Item 1 #3s- This amendment provides $22,048 each year from the general fund for the costs of the Commission on Artificial Intelligence.
Item 1 #6s- This amendment provides $12,090 GF each year to support Senate Bill 389, which re-establishes the Virginia Autism Advisory Council. The membership is higher than on the previous Council before it expired.
Item 22 #1s- This amendment provides $100,000 the first year from the general fund to support a review of Virginia's special education dispute resolution system. Funds allocated in the first year may be carried over to the second year to support this initiative.
Item 116 #1s- This amendment updates language included in the introduced budget related to a stakeholder work group on teacher compensation.
Item 117 #1s- This amendment redirects $7.2 million GF each year mental health and telehealth services in the introduced budget to other education initiatives.
Item 117 #3s- This amendment provides $300,000 GF each year and two positions to support the Joint Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education Funding through increased staffing and contracted services.
Item 117 #5s- This amendment restores $1.0 million GF the first year and $1.9 million GF the second year to the Office of School Quality and requires certain reporting requirements.
Item 125 #1s- This amendment provides $198.6 million GF the first year and $202.0 million GF the second year to remove the support position cap used in Basic Aid funding. The removal of the support cap requires the amount of support positions to be funded based on the linear weighted average methodology for positions per pupil and funded salaries within Basic Aid.
Item 125 #2s- This amendment provides $142.7 million GF the first year and $259.2 million GF the second year for a 3% salary increase each year for teachers and instructional positions.
Item 125 #3s- This amendment provides $121.3 million the first year and $121.8 million the second year from the general fund to restore and reforecast the general fund payments provided in lieu of the K-12 dedicated sales tax on grocery and personal hygiene products that would have been collected had the tax not been eliminated effective January 1, 2023. The amount of these general fund payments is updated to $272.4 million the first year and $273.5 million in the second year. These payments reduce the state share of basic aid by $151.1 million the first year and $151.7 million the second year.
Item 125 #4s- This amendment provides $12.8 million GF the first year and $13.9 million GF the second year to increase the ratio for English language learners from 20 to 22 per 1,000 students.
Item 125 #5s- This amendment provides $88.0 million GF and $25.0 million NGF from 2024 Lottery proceeds the first year and $112.6 million GF the second year to increase the maximum percentage for the At-Risk Add On from 36.0 to 45.2 percent.
Item 125 #6s- This amendment provides $67.5 million GF the first year and $102.3 million GF the second year in additional revenue sources.
Item 125 #15s- This amendment provides $62.2 million GF the first year and $155.8 million GF the second year to account for sales tax base expansion.
Item 125 #18s- This amendment provides $3.2 million GF the first year and $3.6 million GF the second year to increase the per meal reimbursement amount from $0.22 to $0.30 for the state funded incentive program to maximize federal school nutrition revenues and increase participation in the school breakfast program.
Item 125 #22s- This amendment authorizes the Department of Education to offer school construction loans from the Literary Fund.
Item 3-1.01 #1s- This amendment transfers estimated tax revenue dedicated to the PreK-12 Priority Fund to the general fund for the purpose of funding public education initiatives that support student needs.
Item 3-5.03 #1s- This amendment increases the K-12 sales tax transfer for appropriation in Direct Aid from the sale tax base expansion in Part 4.
