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From the ECS State Policy Database 2005 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2005. 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--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--District Finance--Equity Finance--Facilities HI Signed into law 07/2005 P-12 Facilities Funding and Oversight S.B. 1660 Transfers the management of the state educational facilities improvement special fund and capital improvement and repair and maintenance programs of school facilities to the department of education. Establishes the educational design and construction project a... More... NH Signed into law 07/2005 P-12 School building aid grants S.B. 38 This bill provides that a receiving district situated in this state providing an education to pupils from one or more sending districts situated in this state under a contract entered into pursuant to RSA 194:21-a or RSA 194:22, shall be eligible, under certai... More... CO Signed into law 06/2005 Postsec. College Opportunity Fund S.B. 132 Specifies that a student who is eligible to receive a stipend may receive a stipend for graduate level courses that apply toward the student's undergraduate degree. Requires the Colorado student loan program to reduce the amount of the stipend per credit hour ... More... TX Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Repeals Public Schools Facilities Funding Act H.B. 1106 Repeals the Public School Facilities Funding Act. From analysis: School Facilities Act was established in 1989 to be administered by the Bond Review Board. The board was authorized to issue bonds and place the proceeds in the public school facilities fund. T... More... TX Vetoed 06/2005 P-12 Postsec. Community College Procurement H.B. 2525 From bill analysis: Consolidates alternate project delivery processes into a single chapter of the Government Code. This is similar to the legal approach to procurement of professional services, under which the same process applies to all governmental entitie... More... NH Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 School building aid H.B. 71 This bill makes an appropriation of $2,730,411 to the department of education for the purpose of fully funding all school building aid projects approved in the 2005 fiscal year http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2005/HB0071.html... More... AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Academic Oversight Committee S.B. 591 Creates the Academic Facilities Oversight Committee and the advisory committee on public school academic facilities. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/SB591.pdf... More... AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Public School Facilities Program Act S.B. 593 Establishes the Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program Act. Requires the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation to develop a comprehensive Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program that includes an academic facili... More... AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Design Build Construction S.B. 1093 Defines "design-build," "design-builder" and "design-build contract." Permits any school district to use design-build construction as a project delivery method for the building, altering, repairing, improving, maintaining, or demolishing of any structure, or a... More... AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 School Buildings and Facilities H.B. 1448 Amends Arkansas code 6-20-402. Allows a district to terminate a long-term lease agreement at the end of any fiscal year for the district. Requires all school buildings or related facilities to comply with the requirements of the Arkansas School Facility Manual... More... AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Public School Academic Facilities Funding H.B. 2508 This subchapter is known as and may be cited as the "Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Funding Act." Determines the value of total assesed valuation of taxable real, personal and utility property in the school district. Establishes the the Academic F... More... AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Energy Savings Contracts S.B. 1095 Concerns energy savings contracts for school districts. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb1095.pdf... More... AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 School Buildings in Consolidated School Districts H.B. 2936 Establishes procedures for the preservation, sale and/or disposal of school buildings in school districts that have been consolidated. Allows a district that determines any real estate it owns or controlls is not required for the district's present or anticipa... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 School Facilities Board H.B. 2287 Reduces the length of the comprehensive plan for the proposed use of Building Renewal Fund monies from five years to three years. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2287... More... KS Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 P-12 Funding Formulas, Bonds, Tax Levies and Mill Rates H.B. 2247 (section 19-29) Establishes procedures for local tax levies. Establishes in every district a fund called the teacher salary enhancement fund. Creates a formula for determining a district's cost of living weighting. Authorizes any balance remaining in a district's vocational e... More... MD Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Public School Facilities S.B. 766 Repeals a provision of law requiring the transfer of public school facilities and property from the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners; repeals a requirement that prohibits the State from funding capital imp... More... NM Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Public School Finance H.B. 1091 Relates to public school finance; removes the requirement that a portion of local and federal revenue be used for capital outlay; provides for the calculation of MEM on the eightieth and one hundred twentieth days. Removes the requirement that the school dist... More... AR Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Education Service Cooperatives H.B. 1357 An act to allow education service cooperatives to purchase or construct buildings as may be required to provide authorized programs and services and to provide for distribution of assets upon dissolution. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public... More... AR Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Public School Facilities and Transportation S.B. 590 Revises the duties and responsibilities of the division of public school academic facilities and transportation and creates the commission on public school academic facilities and transportation. Provides that the enumerated duties of the Division of Public ... More... AR Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Public-Public Partnerships S.B. 858 Defines "public-public partnership" as a contractual agreement between a school district and another governmental agency, political subdivision, or institution of higher education to meet a clearly defined need for facilities, infrastructure, or goods and serv... More... AZ Vetoed 03/2005 P-12 School Facilities Board S.B. 1394 Amends provisions relating to the school facilities board. Bars the school facilities board from entering into lease-to-own transactions as of June 30, 2005; provides exception. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1394... More... KY Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 School Facility Construction Commission (SFCC) Review H.B. 267 (Facility Component) Directs the Office of Education Accountability to conduct a review of the SFCC's ability to provide local school districts with necessary debt service assistance to maintain a facility program that will be conducive to a positive learning environment. ... More... OK Signed into law 03/2005 Postsec. Higher Education Promise of Excellence Act H.B. 1191 Enacts the Higher Education Promise of Excellence Act of 2005; authorizes the issuance of certain obligations to the Regents for Higher Education, the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, the Board of Regents for the Agricultural and Mechanical coll... More... UT To governor 03/2005 P-12 Enrollment Growth Program Amendments H.B. 124 This bill modifies the funding formula for a program that provides money to school districts for school building construction. This bill: defines terms, including "yield per ADM"; removes the requirement that a school district be a recipient of monies distribu... More... WY Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 School Facilities H.B. 269 Specifies district major maintenance payment expenditures from the required separate account. Account expenditures may include the expenses of district personnel performing work described under paragraph (a)(iii) of this section if approved by the commission a... More... WY Signed into law 02/2005 P-12 Capital Construction S.F. 29 Relates to school capital construction program; modifies the date by which state funding is provided for major facilities maintenance/replacement and makes payments based upon square footage computations computed on September 1 of the prior school year. http:... More... NY Pocket Veto by GOVERNOR. 01/2005 P-12 School Cafeteria Renovations S.B. 7474 Relates to the renovation of cafeterias in school districts located in cities with a population of one million or more.... More... 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