Amend CSSB 9 (house committee report) as follows:

(1)  On page 25, line 6, strike "Subsection (b)" and substitute "Subsections (b) and (c)".

(2)  On page 25, immediately following line 14, insert the following:

(c)  Sections 48.051(a) and 48.202(a-1), Education Code, as amended by this Act, take effect September 1, 2024.

(3)  Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 48.051(a), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  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 $7,160 [$6,160] or the amount that results from the following formula:

A = $7,160 [$6,160] X TR/MCR

where:

"A" is the allotment to which a district is entitled;

"TR" is the district's tier one maintenance and operations tax rate, as provided by Section 45.0032; and

"MCR" is the district's maximum compressed tax rate, as determined under Section 48.2551.

SECTION ____.  Section 48.202(a-1), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a-1)  For purposes of Subsection (a), the dollar amount guaranteed level of state and local funds per weighted student per cent of tax effort ("GL") for a school district is:

(1)  the greater of the amount of district tax revenue per weighted student per cent of tax effort available to a school district at the 96th percentile of wealth per weighted student or the amount that results from multiplying $7,160 [6,160], or the greater amount provided under Section 48.051(b), if applicable, by 0.016, for the first eight cents by which the district's maintenance and operations tax rate exceeds the district's tier one tax rate; and

(2)  subject to Subsection (f), the amount that results from multiplying $7,160 [$6,160], or the greater amount provided under Section 48.051(b), if applicable, by 0.008, for the district's maintenance and operations tax effort that exceeds the amount of tax effort described by Subdivision (1).