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1	1	By: Johnson S.B. No. 11
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to the basic allotment and guaranteed yield under the
7	7	Foundation School Program, including an adjustment in those amounts
8	8	to reflect inflation.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 48.051, Education Code, is amended by
11	11	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as
12	12	follows:
13	13	(a) Subject to adjustment under Subsection (a-1), for [For]
14	14	each student in average daily attendance, not including the time
15	15	students spend each day in special education programs in an
16	16	instructional arrangement other than mainstream or career and
17	17	technology education programs, for which an additional allotment is
18	18	made under Subchapter C, a district is entitled to an allotment
19	19	equal to the lesser of $7,365 [$6,160] or the amount that results
20	20	from the following formula:
21	21	A = $7,365 [$6,160] X TR/MCR
22	22	where:
23	23	"A" is the allotment to which a district is entitled;
24	24	"TR" is the district's tier one maintenance and operations
25	25	tax rate, as provided by Section 45.0032; and
26	26	"MCR" is the district's maximum compressed tax rate, as
27	27	determined under Section 48.2551.
28	28	(a-1) Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, the basic
29	29	allotment provided to a district under Subsection (a) or (b) is
30	30	adjusted annually to increase the allotment by a factor equal to the
31	31	average annual percentage increase, if any, in the Consumer Price
32	32	Index for All Urban Consumers published by the Bureau of Labor
33	33	Statistics of the United States Department of Labor for the
34	34	preceding five years.
35	35	SECTION 2. Section 48.115(a), Education Code, is amended to
36	36	read as follows:
37	37	(a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), a school
38	38	district is entitled to an annual allotment equal to the sum of the
39	39	following amounts or a greater amount provided by appropriation:
40	40	(1) $10 for each student in average daily attendance,
41	41	plus $1 for each student in average daily attendance per every $50
42	42	by which the district's maximum basic allotment under Section
43	43	48.051 exceeds $7,365 [$6,160], prorated as necessary; and
44	44	(2) $15,000 per campus.
45	45	SECTION 3. Section 48.202(a-1), Education Code, is amended
46	46	to read as follows:
47	47	(a-1) For purposes of Subsection (a), the dollar amount
48	48	guaranteed level of state and local funds per weighted student per
49	49	cent of tax effort ("GL") for a school district is:
50	50	(1) the greater of the amount of district tax revenue
51	51	per weighted student per cent of tax effort available to a school
52	52	district at the 96th percentile of wealth per weighted student or
53	53	the amount that results from multiplying the maximum amount of the
54	54	basic allotment provided under Section 48.051 for the applicable
55	55	school year [6,160, or the greater amount provided under Section
56	56	48.051(b), if applicable,] by 0.016, for the first eight cents by
57	57	which the district's maintenance and operations tax rate exceeds
58	58	the district's tier one tax rate; and
59	59	(2) subject to Subsection (f), the amount that results
60	60	from multiplying the maximum amount of the basic allotment provided
61	61	under Section 48.051 for the applicable school year [$6,160, or the
62	62	greater amount provided under Section 48.051(b), if applicable,] by
63	63	0.008, for the district's maintenance and operations tax effort
64	64	that exceeds the amount of tax effort described by Subdivision (1).
65	65	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the
66	66	last day of the legislative session.