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1	1	88R7763 MEW-D
2	2	By: Hinojosa H.B. No. 4586
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to the basic allotment and guaranteed yield under the
8	8	Foundation School Program and compensation increases for public
9	9	school employees.
10	10	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	11	SECTION 1. Section 48.051, Education Code, is amended by
12	12	amending Subsections (a), (c), and (c-1) and adding Subsections
13	13	(a-1), (c-3), and (c-4) to read as follows:
14	14	(a) Subject to adjustment under Subsection (a-1), for [For]
15	15	each student in average daily attendance, not including the time
16	16	students spend each day in special education programs in an
17	17	instructional arrangement other than mainstream or career and
18	18	technology education programs, for which an additional allotment is
19	19	made under Subchapter C, a district is entitled to an allotment
20	20	equal to the lesser of $7,075 [$6,160] or the amount that results
21	21	from the following formula:
22	22	A = $7,075 [$6,160] X TR/MCR
23	23	where:
24	24	"A" is the allotment to which a district is entitled;
25	25	"TR" is the district's tier one maintenance and operations
26	26	tax rate, as provided by Section 45.0032; and
27	27	"MCR" is the district's maximum compressed tax rate, as
28	28	determined under Section 48.2551.
29	29	(a-1) Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, the basic
30	30	allotment provided to a district under Subsection (a) or (b) is
31	31	adjusted annually to increase the allotment by the amount that
32	32	results from applying the inflation rate, as determined by the
33	33	comptroller on the basis of changes in the Consumer Price Index for
34	34	All Urban Consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
35	35	the United States Department of Labor, to the allotment for the
36	36	preceding school year.
37	37	(c) During any school year for which the maximum amount of
38	38	the basic allotment provided under Subsection (a), (a-1), or (b) is
39	39	greater than the maximum amount provided for the preceding school
40	40	year, a school district must use at least 75 [30] percent of the
41	41	amount, if the amount is greater than zero, that equals the product
42	42	of the average daily attendance of the district multiplied by the
43	43	amount of the difference between the district's funding under this
44	44	chapter per student in average daily attendance for the current
45	45	school year and the preceding school year to provide compensation
46	46	increases to full-time district employees other than
47	47	administrators as follows:
48	48	(1) 50 [75] percent must be used to increase the
49	49	compensation paid to classroom teachers, full-time librarians,
50	50	full-time school counselors certified under Subchapter B, Chapter
51	51	21, and full-time school nurses, prioritizing differentiated
52	52	compensation for classroom teachers with more than five years of
53	53	experience; and
54	54	(2) 25 percent must [may] be used [as determined by the
55	55	district] to increase compensation paid to [full-time] district
56	56	employees other than employees described by Subdivision (1).
57	57	(c-1) A school district employee who received a salary or
58	58	wage increase under this section [Subsection (c) from a school
59	59	district] for the 2023-2024 [2019-2020] school year is, as long as
60	60	the employee remains employed by the same school district and the
61	61	district is receiving at least the same amount of funding as the
62	62	amount of funding the district received for the 2023-2024
63	63	[2019-2020] school year, entitled to salary or wages that is at
64	64	least equal to the salary or wages the employee received for the
65	65	2023-2024 [2019-2020] school year. [This subsection does not
66	66	apply if the board of trustees of the school district at which the
67	67	employee is employed:
68	68	[(1) complies with Sections 21.4021, 21.4022, and
69	69	21.4032 in reducing the employee's salary; and
70	70	[(2) has adopted a resolution declaring a financial
71	71	exigency for the district under Section 44.011.]
72	72	(c-3) Notwithstanding Subsection (c), for the 2023-2024
73	73	school year, a school district shall use at least 75 percent of the
74	74	amount that equals the product of the average daily attendance of
75	75	the district multiplied by the amount of the difference between the
76	76	district's funding under this chapter per student in average daily
77	77	attendance for the 2023-2024 school year and the 2022-2023 school
78	78	year to provide compensation increases to full-time district
79	79	employees other than administrators as follows:
80	80	(1) 50 percent must be used to increase the salary paid
81	81	to each classroom teacher, full-time librarian, full-time school
82	82	counselor certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, and full-time
83	83	school nurse employed by the district in the 2022-2023 school year
84	84	by:
85	85	(A) at least $10,000; or
86	86	(B) if the amount that a district must allocate
87	87	to provide the salary increases under this subdivision is
88	88	insufficient to provide the increase described by Paragraph (A),
89	89	the maximum amount by which the district may equally increase the
90	90	salary of each classroom teacher, full-time librarian, full-time
91	91	school counselor certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, and
92	92	full-time school nurse employed by the district in the 2022-2023
93	93	school year; and
94	94	(2) 25 percent must be used to increase the salary or
95	95	wages of each district employee other than an employee described by
96	96	Subdivision (1) employed by the district in the 2022-2023 school
97	97	year by:
98	98	(A) at least 15 percent; or
99	99	(B) if the amount that a district must allocate
100	100	to provide the salary or wage increases under this subdivision is
101	101	insufficient to provide the increase described by Paragraph (A),
102	102	the maximum percentage increase that may be applied equally to
103	103	increase the salary or wages of each district employee other than an
104	104	employee described by Subdivision (1) employed by the district in
105	105	the 2022-2023 school year.
106	106	(c-4) Subsection (c-3) and this subsection expire September
107	107	1, 2024.
108	108	SECTION 2. Section 48.202(a-1), Education Code, is amended
109	109	to read as follows:
110	110	(a-1) For purposes of Subsection (a), the dollar amount
111	111	guaranteed level of state and local funds per weighted student per
112	112	cent of tax effort ("GL") for a school district is:
113	113	(1) the greater of the amount of district tax revenue
114	114	per weighted student per cent of tax effort available to a school
115	115	district at the 96th percentile of wealth per weighted student or
116	116	the amount that results from multiplying 7,075 [6,160], or the
117	117	greater amount provided under Section 48.051(a-1) or (b)
118	118	[48.051(b)], if applicable, by 0.016, for the first eight cents by
119	119	which the district's maintenance and operations tax rate exceeds
120	120	the district's tier one tax rate; and
121	121	(2) subject to Subsection (f), the amount that results
122	122	from multiplying $7,075 [$6,160], or the greater amount provided
123	123	under Section 48.051(a-1) or (b) [48.051(b)], if applicable, by
124	124	0.008, for the district's maintenance and operations tax effort
125	125	that exceeds the amount of tax effort described by Subdivision (1).
126	126	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.