From the ECS State Policy Database Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures

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 CA Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 From section 56 of bill summary: Reduces by various amounts appropriations made for supplemental school counseling, special education, partnership academies, instructional support to help pupils pass the high school exit examination, English language tutoring to limited-English-proficient pupils, incentive grants to support the hiring of more K-8 physical education teachers, the Arts and Music Block Grant, certificated staff mentoring, and community colleges. Makes available for reappropriation the unencumbered balances of specified appropriations made in prior fiscal years for various educational purposes and would reappropriate $220,137,000 to the state department of education for apportionment for special education programs. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1001-1050/sb_1016_bill_20120627_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 1016 - Appropriations and Reappropriations Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov LA Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Postsec. Eliminates various special funds in the state treasury, including the School and District Accountability Rewards Fund and the Teacher Educational Aid for Children (TEACH) Fund (for pay or salary increases for certificated personnel), the Job Reserve Fund (to provide funds for additional training in vocational-technical schools and community colleges), Teachers Education Incentive Program Trust Fund, and the Louisiana Opportunity Loan Fund (a.k.a. LA-OP fund) (low-interest loans for postsecondary education not based on need). Provides these loans may be funded from the state general fund. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812526 Title: S.B. 590 Source: www.legis.state.la.us CT Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 (Sec. 34) Defines an alliance district as a town whose school district is among those with the lowest academic performance as measured by a district performance index (DPI) the bill establishes. For FY 13, the bill requires the education commissioner to designate 30 alliance districts. Districts keep the designation for five years. The commissioner must determine, by June 30, 2016, whether to designate additional alliance districts. Also establishes a subcategory of alliance districts called "educational reform districts," which are the 10 districts with the lowest DPIs. Defines how DPI is calculated. Requires the state comptroller to hold back any Education Cost Sharing (ECS) grant increase over the prior year's grant that is payable to an alliance district town in FY 13 or any subsequent fiscal year. The comptroller must transfer the money to the education commissioner. An alliance district may apply to receive its ECS grant increase when and how the education commissioner prescribes. The bill allows the commissioner to pay the funds to the district on condition that they are spent according to its approved district improvement plan (see below) and guidelines the bill allows SBE to adopt. Requires any balance of the conditional ECS funds allocated to each alliance district that remains unspent at the end of any fiscal year to be carried over and remain available to the district for the following fiscal year. Alliance districts must use their conditional ECS funding to improve local achievement and offset other local education costs the commissioner approves. To be eligible to receive the funds, a district must submit an application to the commissioner that must contain objectives and performance targets as well as an improvement plan with specified inclusions.allows the commissioner to withhold conditional funding if an alliance district fails to comply with the bill's requirements and renew the funding if a district's school board provides evidence that the district is meeting the objectives and performance targets of its plan. Districts receiving conditional funding must submit annual expenditure reports in a form and manner the commissioner prescribes. The commissioner must determine whether to require a district to repay amounts not spent in accordance with its approved application or reduce the district's grant by that amount in a subsequent year. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2012/ACT/PA/2012PA-00116-R00SB-00458-PA.htm Title: S.B. 458 Source: cga.ct.gov ID Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Limits the number of full-time equivalent positions to 23.75 and provides guidance for employee compensation and benefits. http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2012/S1398.pdf Title: S.B. 1398 Source: legislature.idaho.gov CA Signed into law 02/2012 P-12 Requires the state to readjust how budget cuts impact district funding. District funding would be reduced by a rate of 9.57% instead of 8.92%. The money saved by this budget move would be used to help restore $248 million to school district transportation funding. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_81_bill_20120210_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 81 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Vetoed 09/2011 P-12 Postsec. From bill summary: Requires the director of finance to meet specified requirements if he/she proposes to reduce an item of appropriation pursuant to specified provisions. Repeals provision setting student fee at each community college district at $36 per unit per semester, effective May 1, 2012 (previously this repeal became effective January 1, 2012). Specifies that the raising of this fee to $46 per unit per semester occurs effective with the summer term of the 2012 calendar year. Makes this provision operative May 1, 2012. Provides a statement of legislative intent relating to this delay in the fee increase. States that this bill addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution. Bill text: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx1_6_bill_20110912_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SBX1_6_Veto_Message.pdf Title: S.B. 6 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 From bill summary: Amends the Budget Act of 2011 by reducing the amount of moneys appropriated from the general fund to the state department of education for special education instruction. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_108_bill_20110726_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 108 - Special Education Funding Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov TX Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 From bill summary: Requires the commissioner, not later than July 1 of each year, to determine for each school district whether the estimated amount of state and local funding per student in weighted average daily attendance to be provided to the district under the Foundation School Program for maintenance and operations for the following school year is less than the amount provided to the district for the 2010-2011 school year and, if the amount is less, to certify the percentage decrease in funding. Bill text (pages 15-16): http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/821/billtext/pdf/SB00008F.pdf#navpanes=0 Bill summary: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/BillSummary.aspx?LegSess=821&Bill=SB8 Title: S.B. 8 - Certifying Decreases in State and Local Funding Source: www.legis.state.tx.us CT Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Requires the Commissioner of Education to conduct a review of the cost of state-mandated special education requirements including, but not limited to, examining who is best suited to bear the burden of proof in determining whether a student is eligible for special education services. Requires the Commissioner to submit a report on or before February 1, 2012, to the General Assembly. