2023 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 204
BY SENATORS FIELDS, ABRAHAM, BARROW, BERNARD, BOUDREAUX, BOUIE,
CARTER, CATHEY, CLOUD, CONNICK, CORTEZ, DUPLESSIS,
FESI, FOIL, HARRIS, HENSGENS, HEWITT, JACKSON,
KLEINPETER, LUNEAU, MILLIGAN, FRED MILLS, ROBERT
MILLS, MIZELL, MORRIS, PEACOCK, POPE, PRICE, REESE,
SMITH, STINE, TALBOT, TARVER, WHITE AND WOMACK
A RESOLUTION
To urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to recognize
and include increased funding, as provided in House Bill No. 1 of the 2023 Regular
Session, when developing and adopting a minimum foundation program formula for
the 2024-2025 Fiscal Year and in future years.
WHEREAS, Article VIII, Section 13(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana requires the
State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) to develop and adopt, annually,
a formula which is to be used to determine the cost of a minimum foundation program
(MFP) of education in all public elementary and secondary schools; and
WHEREAS, on March 8, 2023, BESE adopted such a formula to determine the cost
and allocation of funds for the 2023-2024 Fiscal Year, and on March 15, 2023, submitted
it to the legislature; and
WHEREAS, an instrument providing for legislative approval of the formula was
introduced for consideration, Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 2; and
WHEREAS, the proposed formula includes, among other components, provisions
for: increased funding for pay raises and associated retirement costs, funding for
differentiated compensation, funding for an apprenticeship program, and funding for Ecole
Pointe au Chien; and
WHEREAS, the formula includes an across-the-board two thousand dollar pay raise
plus the current year applicable retirement contributions for certified personnel; and
WHEREAS, the formula includes an across-the-board one-thousand dollar pay raise
plus the current year applicable retirement contributions for non-certified personnel; and
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WHEREAS, in order to provide for funding these components of the formula in an
amount determined by the legislature, the legislature intends to amend House Bill No. 1 of
the 2023 Regular Session in order to provide for this funding outside of the formula by
directing the state Department of Education to allocate such funds in the same manner in
which they would have been allocated pursuant to the MFP formula; and
WHEREAS, it is the intent of the legislature that this increase in funding, although
provided for outside of the MFP formula for the 2023-2024 Fiscal Year, be recognized and
included by the BESE in future years.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby urge and request the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to
recognize and include provisions for increased funding to provide the two-thousand dollar
pay raise for certified personnel and the one-thousand dollar pay raise for non-certified
personnel, along with related employer retirement contributions, as provided in House Bill
No. 1 of the 2023 Regular Session of the Legislature, when developing and adopting a
minimum foundation program formula for the 2024-2025 Fiscal Year and in future years.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
president of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, state superintendent
of education, commissioner of administration, and governor.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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