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From the ECS State Policy Database 2004 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2004. 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." Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. 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Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education Curriculum--International Education Curriculum--Language Arts Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling Curriculum--Mathematics Curriculum--Multicultural Curriculum--Physical Education Curriculum--Science Curriculum--Sex Education Curriculum--Social Studies/History Data-Driven Improvement Demographics--Enrollments Desegregation Economic/Workforce Development Education Research Equity Finance Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost Finance--Aid to Private Schools Finance--Bonds Finance--District Finance--Equity Finance--Facilities FL Signed into law 12/2004 P-12 Educational Facilities Restoration H.B. 11A Creates the Educational Facilities Hurricane Restoration Cash Flow Loan Program to assist district school boards in making timely payments i... More... MI Signed into law 12/2004 P-12 Used Modular Classroom Standards S.B. 677 Requires the establishment of rules for the standards and requirements for the relocation and reuse of used modular classroom; provides the ... More... UT Adopted 12/2004 P-12 State School Building Program R277-451 Amends rules concerning the State School Building Program. Provides definition for the 'Enrollment Growth Program.' Adds procedures for scho... More... IL Signed into law 10/2004 P-12 School District Tax Levy H.B. 759 Amends the School Code. Provides that a community unit school district may issue bonds up to a specified amount if the district has a specif... More... CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 School Facilities: Funding S.B. 628 Permits the calculation of eligibility for new construction funding if the existing school building capacity in any high school attendance a... More... CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 School Facilities: Needs Assessment: Emergency Repairs S.B. 6 Establishes the School Facilities Needs Assessment Grant Program, to be administered by the State Allocation Board, for the purpose of award... More... CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 School Facilities A.B. 736 Requires the State Allocation Board to adopt regulations to implement design standards for school facilities in accordance with guidelines e... More... CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 School Facilities: Sprinkler Systems A.B. 2343 Requires an automatic sprinkler system to be installed in facilities modernized pursuant to the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act under ... More... CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 School Facilities: New Construction and Modernization A.B. 1465 Amends the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act relating to funding for construction of small high schools. Provides for adjustments of new... More... CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 School Facilities: Joint-Use Projects A.B. 2446 Amends the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act. Deletes teacher education facilities as eligible joint-use facilities. Includes parks and ... More... CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 School Facilities: Regional Occupational Centers A.B. 2035 Deems regional occupational centers to be school districts for school modernization funding purposes of the Leroy F. Greene School Facilitie... More... CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 School Facilities: Modernization A.B. 1126 Requires the State Allocation Board to adjust for inflation the calculation used to determine the total funding eligibility of a school dist... More... CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Critically Overcrowded School Facilities A.B. 2950 Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school distric... More... CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Selling or Leasing of Real Estate by a School District A.B. 2838 Requires the offer to sell or lease real estate with an option to purchase by a school district to be provided in writing to other specified... More... CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 School Facilities: Lease-Leaseback Contracts A.B. 1486 Establishes a competitive proposal process for leases that provide for the construction of a building or buildings for the use of the school... More... CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Reimbursement for a new Science Facility A.B. 2855 (multiple provisions) SEC. 17: Existing law provides that no pupil shall receive a diploma of graduation from high school who, while in grades 9 to 12, inclusive,... More... CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Facilities Inspection System S.B. 550 (multiple provisions) Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene State School Building Lease-Purchase Law of 1976, the Leroy F. Greene State School Building Lease-Purchase... More... CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 School Accountability Report Cards S.B. 550 (multiple provisions) SEC. 10: Requires the school accountability report card to include information regarding the availability of sufficient textbooks and other ... More... CA Vetoed 08/2004 P-12 School Facilities: Seismic Safety Upgrades A.B. 1790 Makes certain findings and declarations related to seismic safety upgrades and would state the intent of the Legislature to consider the dev... More... IL Signed into law 08/2004 Postsec. Community College Fire Sprinkler Dormitory Act H.B. 4361 Creates the Fire Sprinkler Dormitory Act. The installation of fire sprinklers is required in all dormitories by 2013, unless excepted. Provi... More... CA Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 School Facility Maintenance Costs S.B. 409 Reduces, for the 2004-05 fiscal year only, the amount required to be deposited by a school district into its restricted account to 2% of the... More... HI Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 School Repairs and Maintenance H.B. 1929 Relates to school repair and maintenance and the Hawaii 3R's program; establishes a coordinator position to coordinate the public and privat... More... IL Veto overridden by both houses of legislature 07/2004 P-12 Condemned School Repair Financing H.B. 753 Amends the Property Tax Code and the School Code. Allows a school district located in a county subject to the Property Tax Extension Limitat... More... MA Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Postsec. School Building Assistance Program H.B. 4978 Relates to the School Building Assistance Program; provides for grants, investments, trusts and bonds; creates the School Building Authority... More... MA Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 School Building Assistance Program H.B. 4977 Relates to the School Building Assistance Program; provides for the dedicated sales tax revenue amount; creates the School Modernization and... More... CA Rule Adoption 06/2004 P-12 Critically Overcrowded Schools Title 2 CCR 1859.2, 1859.145, 1859.145.1 Amends regulations to update the critically overcrowded schools regulations to clarify the possibility of using use of grants in preliminary... More... CO Partial veto 06/2004 P-12 Capital Construction H.B. 1464 Allows the state department of education to add employees to assist with school capital construction. