The Senate rejected
the House amendments to HB 1999, and requested a committee of conference. This is the grade-the-school A-F bill.
The big news of
the day was the conference report on HB 2313, the transportation bill. I am going to restrict coverage to the narrow
issue of the impact of the conference report on the General Fund (GF). Thirty percent of the General Fund now goes
to public education, so any "take" from the GF for transportation is
of great concern.
What is the
impact on the GF? The answer is complex,
as the bill giveth, and the bill taketh away.
The take from
the GF over 5 years (2014 to 2018) is 699.1 million. About $209.2 million of this would go to
public education.
The bill
dedicates an additional 1/8th of the existing general sales tax for
education. This equals $578.3 million
over 5 years.
If the
Marketplace Equity Act (MEA) passes on the Federal level, an additional $344.5
million is earmarked for public education.
My understanding is that this is a huge IF.
If the MEA does
not pass shortly, public education loses out on $59.3 million in 2014 and $67.3
million in 2015.
If MEA does not
pass by January 1, 2015, the gas tax will be raised and the GF diversion to
transportation is reduced to $40 to $70 million.
It is going to be interesting to see if this bill, which does increase taxes, will pass the House. I suspect that it will pass the Senate. The bill will raise $880 million a year for transportation when fully implemented in 2018.
The Senate took
of SB 1374, Senator Alexander's constitutional alternative to SB 1324, which
addresses underperforming schools, passed the Senate on a 32-7 vote.
The House passed
SB 1324, the state takeover bill, 64-34, but remember from yesterday’s post,
the Senate put “the clause” on the bill.
If it is not funded in the final budget, it will not go into effect.
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