From the ECS State Policy Database Finance--Resource Efficiency

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. Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary AL Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 School Start Dates S.B. 318 - School Start Dates From K-12 appropriations bill: Establishes legislative intent that local school systems be permitted to develop flexible school terms extend... More... NY Issued 04/2012 P-12 Establishing the New NY Education Reform Commission E.O. No. 44 Establishes the New NY Education Reform Commission to provide guidance and advice to the governor on education policy, performance, and inno... More... FL Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 School District Consortium to Increase Purchasing Power H.B. 5101 - School District Consortium to Increase Purchasing Power Requires each local board to enter into an interlocal agreement to establish the School District Consortium to maximize the purchasing power... More... VA Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Expenditures and Reports on Instructional Spending H.B. 250 Requires each local school board to report annually to the Board of Education the percentage of its annual operating budget allocated to ins... More... TX Adopted 10/2011 P-12 Financial Accountability Ratings 19 TAC 109.1002 The Texas Education Agency (TEA) proposes an amendment to s.109.1002, concerning the financial accountability rating system. The section est... More... OH Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Highly Efficient and Highly Effective Schools H.B. 153 - Highly Efficient and Highly Effective Schools Directs the department to develop standards for determining, from existing data, the amount of annual operating expenditures for classroom i... More... OH Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 More Efficiency and Effectiveness H.B. 153 - More Efficiency and Effectiveness Directs the department of education to develop a system to rank all districts, community schools and STEM schools according to: (1) performa... More... NC Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2011 P-12 School Calendar Pilot Program H.B. 200 - School Calendar Pilot Program Directs the state board to establish a school calendar pilot program in the Wilkes County Schools, the Montgomery County Schools, and the St... More... TN Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Collaboration, City and District Operations S.B. 1602 Permits a city and a special school district with coterminous boundaries to specify by contract that city funding for the district shall be ... More... ME Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Process for Energy Service Companies Contracting with Maine Schools H.P. 583 Removes provisions of law that allow school administrative units to use a process other than a competitive bid process in selecting energy s... More... MI Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Eliminates Certains Programs/Changes Pupil Count Day/District Transparency H.B. 4325 - K-12 Provisions From Legislative Staff Summary: Eliminates middle college grants and funding that provides districts additional funds for educating students... More... NC Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 School and Teacher Paperwork Reduction Act H.B. 720 Directs the state board of education (SBE) to streamline the paperwork process and to alleviate unnecessary, duplicative paperwork. Requires... More... OK Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Task Force on Creating Administrative Efficiencies S.B. 536 Creates the Task Force on Creating Administrative Efficiencies until November 30, 2011. The seven-member task force must examine ways to red... More... OK Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Cap on District Expenditures on Administration S.B. 664 Changes the cap on school district expenditures. School districts with more than 1,500 average daily attendance must not spend more than 5% ... More... NY Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 District Management Efficiency Awards Program S.B. 2808 - Part B, Sec. 1 Creates the district management efficiency awards program. Directs the commissioner of education to develop a plan, in consultation with the... More... NC Signed into law 08/2010 Postsec. Higher Education Energy Conservation Measures H.B. 1292 Provides that any energy savings realized by constituent institutions of the University of North Carolina must remain available to the insti... More... RI 07/2010 P-12 Cooperative Service Among School Districts Act of 2010 H.B. 7668, S.B. 2266 Establishes the Cooperative Service Among School Districts Act of 2010 to maximize both educational effectiveness and business services, to ... More... RI Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 Statewide Purchasing System and Programs H.B. 7397, Article 13, Section 5 Authorizes the department of elementary and secondary education, with the department of administration, to implement a statewide purchasing ... More... SC Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Report Cards H.J.R. 4823 - Sec. 1 and 2 Suspends the requirement that the department of education provide printed copies of 2010 district and school report cards; Requires schools ... More... WA Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Interdistrict Cooperative Programs H.B. 2913 Authorizes creation of innovative interdistrict cooperative high school programs designed to provide interdisciplinary curriculum and instru... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Financial Accountability H.B. 3 - Section 59 - Part III Former law called for the creation of a single financial accountability rating system. New enactment directs the commissioner, in consultati... More... OK Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Performance Review for Districts with High Poverty S.B. 473 Authorizes the Office of Accountability to conduct a performance review program to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the budget ... More... IA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Postsec. Community College Tax Credits for Small Wind Innovation H.B. 810 Provides for the establishment of small wind innovation zones; provides for the applicability of tax credits; relates to a political subdivi... More... WA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Finance H.B. 2343 Relates to achieving savings in education programs by revising provisions relating to diagnostic assessments, classified staff training, con... More... SC Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 School District Staffing Flexibility H.B. 3352 Allows local school districts and special schools to transfer funds among appropriated revenues in order to ensure the delivery of academic ... More... FL Removed from Ballot 04/2008 P-12 65% Solution -- Money to Classrooms Amend. 9 (BALLOT MEASURE 9.) Requires at least sixty-five percent of school funding received by school districts be spent on classroom instruction, r... More... ME Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 School District Consolidation H.B. 685 Allows a school administrative unit that is a municipality or school administrative district to combine with another school administrative d... More... ME Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 School District Consolidation H.B. 685; LD 216 Allows a school administrative unit that is a municipality or school administrative district to combine with another school administrative d... More... IN Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Allocation of Expenditures to Student Instruction S.B. 526 (omnibus) - Article 42.5 Creates new article in the education code, "Allocation of Expenditures to Student Instruction." Chapter 1. Purposes and General Provisions ... More... ME Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 School District Reorganization H.B. 35 (Resolve) Provides for legislative review of portions of Chapter 28: Closing a School in the Unorganized Territory, a major substantive rule... More... CO Rejected by voters 11/2006 P-12 District Budget Requirements (65%) as Statute Referendum J (REFERENDUM J; HB 06-1283) Creates the State Public School Expenditures Accountability Act. If approved, would amend state statutes to requi... More... RI Signed into law 07/2006 P-12 Statewide Purchasing System for Education Services and Products H.B. 6853; S.B. 2531 Directs the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, working with the Department of Administration, to establish a statewide purcha... More... CO Rejected by voters 06/2006 P-12 65% of School Budgets for Instruction Amendment 39 (H.B. 1283) Proposes a constitutional amendment to require that in each state fiscal year a school district spend at least 65% of its operational expend... More... VT Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 School Finance H.B. 867 - Section 20 (a) through (f) Directs the commissioner of education to work with education administrators to study the actual costs of providing services to elementary an... More... IL Adopted 05/2006 P-12 Education Purchasing Program 44 IAC 1110.10 thru .60 Authorizes the Education Purchasing Program. Designates the state board as the state education purchasing entity. States criteria on which c... More... FL Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Paperwork Reduction and Data Collection and Reporting Requirements H.B. 7087 (Section 11) Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year: (a) Each district school board must designate a classroom teacher to serve as the teacher represen... More... TX Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Financial Accountability H.B. 1 C (Sections 2.05; 2.09) Requires the commissioner, in consultation with the comptroller, to develop and implement a financial accountability rating system for schoo... More... IN Signed into law 03/2006 P-12 Resource Efficiency H.B. 1006 - Section 3 Section 3: Authorizes school corporations (districts) individually, in collaboration with other school corporations, and through the educati... More... TX Issued 08/2005 P-12 Comprehensive financial accountability and reporting system Executive Order RP47 Directs the commissioner of education to create and implement a comprehensive financial accountability and reporting system to ensure transp... More... OK Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Task Force on School District Administrative Efficiency H.B. 1021(multiple provisions) Establishes the Task Force on School District Administrative Efficiency. The purpose of the Task Force (which expires December 31, 2006) is ... More... WV Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Staffing Ratios H.B. 2578 House Bill 2578 increases the ratios of professional and service personnel to students in net enrollment. The increases in the ratios of pro... More... VA Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 School Efficiency Review Program H.B. 1967 The bill requires school divisions to pay 25 percent of the cost of the school efficiency review in the fiscal year immediately following th... More... KY Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 School District Efficiency and Effectiveness Review H.B. 267 Provision of budget bill. Directs the Office of Education Accountability to conduct an inventory and assessment of indicators that may be us... More... CO Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 School District Pilot Efficiency Reviews S.B. 144 Concerns reviews of school districts, and, in connection therewith, requiring pilot efficiency reviews of a limited number of school distric... