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From the ECS State Policy Database
2006 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2006. 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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NVApproved by voters 11/2006P-12Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to require the legislature to fund the operation of the public schools for K-12th grades before any other part of the state budget for the next biennium.
http://www.sos.state.nv.us/nvelection/2004_bq/bq1.htm
Title: Ballot Question # 1
Source: http://www.sos.state.nv.us/

CARejected by voters 07/2006P-12(1189. SA2005RF0126) Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to provide public school funding by imposing a tax on real property that exempts certain senior homeowners, to provide for class size reduction, textbooks, school safety and violence prevention, academic success facility grants, and a data system to evaluate educational programs effectiveness. Provides facility grants exempt districts from current bond measure moneys unless that measure provides for such eligibility.
Title: V. 14 (Prop. 88)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

IASigned into law 06/2006P-12Extends repeal date of Iowa Early Intervention and School Improvement Technology Block Grant Programs to July 2007. (Includes funds for K-3 class size reduction and student achievement in basic skills, especially reading skills.) http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=SF2272
Title: S.B. 2272 - Section 6
Source: coolice.legis.state.ia.us

ILSigned into law 06/2006P-12Allows cooperative high schools to receive some of the same supplementary state aid that new districts receive; relates to multiple agreements. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/94/HB/PDF/09400HB4365lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 4365
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

LASigned into law 06/2006P-12Increases limit on appropriations to Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Board of Regents for administrative costs related to the Quality Education Support Fund. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=406224
Title: H.B. 591
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

KSSigned into law 05/2006P-12Defines "nonproficient pupil" as a student who is not eligible for free lunches and who has scored less than proficient on the state math or reading assessment during school year 2004-2005 and who is enrolled in a district which maintains an approved proficiency assistance plan. Creates a ''nonproficient pupil weighting'' as an addend component assigned to enrollment of districts on the basis of enrollment of nonproficient pupils. Requires that assistance or programs provided to nonproficient pupils be paid from the at-risk education fund.

Requires every local board to annually submit to the state board a report on the at-risk program or assistance provided by the district. Requires such report to include information specifying the number of at-risk pupils and nonproficient pupils served or provided assistance, the type of service provided, the research upon which the district relied in determining that a need for service or assistance existed, the results of providing such service or assistance and any other information required by the state board. Specifies that districts must report such information as specified by the state board in order to achieve uniform reporting of the number of at-risk pupils and nonproficient pupils provided service or assistance by school districts in at-risk programs.

Bill: http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/549.pdf
Conference Committee Report Brief: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2006/CCRB549.pdf
Title: S.B. 549 - Section 3, 9, 15
Source: www.kslegislature.org

TXSigned into law 05/2006P-12Relates to public school finance, property tax relief, public school accountability and programs. Requires school districts to reduce their M&O tax rates in 2006 to 88.67 percent of their 2005 M&O tax rate. School districts would receive "hold harmless" funding of the amount of state revenue necessary to maintain state and local revenue per weighted student equal to either the amount the district would have been entitled for the 2006-07 school year under current law or 2005-2006 revenue per weighted student, including state aid received for property value decline and "recapture" arrangements under Chapter 42. The bill appropriates $2.39 billion to school districts for fiscal 2007 in "hold harmless" funds.

For school districts subject to "recapture" of local property tax revenue under Education Code, ch. 41, M&O tax revenue on tax rates greater than $1.33 per $100 of valuation would not be subject to recapture. School districts that qualify for the "guaranteed yield" would receive the
current allotment of $27.14 per weighted student for every penny of tax effort above their new compressed rate (up to $1.50).

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/data/docmodel/793/billtext/pdf/HB00001F.PDF

Bill Analysis
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/data/hrofr/pdf/ba793/HB0001.PDF
Title: H.B. 1C
Source: Texas Legislature

ARSigned into law 04/2006P-12Addresses issues raised by the state supreme court. Increases foundation funding provided by the state.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2006S1/public/SB27.pdf
Title: S.B. 27A
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/

COSigned into law 04/2006P-12Concerns the financing of public schools; increases the statewide base per pupil funding to account for a higher inflation rate; provides that if a school district's expenditures for instructional supplies and materials exceeds the amount required to be budgeted for the budget year, allows the district to subtract an amount equal to the amount of the excess expenditures from the amount required to be budgeted for instructional supplies and materials for the subsequent budget year.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2006a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/E2B24623C224397987257147007DC269?Open&file=1375_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1375
Source: Colorado Legislature

ALVeto overridden: Legislature has overridden Governor's veto 03/2006P-12
Postsec.
Community College
Makes appropriations for the support, maintenance and development of public education in Alabama, for debt service, and for capital outlay for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007.
http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2006rs/bills/hb272.htm
Title: H.B. 272
Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/

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