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/sa/pdf/2011SA-00009-R00HB-06103-SA.pdf Title: H.B. 6103 Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov ME Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Amends several provisions of the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act to more equitably allocate state funds that are appropriated for essential programs and services. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_125th/chapters/PUBLIC419.asp Title: S.P. 395 Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org OH Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Provides that at the request of the superintendent of public instruction, any entity that receives a budget earmark under the department of education must submit annually to the chairpersons of the committees of the house of representatives and the senate primarily concerned with education and to the department of education a report that includes a description of the services supported by the funds and of the results achieved by those services, an analysis of the effectiveness of the program, and an opinion as to the program's applicability to other school districts. For an earmarked entity that received state funds from an earmark in the prior fiscal year, no funds are to be provided by the department of education to an earmarked entity for a fiscal year until its report for the prior fiscal year has been submitted. Page 2 of 264: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part4.pdf Title: H.B. 153 - Earmark Accountability Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us FL Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Creates the Welfare Transition Trust Fund within the Department of Education (this trust fund is needed in order to implement the transfer of programs to the department as proposed in 2011 legislation; specifically, the School Readiness Program, proposed for transfer from the Agency for Workforce Innovation to the Department of Education as part of the creation of the Department of Economic Opportunity) Provides for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-157.pdf Title: S.B. 2162 Source: http://laws.flrules.org FL Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Postsec. Requires, beginning October 1, 2011, the Chief Financial Officer to conduct workshops with state agencies, local governments, educational entities, and entities of higher education to gather information pertaining to uniform reporting requirements. Requires the Chief Financial Officer to accept comments from state agencies, local governments, educational entities, entities of higher education, and interested parties regarding proposed charts of account by a certain date. Requires, by January 15, 2014, the CFO to will present a report to the Governor, President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives recommending a uniform chart of accounts, which requires specific enterprise-wide information related to revenues and expenditures of state agencies, local governments, educational entities, and entities of higher education. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-044.pdf Title: S.B. 1292 Source: http://laws.flrules.org NV Vetoed 05/2011 P-12 AN ACT relating to education; ensuring sufficient funding for K-12 public education for the 2011-2013 biennium; apportioning the State Distributive School Account in the State General Fund for the 2011-2013 biennium; authorizing certain expenditures; making appropriations for purposes relating to basic support, class-size reduction and other educational purposes; temporarily diverting the money from the State Supplemental School Support Fund to the State Distributive School Account for use in funding operating costs and other expenditures of school districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/AB/AB568_EN.pdf Title: A.B. 568 Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us GA Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Extends for 2013-14 and 2014-15 schools years a provision waiving expenditure controls relating to direct instructional costs, media center costs, and staff and professional development costs. Page 7 of 11: http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/116810.pdf Title: H.B. 192 - Expenditure Controls Source: www.legis.ga.gov NM Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Due to financial crisis, temporarily suspends requirements for districts to administer specified assessments for 2011-12. In addition, a student who has completed the course requirements for high school graduation in 2011-12 may graduate without demonstrating competence in required subject areas on the standards-based assessment or assessments or a portfolio of standards-based indicators. http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/11%20Regular/final/SB0360.pdf Title: S.B. 360 Source: http://www.nmlegis.gov/ OR Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Relating to state financial administration; appropriating money; and declaring an emergency. Effective 07/01/2011. http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measures/sb5500.dir/sb5552.en.html Title: S.B. 5552 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us OR Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Relating to state financial administration; appropriating money; declaring an emergency; and providing for transfer of moneys from the Education Stability Fund that requires approval by a three-fifths majority. Effective 07/01/2011 http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measpdf/sb5500.dir/sb5553.en.pdf Title: S.B. 5553 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us CA Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Extends through 2014-15 school year the provision allowing a school district, county office of education or charter school to shorten its instructional year by up to 5 days without incurring fiscal penalties. Page 45 of 81: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_70_bill_20110324_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 70 - Sec. 46201.2 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 03/2011 Community College Postsec. Extends through the 2014-15 fiscal year a provision authorizing a community college district to use funds apportioned to the district for specified categorical programs, for purposes of a prescribed list of programs (thereby allowing community college districts greater freedom when expending categorical funds). (Prior to this legislation, this provision extended through the 2012–13 fiscal year.) Pages 56-57 of 81: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_70_bill_20110324_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 70 - Sec. 84043 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov NC Became law without governor's signature 03/2011 P-12 Eliminates statewide standardized testing in the public schools, except as required by federal law or as a condition of a federal grant. