Amend CSSB 4 by inserting the following new SECTION,
appropriately numbered, and renumbering the subsequent SECTIONS:
      SECTION ____.  (a)  For the 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 school
years, for a school district that is required under Chapter 41,
Education Code, to take action to reduce its wealth per student,
the commissioner of education shall reduce the total cost of
attendance credits under Section 41.093, Education Code, if the
district increases the salaries of the district's classroom
teachers and full-time librarians in an amount not greater than the
change in the minimum salary schedule under Section 21.402,
Education Code, as amended by this Act, over the previous minimum
salary schedule and the increase is not offset as specified in
Subsection (b) of this section by the increase in the basic
allotment under Section 42.101, Education Code, as amended by this
Act, or the increase in the equalized wealth level under Section
41.002, Education Code, as amended by this Act.  For each of those
years, the amount of additional salary cost is computed by
determining what the district's salary cost would have been if the
appropriate minimum salary schedule prescribed by Section 21.402,
Education Code, as amended by this Act, had been in effect for the
1998-1999 school year and comparing the difference between that
cost and the amount the district was required to pay under the
minimum salary schedule that was in effect for the 1998-1999 school
year to the additional state funding the district would have
received as a result of the changes to the basic allotment and
equalized wealth level if those changes had been in effect for the
1998-1999 school year.  For this purpose, the commissioner shall
use 1998-1999 employment and salary data as reported through the
Public Education Information Management Systems (PEIMS).
      (b)  The commissioner shall reduce a school district's total
cost of attendance credits under this section only if:
            (1)  the school district uses the amount of additional
state funds as required by Section 20(b) of this Act to increase
the salaries of classroom teachers and full-time librarians; and
            (2)  that amount does not fully offset the additional
salary cost.
      (c)  A decision by the commissioner under this section is
final and nonappealable.