secondary schools; and
10 WHEREAS, on March 8, 2023, BESE adopted such a formula to determine the cost
11 and allocation of funds for the 2023-2024 Fiscal Year, and on March 15, 2023, submitted
12 it to the legislature; and
13 WHEREAS, an instrument providing for legislative approval of the formula was
14 introduced for consideration, Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 2; and
15 WHEREAS, the proposed formula includes, among other components, provisions
16 for increased funding for pay raises and associated retirement costs, funding for
17 differentiated compensation, funding for an apprenticeship program, and funding for Ecole
18 Pointe au Chien; and
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1 WHEREAS, the formula includes an across-the-board two-thousand dollar pay raise
2 plus the current year applicable retirement contributions for certified personnel; and
3 WHEREAS, the formula includes an across-the-board one-thousand dollar pay raise
4 plus the current year applicable retirement contributions for non-certified personnel; and
5 WHEREAS, in order to provide for funding these components of the formula in an
6 amount determined by the legislature, the legislature intends to amend House Bill No. 1 of
7 the 2023 Regular Session in order to provide for this funding outside of the formula by
8 directing the state Department of Education to allocate such funds in the same manner in
9 which they would have been allocated pursuant to the MFP formula; and
10 WHEREAS, it is the intent of the legislature that this increase in funding, although
11 provided for outside of the MFP formula for the 2023-2024 Fiscal Year, be recognized and
12 included by the BESE in future years.
13 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
14 urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to recognize and
15 include provisions for increased funding to provide the two-thousand dollar pay raise for
16 certified personnel and the one-thousand dollar pay raise for non-certified personnel, along
17 with related employer retirement contributions, as provided in House Bill No. 1 of the 2023
18 Regular Session of the Legislature, when developing and adopting a minimum foundation
19 program formula for the 2024-2025 Fiscal Year and in future years.
20 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
21 president of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, state superintendent
22 of education, commissioner of administration, and governor.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Michael Bell.
DIGEST
SCR 66 Original 2023 Regular Session Fields
Requests that BESE recognize and include increased funding as provided in HB 1 of the
2023 RS, when developing and adopting a Minimum Foundation Program formula for the
2024-2025 Fiscal Year and in future years.
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