bill raises basic per-student funding to $7,075

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89R2801 MEW-D

By: Howard
H.B. No. 595

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the basic allotment and guaranteed yield under the

Foundation School Program, including an adjustment in those amounts

to reflect inflation.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 48.051, Education Code, is amended by

amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) 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 $7,075 [ $6,160 ] or the amount that results

from the following formula:

A = $7,075 [ $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 2026-2027 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.

SECTION 2. 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 the maximum amount of the

basic allotment provided under Section 48˙.051 for the applicable

school year [ 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 the maximum amount of the basic allotment provided

under Section 48˙.051 for the applicable school year [ $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).

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.