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 School District or Charter School Procurement H.B. 2105 Concerns school district and charter school procurement; concerns contracts for materials and services the governing board may authorize for... More... ID Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Contract Competitive Bids S.B. 1345 Amends existing law relating to school property to provide that certain contracts shall not be executed unless in cooperation with a coopera... More... WV to governor 03/2004 P-12 Indicators of Efficiency H.B. 4001 - Multiple Sections Part of H.B. 4001 requires the state board to adopt and periodically review and update indicators of efficiency for use by the appropriate d... More... AR Signed into law 01/2004 P-12 State Department of Education Staffing Audit H.B. 1108 Requires an audit of staffing needs of the Department of Education. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1108.pdf... More... AR Signed into law 01/2004 P-12 Public School Funding Act of 2003 S.B. 42 Relates to the Public School Funding Act of 2003; provides equitable funding to public schools; provides a system for monitoring public scho... More... AR Signed into law 01/2004 P-12 Student Assessment and Educational Accountability Act of 2004 - Finance S.B. 33 § 9 Adds Ark. Code 6-15-2001. The state department of education and the Division of Legislative Audit of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committe... More... AR Vetoed 04/2003 Postsec. State Agency Paper Law S.B. 420 Relates to the State Agency Paper Reduction Law; exempts information, brochures, and catalogs distributed by an institution of higher educat... More... AR Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 State Board of Education and Paperwork H.B. 1040 Requires the State Board of Education to identify reports required from local school districts and to eliminate unnecessary reports and pape... More... CA Signed into law 09/2002 P-12 Auditing Local Education Agencies A.B. 2834 Requires the Comptroller to review and monitor audits of local education agencies by independent auditors. Requires local education agencies... More... FL Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Postsec. Community College Education Code Re-Write: Office of Inspector General Established S.B. 20E According to a legislative summary, "The bill establishes the Office of Inspector General within the State Board of Education to be responsi... More... OR Vetoed 03/2002 P-12 Use of Grant Funds H.B. 4036B Allows school districts and programs that receive grant funds to use funds for any educational purpose.... More... IN Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Guaranteed Energy Savings Contracts Law H.B. 1158 Makes certain changes in the guaranteed energy savings contracts law used by school corporations and political subdivisions; provides that a... More... CA Signed by Governor 09/2001 P-12 Pupil Support Personnel A.B. 722 Chapter No.250, Requires the State Department of Education to conduct a study of pupil support, defined to include school counselors, school... More... ME Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Cost-Sharing Agreements Between Districts H.B. 977 Public Law No. 373., (LD 1301) Provides an option for municipal members of a school district to design a cost-sharing formula; requires a co... More... FL Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Florida Education Finance Program H.B. 1545 2001-157., Requires the designation and publication of district performance grades; revises minimum requirements of the Florida Education Fi... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 School Energy Conservation Programs S.B. 1178 Specifies that school districts are ineligible to adjust budget limit for energy reduction purposes if the school district did not participa... More... AR Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 School Fund Management H.B. 1529 Allows the County Treasurer to receive and disburse school district funds from 1 account if the school district is using a proper computeriz... More... CO Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 State Audits of Educational Institutions H.B. 1009 Directs the State Auditor or the auditor's designee to conduct records management audits in all departments, institutions, and agencies of s... More... IA Signed into law 02/2001 P-12 H.B. 191 Provides for the establishment of the state percent growth for purposes of the state school foundation program. The state budget is set to ... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. State Board's Ability to Adjust Payments H.B. 2917 Amends the School Code; prohibits the State Board of Education from making audit adjustments to general state aid claims paid in fiscal year... More... CO Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Charter School Changes, Capital Reserve Usage H.B. 1124 Concerns public schools; authorizes charter schools to impose fees for excess transportation costs and to engage in the building, planning a... More... NH Signed into law 05/2000 Postsec. Resource Allocation S.B. 453 Relates to the expending of legacies or gifts and the transfer of funds by the regional community-technical colleges; allows the regional co... More... NH Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Use of Education Trust Fund H.B. 1316 Prohibits school districts from using disbursements from the Education Trust Fund as unanticipated revenue.... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Financial Reports to School Boards H.B. 1187 Requires local school superintendents to make reports to their local boards and to the public in response to financial deficits or budget ir... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Resource Allocation Component H.B. 1187 Allotment sheets will be issued for each school rather than for each system. Each school shall spend a minimum of 90 percent of funds design... More...