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2023 Session

Budget Amendments - HB1400 (Floor Request)

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Chief Patron: Scott D
Increase FY 2024 Compensation Supplement to 11%

Item 137 #2h

Item 137 #2h

First Year - FY2023 Second Year - FY2024
Education
Direct Aid to Public Education FY2023 $0 FY2024 $217,756,335 GF

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Page 162, line 23, strike "$9,435,669,028" and insert "$9,653,425,363".

Page 164, after line 15, insert:

"Compensation Supplement - Additional 4.0 Percent $0 $217,756,335".

Page 201, line 8, after "e." insert:

1) Out of this appropriation, $217,756,335 the second year from the general fund is provided for the state share of salary increases and related fringe benefit costs for an additional 4.0 percent salary increase effective July 1, 2023, for funded SOQ instructional and support positions, to provide a total 11.0 percent increase in the second year. Sufficient funds are appropriated in this act to finance, on a statewide basis, the state share of up to an additional 4.0 percent salary increase effective July 1, 2023, to school divisions that certify to the Department of Education that an equivalent increase will be provided to instructional and support personnel the second year. The state share of funding provided to a school division in support of this compensation supplement shall be prorated for school divisions that provide less than an additional average 4.0 percent salary increase the second year above the 7.0 percent increase provided in paragraph C.37.a.2; however, to access these funds, a school division must provide at least an average 7.0 percent salary increase the second year.  These funds also provide the state share of an additional 4.0 salary increase the second year for Academic Year Governor's Schools and Regional Alternative Education Programs.

2) Payments in the second year to any school division shall be based on providing the funds needed to continue the first year increase actually provided by the division plus the increase provided by the division in the second year.

3) Notwithstanding paragraph C.37.c, it is the intent that the average instructional and support position salaries are increased in local school divisions throughout the state by at least 5.0 percent the first year, at least an additional 11.0 the second year, resulting in a combined increase of at least 16.55 percent during the biennium.

4) The state funds that the school division is eligible to receive shall be matched by the local government based on the composite index of local ability-to-pay. This local match shall be calculated for funded SOQ instructional and support positions using an effective date of July 1, 2023. Local school divisions shall certify to the Department of Education that funds used as the local match are derived solely from local revenue sources.

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Explanation

(This amendment provides $217.8 million the second year from the general fund to provide an additional 4.0 salary increase, resulting in a 11.0 percent total salary increase in fiscal year 2024. This amendment would support the goal of Virginia reaching the national teacher pay average in the 2023-24 school year.)