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1	1	89R6033 ANG-F
2	2	By: Rodríguez Ramos H.B. No. 2435
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to the basic allotment and the guaranteed yield under the
10	10	Foundation School Program, including an adjustment in those amounts
11	11	to reflect inflation.
12	12	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	13	SECTION 1. Section 48.051, Education Code, is amended by
14	14	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) to
15	15	read as follows:
16	16	(a) Subject to adjustment under Subsection (a-1), for [For]
17	17	each student in average daily attendance, not including the time
18	18	students spend each day in special education programs in an
19	19	instructional arrangement other than mainstream or career and
20	20	technology education programs, for which an additional allotment is
21	21	made under Subchapter C, a district is entitled to an allotment
22	22	equal to the lesser of $8,947 [$6,160] or the amount that results
23	23	from the following formula:
24	24	A = $8,947 [$6,160] X TR/MCR
25	25	where:
26	26	"A" is the allotment to which a district is entitled;
27	27	"TR" is the district's tier one maintenance and operations
28	28	tax rate, as provided by Section 45.0032; and
29	29	"MCR" is the district's maximum compressed tax rate, as
30	30	determined under Section 48.2551.
31	31	(a-1) Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, the basic
32	32	allotment provided to a district under Subsection (a) or (b) is
33	33	adjusted annually to increase the allotment by the amount that
34	34	results from applying the inflation rate, as determined by the
35	35	comptroller on the basis of changes in the Consumer Price Index for
36	36	All Urban Consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
37	37	the United States Department of Labor, to the allotment for the
38	38	preceding school year.
39	39	(a-2) If the inflation rate for a school year is less than
40	40	zero, the inflation rate to be used for purposes of Subsection (a-1)
41	41	is zero.
42	42	SECTION 2. Section 48.202(a-1), Education Code, is amended
43	43	to read as follows:
44	44	(a-1) For purposes of Subsection (a), the dollar amount
45	45	guaranteed level of state and local funds per weighted student per
46	46	cent of tax effort ("GL") for a school district is:
47	47	(1) the greater of the amount of district tax revenue
48	48	per weighted student per cent of tax effort available to a school
49	49	district at the 96th percentile of wealth per weighted student or
50	50	the amount that results from multiplying the maximum amount of the
51	51	basic allotment provided under Section 48˙.051 for the applicable
52	52	school year [6,160, or the greater amount provided under Section
53	53	48.051(b), if applicable,] by 0.016, for the first eight cents by
54	54	which the district's maintenance and operations tax rate exceeds
55	55	the district's tier one tax rate; and
56	56	(2) subject to Subsection (f), the amount that results
57	57	from multiplying the maximum amount of the basic allotment provided
58	58	under Section 48˙.051 for the applicable school year [$6,160, or the
59	59	greater amount provided under Section 48.051(b), if applicable,] by
60	60	0.008, for the district's maintenance and operations tax effort
61	61	that exceeds the amount of tax effort described by Subdivision (1).
62	62	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.