Amend HJR 2 (house committee report) as follows:

(1)  On page 7, line 15, between "amounts;" and "to", insert "to provide supplemental payments to full-time classroom teachers in school districts;".

(2)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the resolution and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the resolution appropriately:

SECTION ____.  Article VII, Texas Constitution, is amended by adding Section 21 to read as follows:

Sec. 21.  (a)  A school district is entitled to state funding for the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years for each full-time classroom teacher employed by the district in the applicable school year as follows:

(1)  if the district has 20,000 or more students enrolled in the preceding school year, $2,000 per full-time classroom teacher; and

(2)  if the district has fewer than 20,000 students enrolled in the preceding school year, $6,000 per full-time classroom teacher.

(b)  A school district shall use money received under this section to provide a supplemental payment to each full-time classroom teacher in the district for the applicable school year in the amount received per full-time classroom teacher under Subsection (a) of this section.

(c)  For each school year for which this section provides for supplemental payments for full-time classroom teachers, there is appropriated from the general revenue fund to the Texas Education Agency the amount necessary to fund the supplemental payments provided by this section. The agency shall distribute the money to school districts in the amount required to fund the supplemental payments.