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/... More... HI Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Postsec. Community College Revenue Bonds for Not-for-Profit Education Facilities S.B. 3086 Relates to special purpose revenue bonds for Island Pacific Academy. The legislature finds and determines that the planning and construction... More... TN To governor 06/2004 P-12 Postsec. Community College Bond Issues S.B. 429 Present law authorizes the state to issue and sell general obligation bonds for any purpose authorized by the general assembly, including th... More... CO Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 School Finance; Enrollment Calculations; Charter School Contracts H.B. 1397 Concerns the financing of public schools; relates to calculations of pupil enrollment; relates to charter school contracts. http://www.leg.s... More... CT Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 School Construction Funding and Graduation Dates S.B. 343 Provides that if a town, whose school district is the priority district with the largest student enrollment, uses federal funds to finance s... More... FL Became law without governor's signature 05/2004 P-12 Postsec. Community College Education Funding H.B. 1867 Relates to education funding; requires school districts to establish certain policies and procedures regarding lottery fund enhancements; pr... More... MD Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Public School Modular Construction H.B. 199 Requires the Board of Public Works to include modular construction as an approved public school construction or capital cost; requires the B... More... MD Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Public School Facilities Act S.B. 787 Authorizes a county to finance the construction or renovation of public school facilities, under specified circumstances, using alternative ... More... MD Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Public School Facilities Act H.B. 1230 Authorizes a county to finance the construction or renovation of public school facilities, under specified circumstances, using alternative ... More... NH Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 School Building Aid Grants S.B. 352 Excludes amounts transferred to capital reserve from the formula for computing school building aid grant amounts. For the purposes of compu... More... VA Signed into law 04/2004 Postsec. VA Higher Educational Institutions Bond S.B. 31 Bond bill; Commonwealth of Virginia Higher Educational Institutions Bond Bill of 2004. Authorizes the issuance of 9 (c) bonds in a principal... More... CA Approved by voters 03/2004 P-12 Postsec. Community College K-20 Facilities Bond Issue Proposition 55 (AB 16) Enacts the Kindergarten - University Public Facilities Bond Act of 2004 for $12.3 million; funds education facilities to relieve overcrowdin... More... CO Signed into law 03/2004 Postsec. Auxiliary Facilities for Higher Education H.B. 1005 Concerns the enterprise status of auxiliary facilities of state institutions of higher education. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.... More... CO Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 School Construction and Renovation Funds H.B. 1055 Concerns the modification of the process used to make matching grants for school district capital construction from the school construction ... More... CT Signed into law 03/2004 Postsec. Authorization of Bonds S.B. 30 Concerns an authorization of bonds of the state for higher education capital improvements and other purposes; implements the Governors budge... More... ID Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Bond Levy Equalization Program H.B. 780 Amends existing law relating to the Bond Levy Equalization Support Program to prohibit utilization of assistance pursuant to the program for... More... NM Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Capital Outlay S.B. 399 Relates to public school capital outlay; authorizes severance tax bonds and supplemental severance tax bonds for public school capital outla... More... NM Partial Veto, November 2004 Ballot 03/2004 P-12 Postsec. Capital Projects H.B. 294 Authorizes the issuance and sale of capital projects general obligation bonds to make capital expenditures for senior citizen facility impro... More... SC GOVERNOR'S veto overridden by SENATE. 03/2004 Postsec. State Bond Funds H.B. 3900 Provides that the proceeds of bonds authorized under the South Carolina Research University Infrastructure Act are appropriated and authoriz... More... UT Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 School Building Legislative Task Force S.B. 154 Creates the school building legislative task force; provides for a final report to the Education Interim Committee.... More... WV Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Growth County Status S.B. 408 Relates to levies by county boards of education and expenditure of taxes collected; allows growth counties to use provisions of the Growth C... More... AR Signed into law 02/2004 P-12 Tax Amnesty Program H.B. 1100 Creates a State Tax Penalty and Interest Amnesty Program for taxpayers who make a voluntary payment of State taxes during the period of July... More... AR Signed into law 02/2004 P-12 Department of Education H.B. 1009 Creates the Division of Public School Accountability and the Arkansas Public Schools Accountability Advisory Council; creates the Division o... More... AR Signed into law 02/2004 P-12 Custodial and Maintenance Care for Schools S.B. 53 Establishes criteria for custodial and maintenance care for school facilities. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/SB5... More... 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