Bill Text: TX HB177 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a bonus payment for certain public school employees and to the public school finance system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 44-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-10-19 - Filed [HB177 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB177-Introduced.html
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| By: Hinojosa | H.B. No. 177 | |
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| relating to a bonus payment for certain public school employees and | ||
| to the public school finance system. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 21.4023 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 21.4023. BONUS PAYMENT FOR 2023-2024 SCHOOL YEAR. (a) | ||
| For the 2023-2024 school year, a school district shall provide to | ||
| each classroom teacher, full-time librarian, full-time school | ||
| counselor certified under Subchapter B, or full-time school nurse | ||
| employed by the district a one-time bonus payment of $15,000 in | ||
| addition to the employee's compensation for the 2023-2024 school | ||
| year to be paid to the employee at the end of the 2023-2024 school | ||
| year. | ||
| (b) A bonus payment provided to a classroom teacher under | ||
| this section is not considered in determining whether a school | ||
| district is paying the teacher the minimum monthly salary under | ||
| Section 21.402. | ||
| (c) This section expires September 1, 2024. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 22.008 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 22.008. BONUS PAYMENT FOR 2023-2024 SCHOOL YEAR FOR | ||
| SUPPORT STAFF. (a) For the 2023-2024 school year, a school | ||
| district shall provide to each employee, other than an | ||
| administrator or an employee subject to the minimum salary schedule | ||
| under Section 21.402, who is compensated less than $100,000 per | ||
| year in salary or wages a one-time bonus payment of $5,500 in | ||
| addition to the employee's compensation for the 2023-2024 school | ||
| year to be paid to the employee at the end of the 2023-2024 school | ||
| year. | ||
| (b) This section expires September 1, 2024. | ||
| SECTION 3. Effective September 1, 2024, Section 48.051, | ||
| Education Code, is amended by amending Subsections (a) and (c) and | ||
| adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Subject to adjustment under Subsection (a-1), for [ |
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| 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 $8,947 [ |
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| from the following formula: | ||
| A = $8,947 [ |
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| 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 2025-2026 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. | ||
| (a-2) If the inflation rate for a school year is less than | ||
| zero, the inflation rate to be used for purposes of Subsection (a-1) | ||
| is zero. | ||
| (c) During any school year for which the maximum amount of | ||
| the basic allotment provided under Subsection (a) or (b) is greater | ||
| than the maximum amount provided for the preceding school year, a | ||
| school district must use at least 40 [ |
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| 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) 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 may be used as determined by the | ||
| district to increase compensation paid to full-time district | ||
| employees. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 48.102, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) To address the extraordinary gap between the amount of | ||
| the allotment under this section and school district expenses for | ||
| special education, a school district that for the 2023-2024 school | ||
| year spent a greater amount for students in a special education | ||
| program under Subchapter A, Chapter 29, than the amount the | ||
| district received from the allotment under this section is entitled | ||
| to additional funding for the 2024-2025 school year in an amount | ||
| equal to twice the amount of the difference between the total of | ||
| those amounts. This subsection expires September 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 5. Section 48.115, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (a-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-2) To address the extraordinary gap between the amount of | ||
| the allotment under this section and school district expenses for | ||
| school safety and security improvements, a school district that for | ||
| the 2023-2024 school year spent a greater amount for school safety | ||
| and security improvements than the amount the district received | ||
| from the allotment under this section is entitled to additional | ||
| funding for the 2024-2025 school year in an amount equal to the | ||
| difference between the total of those amounts. This subsection | ||
| expires September 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 6. Subchapter D, Chapter 48, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 48.157 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 48.157. SUPPLEMENTAL GRANT TO ADDRESS EDUCATIONAL | ||
| NEEDS FOLLOWING COVID-19 PANDEMIC. (a) For the 2023-2024 school | ||
| year, a school district is entitled to a grant of $800 for each | ||
| student enrolled in the district to ensure that the school district | ||
| has adequate funding to address the educational needs of the | ||
| district's students following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) | ||
| pandemic. | ||
| (b) This section expires September 1, 2024. | ||
| SECTION 7. Effective September 1, 2024, 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 $8,947 [ |
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| greater amount provided under Section 48.051(a-1) or (b) | ||
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| 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 $8,947 [ |
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| under Section 48.051(a-1) or (b) [ |
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| 0.008, for the district's maintenance and operations tax effort | ||
| that exceeds the amount of tax effort described by Subdivision (1). | ||
| SECTION 8. Subchapter F, Chapter 48, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 48.2521 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 48.2521. ADDITIONAL STATE AID FOR ONE-TIME BONUSES FOR | ||
| CERTAIN PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES. (a) For the 2023-2024 school | ||
| year, a school district, including a school district that is | ||
| otherwise ineligible for state aid under this chapter, is entitled | ||
| to annual state aid in the sum of: | ||
| (1) the amount equal to the product of $15,000 | ||
| multiplied by the number of classroom teachers, full-time | ||
| librarians, full-time school counselors certified under Subchapter | ||
| B, Chapter 21, and full-time school nurses employed by the | ||
| district; and | ||
| (2) the amount equal to the product of $5,500 | ||
| multiplied by the number of employees, other than an administrator | ||
| or an employee subject to the minimum salary schedule under Section | ||
| 21.402, employed by the district who are compensated less than | ||
| $100,000 per year in salary or wages. | ||
| (b) A school district shall use the amount received under | ||
| this section for purposes of providing the one-time bonus payments | ||
| under Sections 21.4023 and 22.008. | ||
| (c) This section expires September 1, 2024. | ||
| SECTION 9. Except as otherwise provided by this Act, this | ||
| Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of | ||
| all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, | ||
| Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the | ||
| vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect on the | ||
| 91st day after the last day of the legislative session. | ||
