This amendment provides $14.6 million the second year from the general fund to increase the Cost of Competing Adjustment (COCA) for support positions in the school divisions in Planning District 8 and certain adjacent divisions specified in the Appropriation Act that are eligible to receive COCA funds. For the nine Planning District 8 school divisions, this action would increase the adjustment factor from 10.6 to 18.0 percent. For the nine adjacent school divisions, this action would increase the adjustment factor from 2.65 to 4.5 percent. This restores and expands funding that was eliminated in Chapter 56, 2020 Special Session I that would have increased the adjustment factors from 10.6 to 16.0 percent and 2.65 to 4.0 percent.