Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Fiscal Summary STATE GOVERNMENTEXPENDITURESGeneral FundFY27-28$83,703,300FY28-29 & Subsequent Years>$83,761,000 LOCAL GOVERNMENTREVENUE MandatoryFY27-28$83,703,300FY28-29 & Subsequent Years>$83,761,000 OTHER FISCAL IMPACT Expanding the definition of "economically disadvantaged" to include students enrolled on TennCare will increase the required local contributions by $35,089,400 in FY27-28; and in excess of $35,089,400 in FY28-29 and subsequent years. Local education agencies that contribute in excess of the required local match requirements may already be providing sufficient funding to cover the proposed increases to the local match requirements. Therefore, those LEAs would not be required to increase local funding amounts. Increasing the number of students identified as economically disadvantaged may shift more students from the 10 percent outcomes bonus to the 20 percent outcomes bonus; however, because outcomes funding is capped at $80,000,000 annually, any amount above the appropriation would be pro-rated. The proposed legislation may increase schools’ poverty percentages under DOE’s Title I rank-order process and cause additional schools to meet the 40 percent threshold for the 5 percent concentrated poverty weight, which may increase formula-generated funding. Article II, Section 24 of the Tennessee Constitution provides that: no law of general application shall impose increased expenditure requirements on cities or counties unless the General Assembly shall provide that the state share in the cost. Bill Summary Present establishes the Tennessee investment in student achievement formula (TISA) as the system for funding education for K-12 public schools. As part of TISA, each student generates a funding allocation that includes (i) a base funding amount, (ii) weighted allocations for which the individual student sat