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H48v4.pdf Title: H.B. 48 Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us NE Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 From the fiscal note: Repeals the section of statute requiring a student achievement coordinator at NDE. The general fund savings from eliminating the position will be $103,420 in FY12 and FY13. Increases teacher and administrator certificate fees from $55 to $70 with increases to provide for the expenses of 1.6 FTE at NDE who investigate alleged violations of professional ethics and practices by educators. Transfers funds remaining in the School District Reorganization Fund on July 1, 2011to the Education Innovation Fund. The balance of the reorganization fund was $702,178 on December 31, 2010. NDE anticipates there will be an additional reorganization that will be eligible for reimbursement from the fund in the current year in the amount of $425,915. So, the projected revenue that will be transferred to the Education Innovation Fund is estimated to be slightly in excess of $276,300, depending upon the interest earned the remainder of the fiscal year. Education Innovation Fund: The bill changes the allocation of the Education Innovation Fund beginning in FY2011-12 through FY2015-16. The fund is derived from lottery proceeds. Current law provides for the first $1 million of the fund to be used for the Excellence in Teaching Act and the remainder to be allocated, after administrative expenses, for distance education equipment and incentives provided to school districts and educational service units. Provides for the accumulated balance and annual revenue of the Education Innovation Fund to be used to fund a couple of existing state aid programs for high ability learners and early childhood education grants. The high ability learner program will be funded with lottery funds for five years and early childhood education grants will be shifted to this fund source for two years. The Center for Student Leadership and Extended Learning Act, a state funded program, is also switched to lottery funding for the next five years as is the multicultural education program. An integrated student information system will also be funded by the Education Innovation Fund. Continues funding for distance education equipment, incentives and administration but instead of $1 million being set aside for this program each fiscal year, the bill provides that only the amount necessary to fund loans for students who received a loan in the prior fiscal year through the Attracting Excellence to Teaching component of the program will be funded. http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Intro/LB333.pdf Title: L.B. 333 Source: http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov CA Signed into law 10/2010 P-12 Allows the state to defer up to $3.2 billion in payments to school districts until additional funding can be found. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1601-1650/ab_1624_bill_20101008_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 1624 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov MI Signed into law 09/2010 P-12 Requires the state department of education to work with districts that operate as a school of excellence cyber school and districts that operate an alternative education program with a seat-time waiver to provide a report to the legislature and the state budget director on all of the following: (1) Each district operating a program and the districts that enroll students in their program; (2) The total number of students and membership pupils enrolled in each program; (3) The district in which each pupil is enrolled if other than the district with the seat-time wavier or the cyber school; (4) The district in which the pupil was enrolled prior to enrolling in the cyber school or the district with a seat-time waiver program; (5) The number of participating students who had previously dropped out of school; (6) The number of participating students who had previously been expelled from school; (7) The cost per pupil paid to each online education provider; (8) The cost per pupil charged to school districts that enroll their students in the program; and (9) The name of each online education provider contracted by a district with a seat-time waiver or a cyber school and the state in which the online education provider is located. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2009-2010/publicact/htm/2010-PA-0164.htm Title: S.B. 1154 - Sec. 903 Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov TX Adopted 06/2010 P-12 Primarily from Texas Register: Amends provisions to accommodate the 2009 General Appropriations Act (SB 1), which requires that a new funding formula be allocated based on need for persons beyond the age of compulsory attendance who have not received a high school diploma and paid based on student performance and contact hours. (Statutory authority for rule action relating to adult education remains with the state board of education.) Rules relating to definitions, use of funds, essential program components, and the advisory committee are amended. New rules are added to address the new funding structure to be implemented beginning with school year 2010-2011, including allocation of funds, payment of funds and match requirements. New rules are also added to establish provisions relating to potential grantees, revocation and recovery of funds. The proposed rule actions would reflect changes resulting from the General Appropriations Act, Senate Bill (SB) 1, Article III, Rider 46, 81st Texas Legislature, 2009. Adopted as published in the April 2, 2010 Texas Register (pp 10-13 of 43): http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/pdf/backview/0402/0402prop.pdf Title: 19 TAC 89.21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 Source: www.sos.state.tx.us HI Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Appropriates Hawaii hurricane relief fund moneys to make funds available to restore instructional days for the 2010-11 school year if an agreement or agreements to restore instructional days are negotiated pursuant to the collective bargaining process. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2010/Bills/SB2124_CD1_.HTM Title: S.B. 2124 Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov GA Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 From bill summary: Temporarily waives certain expenditure controls relating to funds earned for direct instructional costs, media center costs, staff and professional development costs, and additional days of instruction. Temporarily provides for system average maximum class sizes in grades K-8. Provides for blanket waivers or variances of class size requirements. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/hb908.pdf Title: H.B. 908 Source: www.legis.state.ga.us VT Eligible for GOVERNOR'S desk. 05/2010 P-12 Proposes to implement results of the earlier "Challenges for Change" legislation. Education-related provisions (beginning page 141) include the following: In order to achieve a two-percent reduction in education spending statewide, directs the commissioner of education to determine and allocate a recommended individualized amount of reductions in FY 2012 education spending to each supervisory union and to each technical center district, which in the aggregate totals $23,200,000.00. The commissioner is to consider factors such as: (1) demonstrated fiscal restraint; (2) per-pupil administrative costs; (3) student-to-staff ratios; (4) the percentages of students from economically deprived backgrounds or for whom English is not the first language or both; and (5) other unique circumstances that affect education spending. On or before August 1, 2010, the commissioner is to notify each supervisory union and technical center district of the recommended individualized amount by which FY 2012 education spending should be reduced below FY 2011 education spending. School boards are to work jointly to achieve the necessary reductions. