86R10632 MEW-F
 
  By: Goodwin H.B. No. 2139
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to an annual adjustment to the basic allotment under the
  Foundation School Program to reflect inflation.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 42.101, Education Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-3) to read as
  follows:
         (a)  Subject to adjustment under Subsection (a-3), 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 $4,765 or the amount that results from the
  following formula:
  A = $4,765 X (DCR/MCR)
  where:
         "A" is the allotment to which a district is entitled;
         "DCR" is the district's compressed tax rate, which is the
  product of the state compression percentage, as determined under
  Section 42.2516, multiplied by the maintenance and operations tax
  rate adopted by the district for the 2005 tax year; and
         "MCR" is the state maximum compressed tax rate, which is the
  product of the state compression percentage, as determined under
  Section 42.2516, multiplied by $1.50.
         (a-3)  Beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, the basic
  allotment provided to a district under Subsection (a) or (b) is
  adjusted annually to increase the allotment by the greater of:
               (1)  one percent of the amount of the allotment for the
  preceding school year; or
               (2)  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.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.