Establishing a school district funding supplement, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions

2 million to make all school district funding supplement payments. The bill specifies that moneys appropriated for school district funding supplement payments that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, shall not revert but shall remain available for expenditure for the purposes designated until the close of the succeeding fiscal year.2 million appropriation that is proportionate to the school district’s budget enrollment as a percentage of the statewide total budget enrollment for the budget year beginning July 1, 2022. Such funds received by a school district under the bill shall be used for the increased cost of employing para-educators, substitute teachers, bus drivers, and administrative and support staff due to worker shortages, and other increased costs incurred by the school district resulting from goods and services price inflation. School district funding supplement payments received by a school district shall be miscellaneous income for purposes of Code chapter 257 and shall not be included in district cost. The bill takes effect upon enactment.