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.