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From the ECS State Policy Database
2001 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2001. This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the topic of interest. To view all, press the button located at the top labeled "Expand All."

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MEApproved by voters 11/2001P-12Private and Special Law No. 40., (LD 1707) Authorizes a bond issue to capitalize the School Revolving Renovation Fund for repairs and improvements in public school facilities to address health, safety and compliance deficiencies, general renovation needs and learning space upgrades.

Approved by voters November 2001.
Title: S.B. 549/ Bond Issue Question 4
Source: Maine Secretary of State Web site

CASigned into law 08/2001P-12Chapter No.194, Defines major maintenance for purposes of the Greene Act, requires commencing on a certain date, any school district applying for funding pursuant to the Greene Act to annually review the plan, update it as needed, and certify that it is in compliance with the plan.
Title: A.B. 1558
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ORSigned into law 07/2001P-12Requires school facility plan for high growth school district to cover a period of at least 5 years; expands analyses that must be included in plan; requires school district to cooperate with the city or county, or both, to identify land for school facilities if district determines there is an inadequated supply of suitable land.
Title: H.B. 3045
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ORSigned into law 07/2001P-12
Postsec.
Community College
Requires inventory and rehabilitation of certain public school, community college and public university buildings that would pose threat to occupant safety in event of earthquake.
Title: S.B. 14
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

AKSigned into law 06/2001P-12
Postsec.
Relates to funding and use of the Tobacco Use Education and Cessation Fund; Relates to finance of construction and major maintenance of public school facilities; authorizes the commissioner of revenue to sell the right to receive a portion of the anticipated revenue from a tobacco settlement to the Northern Tobacco Securitization Corporation; authorizes the issuance of bonds by the Corporation with proceeds to finance public schools and maintenance for the University of Alaska.
Title: H.B. 234
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

MNVetoed 06/2001P-12Relates to capital improvements; appropriates funds for capital improvement, flood hazard mitigation grants, acquisition of easements and to implement conservation practices on frequently flooded croplands, the Closed Landfill Cleanup Program, the Maximum Effort School Loan Fund, and economic development purposes; authorizes the issuance of bonds.
Title: H.B. 8A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ORSigned into law 06/2001P-12Requires local government to amend urban growth boundary if analysis finds actual housing types and densities insufficient for next 20 years; requires inclusion of certain school facilities, parks and open spaces.
Title: H.B. 2976
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

SCSigned into law 06/2001Postsec.Authorizes the Board of Trustees of State University and other institutions of higher education to enter into a ground lease agreement with a private entity for providing all services necessary to the creation and operation of an on-campus student housing facility including, financing, designing, constructing, managing, operating, maintaining and related services; provides for the terms and conditions of this ground lease agreement including approval by the Budget and Control Board.
Title: S.B. 557
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

COSigned into law 05/2001P-12Creates the Information Technology Education Grant Program; provides money to school districts and charter schools to use in integrating information technology education into secondary curriculum in public schools; creates a Information Technology Fund to fund such grants.
Title: H.B. 1163
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

COSigned into law 05/2001P-12Concerns the capital construction needs of charter schools; provides that a portion of the proceeds from approved school district bond measures on or after a certain shall go to charter schools in amount determined by a proportioned ratio of the charter school's pupil enrollment in the grades that are served by one or more primarily situated noncharter public schools that will be constructed or maintained by the bond proceeds.
Title: S.B. 237
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

FLSigned into law 05/2001Postsec.2001-79., Creates Higher Educational Facilities Financing Act; creates the Higher Educational Facilities Financing Authority; provides criteria for and covenants relating to authorization of issuance of notes and revenue bonds not obligating the full faith and credit of the authority, any municipality, the state, or any political subdivision; providing for loans from revenue bonds to participating institutions; providing for trust funds and remedies of bondholders.
Title: S.B. 302
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

HISigned into law 05/2001P-12Funds backlog of repair and maintenance for public school facilities through general obligation; establishes funding formula for on-going preventive repair and maintenance.
Title: S.B. 1577
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

HISigned into law 05/2001P-12Establishes the school repair and maintenance trust fund as a separate fund of Hawaii 3R's, a nonprofit corporation, for coordination of private and federal efforts to repair and maintain public schools; establishes a tax credit and procurement procedures for state contracts.
Title: S.B. 493
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

MESigned into law 05/2001Postsec.(LD 147) Prohibits the Maine State Commission for Higher Education Facilities from accepting funds from any source that would place conditions or restrictions on the use of funds in such a way as to interfere with or otherwise restrict the academic freedoms of state colleges and universities.
Title: H.B. 136
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ORSigned into law 05/2001P-12Authorizes Health, Housing, Educational and Cultural Facilities Authority to finance projects for public and nonprofit schools providing pre-kindergarten through grade 12 education.
Title: H.B. 3207
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

FLSigned into law 04/2001P-12Authorizes school districts to qualify construction projects for funding under Special Facility Construction Account by using school capital outlay surtax in lieu of maximum millage against their nonexempt assessed property value; specifies funding eligibility of certain projects.
Title: H.B. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

