88R7763 MEW-D
 
  By: Hinojosa H.B. No. 4586
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the basic allotment and guaranteed yield under the
  Foundation School Program and compensation increases for public
  school employees.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 48.051, Education Code, is amended by
  amending Subsections (a), (c), and (c-1) and adding Subsections
  (a-1), (c-3), and (c-4) to read as follows:
         (a)  Subject to adjustment under Subsection (a-1), for [For]
  each student in average daily attendance, not including the time
  students spend each day in special education programs in an
  instructional arrangement other than mainstream or career and
  technology education programs, for which an additional allotment is
  made under Subchapter C, a district is entitled to an allotment
  equal to the lesser of $7,075 [$6,160] or the amount that results
  from the following formula:
  A = $7,075 [$6,160] X TR/MCR
  where:
         "A" is the allotment to which a district is entitled;
         "TR" is the district's tier one maintenance and operations
  tax rate, as provided by Section 45.0032; and
         "MCR" is the district's maximum compressed tax rate, as
  determined under Section 48.2551.
         (a-1)  Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, the basic
  allotment provided to a district under Subsection (a) or (b) is
  adjusted annually to increase the allotment by the amount that
  results from applying the inflation rate, as determined by the
  comptroller on the basis of changes in the Consumer Price Index for
  All Urban Consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
  the United States Department of Labor, to the allotment for the
  preceding school year.
         (c)  During any school year for which the maximum amount of
  the basic allotment provided under Subsection (a), (a-1), or (b) is
  greater than the maximum amount provided for the preceding school
  year, a school district must use at least 75 [30] percent of the
  amount, if the amount is greater than zero, that equals the product
  of the average daily attendance of the district multiplied by the
  amount of the difference between the district's funding under this
  chapter per student in average daily attendance for the current
  school year and the preceding school year to provide compensation
  increases to full-time district employees other than
  administrators as follows:
               (1)  50 [75] percent must be used to increase the
  compensation paid to classroom teachers, full-time librarians,
  full-time school counselors certified under Subchapter B, Chapter
  21, and full-time school nurses, prioritizing differentiated
  compensation for classroom teachers with more than five years of
  experience; and
               (2)  25 percent must [may] be used [as determined by the
  district] to increase compensation paid to [full-time] district
  employees other than employees described by Subdivision (1).
         (c-1)  A school district employee who received a salary or
  wage increase under this section [Subsection (c) from a school
  district] for the 2023-2024 [2019-2020] school year is, as long as
  the employee remains employed by the same school district and the
  district is receiving at least the same amount of funding as the
  amount of funding the district received for the 2023-2024
  [2019-2020] school year, entitled to salary or wages that is at
  least equal to the salary or wages the employee received for the
  2023-2024 [2019-2020] school year.  [This subsection does not
  apply if the board of trustees of the school district at which the
  employee is employed:
               [(1)  complies with Sections 21.4021, 21.4022, and
  21.4032 in reducing the employee's salary; and
               [(2)  has adopted a resolution declaring a financial
  exigency for the district under Section 44.011.]
         (c-3)  Notwithstanding Subsection (c), for the 2023-2024
  school year, a school district shall use at least 75 percent of the
  amount that equals the product of the average daily attendance of
  the district multiplied by the amount of the difference between the
  district's funding under this chapter per student in average daily
  attendance for the 2023-2024 school year and the 2022-2023 school
  year to provide compensation increases to full-time district
  employees other than administrators as follows:
               (1)  50 percent must be used to increase the salary paid
  to each classroom teacher, full-time librarian, full-time school
  counselor certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, and full-time
  school nurse employed by the district in the 2022-2023 school year
  by:
                     (A)  at least $10,000; or
                     (B)  if the amount that a district must allocate
  to provide the salary increases under this subdivision is
  insufficient to provide the increase described by Paragraph (A),
  the maximum amount by which the district may equally increase the
  salary of each classroom teacher, full-time librarian, full-time
  school counselor certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, and
  full-time school nurse employed by the district in the 2022-2023
  school year; and
               (2)  25 percent must be used to increase the salary or
  wages of each district employee other than an employee described by
  Subdivision (1) employed by the district in the 2022-2023 school
  year by:
                     (A)  at least 15 percent; or
                     (B)  if the amount that a district must allocate
  to provide the salary or wage increases under this subdivision is
  insufficient to provide the increase described by Paragraph (A),
  the maximum percentage increase that may be applied equally to
  increase the salary or wages of each district employee other than an
  employee described by Subdivision (1) employed by the district in
  the 2022-2023 school year.
         (c-4)  Subsection (c-3) and this subsection expire September
  1, 2024.
         SECTION 2.  Section 48.202(a-1), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a-1)  For purposes of Subsection (a), the dollar amount
  guaranteed level of state and local funds per weighted student per
  cent of tax effort ("GL") for a school district is:
               (1)  the greater of the amount of district tax revenue
  per weighted student per cent of tax effort available to a school
  district at the 96th percentile of wealth per weighted student or
  the amount that results from multiplying 7,075 [6,160], or the
  greater amount provided under Section 48.051(a-1) or (b)
  [48.051(b)], if applicable, by 0.016, for the first eight cents by
  which the district's maintenance and operations tax rate exceeds
  the district's tier one tax rate; and
               (2)  subject to Subsection (f), the amount that results
  from multiplying $7,075 [$6,160], or the greater amount provided
  under Section 48.051(a-1) or (b) [48.051(b)], if applicable, by
  0.008, for the district's maintenance and operations tax effort
  that exceeds the amount of tax effort described by Subdivision (1).
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.