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2010/bills/Passed/H-792.pdf Title: H.B. 792 Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us AL Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 The state of Alabama issued $66.5 million in bonds dedicated toward public education. These bonds were paid for through dedicated state excise tax revenue. Details about this borrowing program must be provided to the chairs of the house education appropriation committee and the senate finance and taxation-education committee before the bonds are issued. Title: H.B. 743 Source: www.lexis.com MD Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Waives the fiscal 2010 county maintenance of effort (MOE) penalty for public education; Directs the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee to study the appropriate calculation of the penalty for failing to meet the MOE requirement and the appropriate party against whom the penalty should be applied; Requires the committees must report their findings and recommendations to the Legislative Policy Committee by December 31, 2010. http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/bills/hb/hb0223t.pdf Title: H.B. 223 Source: http://mlis.state.md.us MS Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Requires the school board of a school district having a certain ending fund balance in the 2010, 2011 and 2012 fiscal years to submit a plan for budget cuts to the State Department of Education; authorizes the State Board of Education to adopt rules and regulations specifying the required contents of the plan; requires the Department to approve or return the plan to the school district with instructions. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2010/pdf/HB/1100-1199/HB1170SG.pdf Title: H.B. 1170 Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us OH Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Amends 371.50.90 of Am. Sub. H.B. 1 of the 128th General Assembly (enacted July 2009). Clarifies that from an appropriation item in 2009 H.B. 1, eTech Ohio must use up to $1 million in FY 2010 to maintain the clearinghouse of distance learning courses called for in section 3333.82, up to $1 million in FY 2011 to contract with an entity to provide online Advanced Placement (AP) courses, and up to $1 million in FY 2011 for the continued maintenance of the clearinghouse established under section 3333.82. A provision in H.B. 1 barred students from being charged a fee for clearinghouse courses in FY 2010 but permitted a student fee in FY 2011; new provision extends fee waiver through FY 2011. Adds provision that in choosing a vendor to provide AP courses, eTech may require that the courses be provided through the clearinghouse established under section 3333.82. Pages 31-32 http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_SB_155_EN_N.pdf Title: S.B. 155 - Section 6 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us UT Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Postsec. Section 1: Directs the state board, by December 31, 2010, to review mandates provided for in administrative rule, to determine whether some could be waived to remove funding pressures on public schools temporarily. Sections 2-4: Eliminates the requirement to administer criterion-referenced tests to students in grade 2. Directs the state board, before the October 2010 Education Interim Committee meeting, to present its plan for a pilot program for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years to (1) replace the 10th-grade basic skills competency test with computer adaptive testing of basic skills, and (2) administer the ACT exam to high school students. Directs the state board to implement such a pilot program during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years. Exempts districts and charter schools from administering the 10th-grade basic skills competency test during the the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years. Directs the state board to re-direct the money saved by not administering the 10th-grade basic skills competency test to fund implementation of the pilot program during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 fiscal years. Exempts a student from the 10th-grade basic skills competency test requirement if the student was in 10th grade in the 2008-09 or 2009-10 school years and did not pass the competency test (10th-grade basic skills competency test functions as exit exam unless certain waivers apply). Section 5: Exempts local boards from the requirement to develop and administer activity disclosure statements for high school-level extracurricular activities (as called for in Section 53A-3-420) until the 2012-13 school year. Section 6: Exempts the state board, until the 2012-13 school year, from the requirements called for in Section 53A-3-602.5 to annually (1) develop a school performance report for schools, districts and charter schools, and (2) collect and electronically report specified performance data for schools, districts and charter schools. Section 7: Exempts a school district from certain requirements related to the disposal of textbooks until the 2012-13 school year. Section 8: Until the 2012-13 school year, releases districts from the requirement in Section 53A-13-107 that an annual presentation on adoption be given to students in grades 7-12. Section 9: Until the 2012-13 school year, releases districts from the requirement in Section 53A-14-107 regarding alignment of primary instructional materials aligned with the core curriculum adopted under Section 53A-1-402. http://le.utah.gov/~2010/bills/hbillenr/hb0166.pdf Title: H.B. 166 Source: le.utah.gov UT Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Adds Section 53A-17a-105.5. Defines "qualifying program" as (1) the at-risk flow through program; (2) the homeless and disadvantaged minority students program [both created in 53A-17a-121]; (3) the gifted and talented program; (4) the advanced placement program; (5) the concurrent enrollment program. Allows a district or charter school that receives a state allocation of less than $10,000 for a qualifying program to either (1) combine the funds with certain other program funds and use the combined funds in accordance with the program requirements for any of the qualifying programs that are combined; or (2) transfer the funds to a qualifying program for which the district or charter school received an allocation of funds that is greater than or equal to $10,000; and use the combined funds in accordance with the program requirements for the qualifying program to which the funds are transferred. Pages 5-6 of 6: http://le.utah.gov/~2010/bills/hbillenr/hb0149.pdf Title: H.B. 149 - Section 3 Source: le.utah.gov MS Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Creates the School District Emergency Bridge Loan Act to assist districts that suffer revenue losses due to the economic downturn. Provides that a district that receives a loan shall pledge to repayment any part of the homestead exemption annual tax loss reimbursement to which it may be entitled; authorizes state bonds for moneys for the loan program; grants to the state department of education certain powers and duties with regard to this act. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2010/pdf/HB/1100-1199/HB1170SG.pdf Title: H.B. 1349 Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us NM Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Provides flexibility to school districts to meet state fiscal solvency requirements; provides that the Secretary of Education may waive requirements of the Public School Code and rules promulgated in accordance with that code pertaining to individual class load, teaching load, length of school day, staffing patterns, subject areas and purchases of instructional materials. http://nmlegis.gov/Sessions/10%20Regular/final/SB0097.pdf Title: S.B. 97 Source: http://nmlegis.gov/ IA Signed into law 01/2010 P-12 Delays establishing the state percent of growth, also known as allowable growth, for the budget year beginning July 1, 2011, from the 2010 Legislative Session to the 2011 Legislative Session for the state school foundation program. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&hbill=SF2045 Title: S.B. 2045 Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us IL Adopted 12/2009 P-12 Adapted from Illinois Register: Amends rules to provide for uniformity in accounting for the federal funds that school districts receive under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. Establishes new account numbers so that the specific federal sources of funding can be tracked and so that expenditures related to those funds can be distinguished from expenditures of funds from the same sources received in the normal course of the federal budgeting process. New section 110.130 provides districts with information on what to expect as a result of receipt of this federal funding. Clarifies that local education agencies are prohibited from using ARRA funds for specified expenditures. Pages 90-116 of 164: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume33_issue49.pdf Title: 23 IAC 100.120, .130, .Table C Source: www.cyberdriveillinois.com CA Signed into law 09/2009 P-12 States legislative intent that the state of California generate sufficient funds for, and allocate sufficient funds to education, so as to bring per-pupil spending up to or beyond the national average, and to a level that accounts for the actual cost of educating California's diverse pupil population. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0051-0100/acr_54_bill_20090916_chaptered.pdf Title: A.C.R. 54 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov AZ Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Provides for K-12 budget reconciliation; relates to intergovernmental agreements and contracts, the Early Graduation Scholarship Program, charter schools, the State Board of Education duties, school district and charter school procurement, school accreditation, school governing boards duties, school budget and bond elections, school district tax levies, employment practices, pupil assessment, school report cards, special education, pupil discipline, and average daily membership. Chapter 12 http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/3s/bills/hb2011h.pdf Title: H.B. 2011C Source: http://www.azleg.gov/ CA Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 The purpose of the After School Education and Safety Program is to create incentives for establishing before- and after-school enrichment programs (including during the summer) that partner public schools and communities to provide academic and literacy support and safe alternatives for youth. Adds section 8481 to the Education Code, to provide that article 22.5, "After School Education and Safety Program," will become inoperative on September 1, 2009 and is repealed as of January 1, 2010. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx4_2_bill_20090728_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 2 - Section 8 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Postsec. Provides that no automatic increases will be provided to the University of California, California State University or to state agency operations, including, but not limited to, annual price increases to state departments and agencies. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx4_12_bill_20090728_chaptered.pdf Title: A.B. 12D - Section 6 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Authorizes local boards to apply to the state superintendent for waivers from financial provisions established in Chapter 3306, including any applicable expenditure or reporting standard prescribed by rule adopted by statutory requirement, or or a waiver of any operating standard adopted under division (D)(3) of section 3301.07. Directs the state board to adopt standards for the approval or disapproval of such waivers. Requires the state superintendent to consider every waiver application, and to determine whether to grant or deny a waiver in accordance with the state board's standards. For each waiver granted, directs the state superintendent to specify the time period during which the waiver is in effect, up to five years. Allows a district to apply to renew a waiver. Pages 1113-1114 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.40 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Applies only to school districts, and not to community schools or STEM schools. Directs the department of education to develop a form, to be known as the "Formula Accountability and Transparency" form or "FACT" form. Directs the department to annually publish on its Web site a FACT form for each district, comparing the payments to the district under each component prescribed by statute with the district's deployment of those payments as indicated in its spending plan. Clarifies the form will not be the basis of any accountability actions, but is to be a public document to inform parents, students and taxpayers about the district's spending. Page 1113 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.35 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Section 265.50.53: In fiscal years 2010 and 2011, allows the state superintendent to recommend the reallocation of unexpended and unincumbered general revenue fund appropriations if the superintendent deems this necessary to meet the reporting requirements of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Section 265.50.55: Authorizes the director of budget and management, on written request of the state superintendent and with the approval of the controlling board, to transfer appropriations to meet the maintenance of effort and use of funds provisions of ARRA, including transferring appropriation between FY 2010 and FY 2011. Pages 2831-2832 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf Title: H.B. 1 - Section 265.50.53 and 265.50.55 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Establishes the method of calculating the following components of each district's adequacy amount: Section 3306.06: "Additional services support component" (includes 5 factors: family and community liaison; counselor; summer remediation; school nurse wellness coordinator; district health provider). Section 3306.07: "Administrative services support component" (includes 3 factors: district administration; principal; administrative support personnel). Section 3306.08: "Operations and maintenance support component" Section 3306.09: "Gifted education support component" (includes 4 factors: gifted identification, gifted coordinator, gifted intervention specialist, gifted intervention specialist professional development). Section 3306.091: "Enrichment support component" (calculated by multiplying the district's formula ADM times $100 times the Ohio educational challenge factor). Specifies the enrichment support component must be used for purposes other than services for students identified as gifted. Authorizes a district to spend the enrichment support component to pay for enrichment activities to encourage the