GASigned into law 04/2001P-12Act No. 212., Provides supplementary appropriations for public school capital outlay for the state fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, in addition to the appropriation made by the General Appropriations Act and any other appropriations.
Title: H.B. 139
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

MDSigned into law 04/2001P-12Authorizes the creation of a State Debt to be used as a grant to the Interagency Committee on School Construction for the allocation to the eligible school system under the Aging School Program for the repair, renovation, and capital improvements of qualified zoned academies.
Title: S.B. 288
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

MDSigned by Governor 04/2001Postsec.Increasing to $875,000,000, the bonding authority for the University System of Maryland; approving certain projects for the acquisition, development, and improvement of certain academic facilities for the University System of Maryland; and approving the issuance of bonds by the University System of Maryland for financing the projects.
Title: H.B. 1263
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

MESigned into law 04/2001P-12Public Law No. 38., 39 (LD 346) Clarifies that communities that are part of a school administrative district or other single or multicommunity school district may deposit the proceeds of school impact fees in a trust fund to be used to pay their proportionate share of anticipate school capital costs.
Title: H.B. 268
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

NMVetoed 04/2001P-12Provides criteria and procedures for funding public school capital outlay projects for public school buildings; authorizes the issuance of short term severance tax bonds, supplemental severance tax bonds and statewide public school general obligation bonds. Creates a deficiencies correction unit as part of the public school capital outlay council. Creates the public school capital outlay task force.
Title: S.B. 167
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

NMSigned into law 04/2001P-12Upon a finding of need, the boards of every school district in a county that is either located wholly within the exterior boundaries of the county or that has a student membership no more than ten percent of whom reside outside the exterior boundaries of the county may enter into a joint agreement to submit a resolution to the governing body of the county requiring the governing body to impose a county education gross receipts tax and to issue county education gross receipts tax revenue bonds for funding public school capital projects and, if applicable, off-campus instruction program capital projects. The boards must agree to provide at least one-fourth of the bond proceeds for capital projects for an off-campus instruction program, if one of the school districts in the county has established such a program. The remaining revenues shall be distributed proportionately to each school district for public school capital outlay projects based on the ratio that the population of each school district, according to the 2000 federal decennial census, bears to the population of all of the school districts in the county who are parties to the agreement.
Title: S.B. 516
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

ARSigned into law 03/2001Postsec.Amends code sections pertaining to Arkansas State Building Services review and approval of higher education institution capital improvements.
Title: S.B. 512
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ARSigned into law 03/2001P-12Authorizes an increase in school district bond debt to 35% of the assessed value of real and personal property in the district in cases of unexpected, unforeseen or extreme hardship.
Title: H.B. 2240
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ARSigned into law 03/2001P-12Directs the establishment of regulations regarding self-construction projects by public educational entities.
Title: S.B. 818
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

AZSigned into law 03/2001P-12Relates to the School Facilities Board; provides for sale of school property; provides for authorization to issue bonds for school construction; provides for repairs to school buildings.
Title: S.B. 1181
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

KYSigned into law 03/2001P-12Relates to school facilities construction; provides that "available local revenue" for school building construction shall no longer include the balance of the general fund budget above 10 percent and shall now include the bonding potential of capital outlay and building funds.
Title: H.B. 173
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

NJSigned into law 03/2001P-12Provides school district budget cap adjustment for expenses related to opening of new school facility during the budget year; states the district's budget may also be adjusted for increases in enrollment, certain capitol outlay expenditures for courtesy busing services and per pupil education costs in excess of a set amount; provides an additional adjustment for expenditures associated with opening a new school facility.
Title: A.B. 3076
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

UTSigned into law 03/2001P-12Modifies provisions relating to the state system of public education in the funding of the Minimum School Program. This act provides a ceiling for the state contribution of the operation and maintenance portion of the Minimum School Program Act not to exceed $1,586,482,794. Establishes the value of the weighted pupil unit at $2,132, establishes block grants and distribution formulas, and provides a $28,358,000 appropriation for school building aid. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2002/bills/sbillenr/sb0003.htm
Title: H.B. 3, S.B. 3
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us

WYSigned into law 03/2001P-12Relates to school capital construction; imposes a condition on state building adequacy standards.
Title: H.B. 275
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

WYSigned into law 03/2001P-12Relates to major building and facility repair and replacement payments; modifies major maintenance payment computations; imposes major maintenance payment expenditure reporting requirements upon districts; requires the State superintendent to report information and to review the effect of payment expenditures on district building needs.
Title: H.B. 5
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

SDSigned into law 02/2001P-12Adjusts the use of the capital outlay fund; provides that it may also be used for installment or lease-purchase payments for the purchase of public school real property, plant or equipment, which have a contracted terminal date not exceeding twenty years.
Title: H.B. 1006
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

SDVeto overridden 02/2001P-12Authorizes the funding of textbooks through the school capital outlay fund.
Title: H.B. 1196
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

WYSigned into law 02/2001P-12Relates to school capital construction; establishes a select committee on capital construction; provides an appropriation.
Title: S.B. 167
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

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