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Amend Floor Amendment No. 1 to SB 1848 on page 1 of the
amendment, between lines 2 and 3, by adding the following
appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS
accordingly:
SECTION __. Section 42.2516, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-2) to read as
follows:
(b) Subject to Subsections (b-2), (g), and (h), but
notwithstanding any other provision of this title, a school
district is entitled to state revenue necessary to provide the
district with the sum of:
(1) the amount of state revenue necessary to maintain
state and local revenue per student in weighted average daily
attendance in the amount equal to the greater of:
(A) the amount of state and local revenue per
student in weighted average daily attendance for the maintenance
and operations of the district available to the district for the
2005-2006 school year;
(B) the amount of state and local revenue per
student in weighted average daily attendance for the maintenance
and operations of the district to which the district would have been
entitled for the 2006-2007 school year under this chapter, as it
existed on January 1, 2006, or, if the district would have been
subject to Chapter 41, as that chapter existed on January 1, 2006,
the amount to which the district would have been entitled under that
chapter, based on the funding elements in effect for the 2005-2006
school year, if the district imposed a maintenance and operations
tax at the rate adopted by the district for the 2005 tax year; or
(C) the amount of state and local revenue per
student in weighted average daily attendance for the maintenance
and operations of the district to which the district would have been
entitled for the 2006-2007 school year under this chapter, as it
existed on January 1, 2006, or, if the district would have been
subject to Chapter 41, as that chapter existed on January 1, 2006,
the amount to which the district would have been entitled under that
chapter, based on the funding elements in effect for the 2005-2006
school year, if the district imposed a maintenance and operations
tax at the rate equal to the rate described by Section 26.08(i) or
(k)(1), Tax Code, as applicable, for the 2006 tax year;
(2) an amount equal to the product of $2,500
multiplied by the number of classroom teachers, full-time
librarians, full-time counselors certified under Subchapter B,
Chapter 21, and full-time school nurses employed by the district
and entitled to a minimum salary under Section 21.402; and
(3) an amount equal to the product of $275 multiplied
by the number of students in average daily attendance in grades nine
through 12 in the district.
(b-2) The amount determined for a school district under
Subsection (b) is increased or reduced as follows:
(1) if for any school year the district is entitled to
a greater allotment under Section 42.155 or greater additional
state aid under Section 42.2515 than the allotment or additional
state aid to which the district was entitled under Section 42.155 or
42.2515, as applicable, for the school year on which the district's
entitlement under Subsection (b) is based, the district's
entitlement under Subsection (b) is increased by an amount equal to
the difference between the amount to which the district is entitled
under Section 42.155 or 42.2515, as applicable, for that school
year and the amount to which the district was entitled under the
applicable section, as applicable for:
(A) the 2005-2006 school year, if the amount
determined for the district under Subsection (b) is determined
under Subsection (b)(1)(A); or
(B) the 2006-2007 school year, if the amount
determined for the district under Subsection (b) is determined
under Subsection (b)(1)(B) or (C); and
(2) if for any school year the district is not entitled
to an allotment under Section 42.155 or additional state aid under
Section 42.2515 or is entitled to a lesser allotment or less
additional state aid under the applicable section than the
allotment or additional state aid to which the district was
entitled under the applicable section for the school year on which
the district's entitlement under Subsection (b) is based, the
district's entitlement under Subsection (b) is reduced by an amount
equal to the difference between the amount to which the district was
entitled under Section 42.155 or 42.2515, as applicable, for the
2005-2006 or 2006-2007 school year, as appropriate based on whether
the district's entitlement under Subsection (b) is determined under
Subsection (b)(1)(A), (B), or (C), and the amount to which the
district is entitled under the applicable section for the current
school year.