intellectual and creative pursuits of all students, including the fine arts. Section 3306.10: "Technology resources support component" (includes 2 factors: licensed librarian and media specialist, and technical equipment). Section 3306.11: Calculating special education teacher and aide positions within "instructional services support" in new Section 3306.05. Section 3306.12: Establishes definitions for purposes of funding student transportation, and methods for making such calculations. Section 3306.13: Revises the definition of "potential value", used in calculating the adjustment to the local share of certain school districts, to distinguish between districts levying 20.1 or more effective class one mills and districts levying fewer than 20.1 effective class one mills. Section 3306.18: Directs the state superintendent to annually certify to the state board of education the amount each district expended in the previous fiscal year on each factor of the district's adequacy amount. Section 3306.19: [From DOE summary of H.B. 1:] Guarantees each district, in FY 2010, 99% of its previous year's base and, in FY 2011, 98% of its previous year's base. Sets the gain cap at 3/4 of 1% more than the previous year's base. Sections 3306.191 and 3306.192: Method of calculating additional transitional aid in FY 2010 and 2011 to certain school districts. Section 3306.25: Directs the state superintendent to adopt rules prescribing standards for the expenditure of funds under the school finance system as revised by H.B. 1, and for the reporting of expenditures of those funds for particular funded components, so that funds are directed toward the purposes for which they were calculated. Specifies that rules regarding reporting standards under the following components shall not take effect before July 2010; rules regarding spending standards shall not take effect before July 2011. Directs the superintendent to determine the funded components included in the three categories of: (1) Core academic strategy components, i.e., those components fundamental to successful education practices in the 21st century for all students. [From DOE summary of H.B. 1:] Specifies that the superintendent's rules for spending and reporting of components in the core academic strategy components must provide flexibility in determining how to spend funds, depending on the district's current performance rating, instead of merely requiring flexibility for "effective" and "excellent" districts. Specifies that the higher the rating, the greater the flexibility the rules must provide, and that districts rated "excellent" or "excellent with distinction" are not subject to spending rules (except to the all-day kindergarten requirements), but are subject to reporting rules. (2) Academic improvement components, i.e., components that have been demonstrated to make the greatest improvement in the academic achievement of underperforming students. Specifies that rules adopted for academic improvement components must prescribe spending and reporting standards, but that these will apply only to districts in "academic emergency" or "academic watch" for two or more consecutive years. (3) Other components. Specifies that these rules will prescribe only reporting and not spending requirements or standards, but will be applicable to all school districts. Pages 1088-1101 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635 Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.06, 3306.07, 3306.08, 3306.09, 3306.091, 3306.10, 3306.11, 3306.12, 3306.13, 3306.18, 3306.19, 3306.191, 3306.192, Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Requires local boards to annually submit to the department of education a plan describing how the district will spend the funds received under the evidence-based model. Requires districts to spend funds received for each component, and for districts with a three-year average graduation rate of 80% or less, deployment of funds to increase high school graduation rates, as set forth in new Section 3306.31. Requires the department to annually reconcile each spending plan with the district's actual spending. Provides that if the deparment finds that a district has not complied with any applicable expenditure or reporting standard, the department must take action as set forth in Section 3306.33. Pages 1106-1107 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.30 Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us OH Adopted 07/2009 P-12 Establishes the "Health Care Fund" as a separate account within the Employers' Trust Fund. Provides that fund assets may be used only for the payment of health care benefits, qualified medical expenses, dental and vision coverage, if applicable, and to reimburse the Medicare Part B premiums paid by eligible benefit recipients. Provides that assets in the Health Care Fund may not be used for retirement, disability, or survivor benefits, or for any other purpose for which the other funds of the system are used. http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3307/1/11/3307$1-11-12_FF_N_RU_20090706_0852.pdf Title: OAC 3307:1-11-12 Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us AZ Vetoed 07/2009 P-12 Relates to the implementation of the FY 2009-10 budget for K-12 education, basic state aid, K-12 rollover, online instruction, teacher performance pay, the Early Graduation Scholarship Program, the School Facilities Board, school district personnel employment practices, policies and wages, district employee political and professional association activities, program audits of school districts and charter schools, and the authority of a school district or charter school to charge tuition for kindergarten. http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/49leg/1r/summary/h.hb2648_07-01-09_astransmittedtogovernor.doc.htm Title: H.B. 2648 Source: http://www.azleg.gov AZ Vetoed 07/2009 P-12 Relates to charter schools and financing; makes appropriations; relates to kindergarten through grade twelve education budget reconciliation; relates to contracts; relates to investment of public monies, graduate information and scholarships. http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/49leg/1r/summary/s.1187ed_as%20passed%20by%20the%20senate.doc.htm Title: S.B. 1187 Source: http://www.azleg.gov TN Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Requires the state school bond authority to report the total funds received under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to the chairs of the senate and house finance, ways and means committees by January 2, 2010. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/HB1988.pdf Title: H.B. 1988 Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov OR Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Requires the transfer of the lottery ending balance after the end of each biennium to the school capital matching subaccount created within the Education Stability Fund. Chapter 872. http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/hb2000.dir/hb2012.en.pdf Title: H.B. 2012 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/ MO Vetoed 06/2009 P-12 Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the State Board of Education and Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills091/billpdf/truly/HB0002T.PDF Title: H.B. 2 Source: http://www.house.mo.gov OR Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Relates to state financial administration; transfers the balance of the Education Stability Fund to the State School Fund; establishes the maximum limit for payment of expenses by the Department of Education from lottery moneys transferred to the State School Fund; decreases the General Fund appropriation to the Department of Education. Chapter 634 http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/sb5500.dir/sb5554.en.pdf Title: S.B. 5554 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/ OR Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Appropriates moneys from the General Fund and the Rainy Day Fund to the Department of Education for the State School Fund; creates a formula by the the Department of Administrative Service calculates the amount of certain appropriations from funds; limits biennial expenditures by the Department of Education of lottery funds allocated for the State School Fund; authorizes certain expenditures form the Fund; establishes the maximum amount the Department may spend from the Fund each fiscal year. Chapter 635 http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/sb5500.dir/sb5520.en.pdf Title: S.B. 5520 Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/ TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Section 40: Specifies that the state education agency is to use funds appropriated for such purposes to develop (1) summer study guides to help parents of students who do not perform satisfactorily on one or more portions of specified state assessments and (2) training materials and resources to assist teachers help English language learners meet state performance expectations. Section 41: Shifts responsibility for bearing costs of preparing, administering or grading state assessments from districts to the state education agency. Pages 28-29 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf Title: H.B. 3646 - Sections 40 and 41 Source: www.legis.state.tx.us WI Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Act No. 23. STATE SCHOOL AID; JUNE 2009. In the second fiscal year of the fiscal biennium in which this subsection takes effect, in addition to the lapse required in 2009 Wisconsin Act 11, section 9139 (1f), there is lapsed to the general fund $261,278,000 from the appropriation account under section 20.255 (2) (ac) of the statutes. Notwithstanding sections 121.07 and 121.08 of the statutes, in addition to the amount specified in 2009 Wisconsin Act 11, section 9139 (1f), the department of public instruction shall use the balance in the appropriation account under section 20.255 (2) (ac) of the statutes and $261,278,000 of the amount appropriated in the second fiscal year of the fiscal biennium in which this subsection takes effect under section 20.255 (2) (p) of the statutes, as created by 2009 Wisconsin Act 11, to make payments to school districts in June 2009 under section 121.15 (1) and (1g) of the statutes. http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act23.pdf Title: S.B. 232 Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us NV Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Postsec. Requires the Interim Finance Committee to approve the employment of a consultant by a department, agency, or local governmental entity; requires a board, commission, school district and institution of the Higher Education System to submit a report concerning consultants; requires that contracts with temporary employment services be awarded by open competitive bidding; provides certain exceptions for persons employed for federally funded transportation projects; requires an audit of consultant contracts. Chapter 384. http://leg.state.nv.us/75th2009/Bills/AB/AB463_EN.pdf Title: A.B. 463 Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/ OK Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Appropriations bill -- state department of education. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/SB/SB219_ENR.RTF Title: S.B. 219 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us OK Signed into law 05/2009 Postsec. Authorizes the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to expend from the Education Stabilization component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Fund the sum of Sixty-eight Million Seven Hundred Ninety-two Thousand Four Hundred Seventy-seven Dollars ($68,792,477.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary for the allocation by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education pursuant to the provisions of Article XIII-A of the Oklahoma Constitution for the education and general operation budgets of the institutions and for other programs, construction, renovations or repairs administered by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/SB/SB69_ENR.RTF Title: S.B. 69 Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us NE Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Changes the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; amends provisions regarding the Education Innovation Fund; relates to property taxes; amends provisions regarding expenditures for payments to school district certified employees in exchange for voluntary termination; relates to calculations for state aid, English proficiency, property valuations, school reorganizations and poverty allowance expenditures. http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Final/LB545.pdf Title: L.B. 545 Source: http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov WA Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Suspends temporarily any cost-of-living salary increases for educational employees; provides for additional cost-of-living allocations in subsequent fiscal years. Chapter 573 http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2363-S.PL.pdf Title: H.B. 2363 Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov MN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Authorizes a pilot project to map state expenditures on children for providing health, safety, stability, growth, development, and education in the state. Requires a study on the collection and reporting of summary data relating to decisions that affect a child's status within the juvenile justice system. https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0702.2.html&session=ls86 Title: H.B. 702 Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us MT Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Implements receipt of and appropriates federal stimulus funds to include the hospital bed tax allocation, school district employee retirement costs, unemployment benefits and working training, TANF block grants, water projects, the Medicaid account, a wood products industry recovery program, school budget levies, school facilities energy efficiency improvements, energy development and demonstration grants, transportation for seniors and disabled persons, and the allocation and authorization for bonds. Title: H.B. 645 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet GA Vetoed 05/2009 P-12 Adds new subsections to Code Section 20-2-167 and 20-2-184.1. Provides that for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 school years, the expenditure controls relating to direct instruction costs, media center costs, professional development costs, and additional days of instruction do not apply, and that no penalty will be applied to a local school system that fails to comply with expenditure controls. Requires each local school system to report to the department of education its budgets and expenditures of such funds. Bill: http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/sb178.pdf Veto message 11 (scroll toward bottom of page): http://gov.georgia.gov/00/press/detail/0,2668,78006749_139486062_140372354,00.html Title: S.B. 178 Sections 8 and 9 Source: gov.georgia.gov ND Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Requires the superintendent of public instruction to notify the superintendent and board of each school district in the state, by certified mail, that any education stabilization fund dollars received by the district as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 must be used first to restore funding deficiencies in the 2009-10 school year when compared to the 2005-06 school year and that any additional dollars received under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 must be used for one-time, nonrecurring expenditures because this state is not responsible for replacing that level of funding or otherwise sustaining that level of funding during the 2011-13 biennium. 