HB 4048 Summary

• Appropriates $13.76 billion from state school aid fund, $50.96 million from general fund, and federal COVID-19 relief funds totaling approximately $1.78 billion (GEER and ESSER grants) for fiscal year 2020-2021 school funding

• Allocates $1.49 billion in ESSER funds and $136 million in state aid to districts for educational services, with $650 million distributed proportionally based on Title I funding and $840.68 million conditioned on enactment of HB 4049

• Establishes $152.4 million federal and $10 million state funding for COVID-19 remediation services including summer programs, credit recovery programs, and before/after-school programs for eligible students at $550 per pupil in summer/recovery programs

• Creates $21.3 million program to provide $1,000 payments to eligible teachers and $250 to eligible support staff in districts offering COVID-19 remediation services

• Allocates $55.6 million for licensed behavioral health providers in schools, $5 million competitive grant program for community-based before/after-school programming, and $12.7 million for benchmark assessment systems implementation in grades K-8