88S30250 ANG-D
	By: Hinojosa	H.B. No. 177

Statutes affected:
Introduced: Education Code 48.051, Education Code 48.102, Education Code 48.115 (Education Code 48)

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a bonus payment for certain public school employees and
	to the public school finance system.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 21.4023 to read as follows:
	Sec. 21.4023.  BONUS PAYMENT FOR 2023-2024 SCHOOL YEAR.  (a)
	For the 2023-2024 school year, a school district shall provide to
	each classroom teacher, full-time librarian, full-time school
	counselor certified under Subchapter B, or full-time school nurse
	employed by the district a one-time bonus payment of $15,000 in
	addition to the employee's compensation for the 2023-2024 school
	year to be paid to the employee at the end of the 2023-2024 school
	year.
	(b)  A bonus payment provided to a classroom teacher under
	this section is not considered in determining whether a school
	district is paying the teacher the minimum monthly salary under
	Section 21.402.
	(c)  This section expires September 1, 2024.
	SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 22.008 to read as follows:
	Sec. 22.008.  BONUS PAYMENT FOR 2023-2024 SCHOOL YEAR FOR
	SUPPORT STAFF.  (a)  For the 2023-2024 school year, a school
	district shall provide to each employee, other than an
	administrator or an employee subject to the minimum salary schedule
	under Section 21.402, who is compensated less than $100,000 per
	year in salary or wages a one-time bonus payment of $5,500 in
	addition to the employee's compensation for the 2023-2024 school
	year to be paid to the employee at the end of the 2023-2024 school
	year.
	(b)  This section expires September 1, 2024.
	SECTION 3.  Effective September 1, 2024, Section 48.051,
	Education Code, is amended by amending Subsections (a) and (c) and
	adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) to read as follows:
	(a)  Subject to adjustment under Subsection (a-1), 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 $8,947 [$6,160] or the amount that results
	from the following formula:
	A = $8,947 [$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.
	(a-1)  Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, the basic
	allotment provided to a district under Subsection (a) or (b) is
	adjusted annually to increase the allotment by 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.
	(a-2)  If the inflation rate for a school year is less than
	zero, the inflation rate to be used for purposes of Subsection (a-1)
	is zero.
	(c)  During any school year for which the maximum amount of
	the basic allotment provided under Subsection (a) or (b) is greater
	than the maximum amount provided for the preceding school year, a
	school district must use at least 40 [30] percent of the amount, if
	the amount is greater than zero, that equals the product of the
	average daily attendance of the district multiplied by the amount
	of the difference between the district's funding under this chapter
	per student in average daily attendance for the current school year
	and the preceding school year to provide compensation increases to
	full-time district employees other than administrators as follows:
	(1)  75 percent must be used to increase the
	compensation paid to classroom teachers, full-time librarians,
	full-time school counselors certified under Subchapter B, Chapter
	21, and full-time school nurses, prioritizing differentiated
	compensation for classroom teachers with more than five years of
	experience; and