This amendment creates new statutory sections for K-12 school finance, modifies the education resource block grant model, establishes an instructional reserve account and dual enrollment reimbursement program, mandates school district participation in state employee health insurance, and makes various appropriations and technical adjustments.
- Adds language to create a new grant program for post-secondary education enrollment options program. (Page 1, lines 1-3)
- Deletes a line reference and modifies statutory citations to include new sections 21-13-341 and 21-13-342. (Page 1, lines 5-10)
- Changes the elective/specialist teacher FTE calculation for high school grade bands from twenty percent (20%) to thirty-three and one-third percent (33 1/3%) of core teachers. (Page 5, lines 12-14)
- Adds a minimum teacher FTE provision ensuring each school receives at least one (1.0) FTE, and establishes a minimum teacher FTE guarantee for K-12 school districts. (Page 8, lines 2-30)
- Corrects a reference from 'Medicaid' to 'Medicare' in employer-paid payroll costs. (Page 10, line 32)
- Removes phase-in language for elementary school counselors and pupil support positions, making them effective school year 2027-2028. (Page 10, lines 21-36 and Page 11, lines 8-21)
- Deletes provisions regarding nurse FTE phase-in language for school year 2027-2028. (Page 12, lines 1-14)
- Updates the salary for nurses from $70,560.00 to $75,863.00. (Page 36, lines 3-16)
- Extends health insurance study and related provisions from school year 2027 to 2028-2029. (Page 38, lines 17-27)
- Removes prior sections and creates two new statutes: section 21-13-341 establishing an instructional reserve account and section 21-13-342 establishing a dual enrollment district reimbursement program. (Page 44, lines 9-14 and Page 47, after line 4)
- Modifies ADM calculation to use two (2) immediately preceding school years instead of three (3) years for determining average daily membership. (Page 56, lines 9-25)
- Revises health insurance computation to use actual participation data rather than statewide averages for determining the amount allocated for health insurance within the education resource block grant model. (Page 58, after line 3)
- Changes references from 2026-2027 to 2027-2028 and 2028-2029 for various effective dates throughout the model. (Page 60, lines 22-23 and multiple other pages)
- Revises provisions regarding model monitoring and cost-based adjustments, changing frequency from annual to not less than one time every two years. (Page 60, lines 22-23 and Page 62, lines 8-16)
- Modifies teacher salary schedule requirements to ensure teacher salaries equal the greater of average teacher salary or 105% of prior year salary for school years 2026-2027 through 2028-2029. (Page 97, after line 15)
- Increases the school foundation program appropriation from $216,500,000 to $229,500,000. (Page 99, lines 14-16)
- Appropriates $20,000,000 for the dual enrollment district reimbursement program with specified spending limits per school year. (Page 99, after line 21)
- Establishes requirements for a school district employee health insurance cost study to be conducted by the department of administration and information, with appropriation of $150,000 and report due by March 1, 2027. (Page 101, after line 22)
- Appropriates up to $88,742,176 from the school foundation program reserve account to fund school district participation in the state employees' and officials' group insurance plan. (Page 102, lines 12-10)
- Deletes sections 103 and 104 entirely, removing certain prior appropriations and provisions. (Pages 103-104)
- Changes the effective date for school district participation in state employee health insurance from July 1, 2027 to July 1, 2028. (Page 102, lines 3-5 and Page 105, line 6)
- Updates section references for effective date provisions. (Page 105, lines 17-18)
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