2. During the thirty-day period following receipt of the notification, the superintendent of each school district shall arrange to publish the notice at least twice in the official newspaper of the district. http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-text/JARF1000.pdf Title: H.B. 1400 - Stabilization Fund Dollars Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov ND Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 From the fiscal note: The total funding increases addressed in the bill is $198,544,337. It is made up of $102,800,000 general fund, 10,100,000 state tuition fund, and $85,644,337 federal ARRA state fiscal stabilization funds. The breakdown is as follows: $82,204,416 million State School Aid (HB 1013): ---> 67,644,416 for the main funding formula. ---> 1,000,000 for required assessments. ---> 2,600,000 for regional education associations (through a factor in formula. ---> 3,680,000 for one student contact day on the school calendar. Begins the second year. ---> 3,780,000 for student performance strategists. Begins the second year. ---> 2,700,000 for career advisors. Begins the second year. ---> 400,000 for regional education associations (grants). ---> 400,000 for gifted and talented programs (grants). 10,000,000 for Transportation grants (HB 1013). -2,000,000 for Special Education Contracts (HB 1013). 16,795,584 for supplemental operations grants (HB 1013). 85,644,337 for supplemental one-time grants (HB 1013). 2,300,000 for a teacher support program (HB 1400). 500,000 for a national board certification fund (HB 1400). 100,000 for continuing education grants (HB 1400). 3,000,000 for ND scholarships for 2009-2010 graduates (SB 2003). Begins the second year. The increases projected for the 2011-2013 biennium are based on the cost to maintain the K-12 funding level established in the second year of the 2009-2011 biennium. Included in the cost is $5.5 million for the "At-Risk" factor that becomes effective July 1, 2011 and $3 million to cover the cost of the additional year for ND scholarships. HB 1400 includes: Section 48 - $2,300,000 for a grant to ESPB for a teacher support system program. Section 49 - $500,000 for the purpose of creating the National Board Certification fund. Section 50 - $100,000 for the creation of the national board certification fund. HB 1013 includes: Grants – State school aid $808,370,295 Grants – Special education contracts $15,500,000 Grants – Transportation $43,500,000 Grants – Supplemental one-time $85,644,337 Grants – Supplemental operations $16,795,584 http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/fiscal-notes/JARF0900.pdf Title: H.B. 1400 and H.B. 1013 - Appropriations Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly ID Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Appropriates moneys to the Department of Health and Welfare for the Independent Councils for fiscal year 2010; provides that the State Controller shall make transfers from the General Fund; limits the number of full time equivalent positions for the Independent Councils; provides legislative intent for the education stipend for Department of Health and Welfare employees; allows transfers between personnel costs and operating expenditures. Chapter 256 http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/H0314.htm Title: H.B. 314 Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov NV Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Makes a supplemental appropriation to the State Distributive School Account for unanticipated shortfalls in Fiscal Year 2008-2009 in certain tax revenue. Chapter 17 http://leg.state.nv.us/75th2009/Bills/AB/AB533_EN.pdf Title: A.B. 533 Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/ ID Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Appropriates funds to the State School for the Deaf and the Blind; limits the number of full-time equivalent positions; provides legislative intent on personnel costs; provides legislative intent on school operations; directs salary reductions. Chapter 204 http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/S1210.htm Title: S.B. 1210 Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov ID Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Appropriates moneys to the Superintendent of Public Instruction/State Department of Education for fiscal year 2010; limits the number of full-time equivalent positions; expresses legislative intent with regard to the longitudinal data system; provides legislative intent for personnel costs; directs salary reductions. Chapter 233 http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/H0312.htm Title: H.B. 312 Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov WI Signed into law 02/2009 P-12 Postsec. Provides a total of $2,630,000 in grant moneys to certain organizations in the building trades to provide job training and retraining programs, including training in green building and the installation of alternative energy systems. The following organizations receive funds under this bill: 1) the Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership/Building Industry Group Skilled Trades Employment Program; 2) Painters and Allied Trades, District Council 7; 3) Wisconsin State Council of Carpenters; 4) Wisconsin Pipe Trades Association, Local 75; 5) Wisconsin Laborers' District Council; 6) Wisconsin Operating Engineers; and 7) International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. As a condition of receiving the grant moneys, each organization must enter into a contract with Commerce that specifies permissible uses of the grant moneys and requires the organization to comply with reporting and accountability measures. directs the Wisconsin Technical College System Board to award to technical college district boards at least $1,000,000 annually in training program grants for training in advanced manufacturing skills, with priority given to welding. Relates to enterprise zone tax credits, health and higher education project funding, green building job training, mortgage lender licensure, foreclosure consultants, foreclosure education and assistance, hospital assessment Medicaid funding, Wisconsin Works child care, state building repair funding, federal stimulus funding, local energy equipment funding, business franchise tax credits, out-of- state sales tax collection, digital goods sales taxes, subprime loan refinancing, and transportation funding. http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act2.pdf Title: S.B. 62 Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us UT Signed into law 02/2009 P-12 Modifies revenues appropriated for the Minimum School Program and school building programs; establishes a ceiling for the state contribution to the Minimum School Program for fiscal year 2008-09; specifies how reductions to the Minimum School Program shall be allocated among school districts and charter schools; and provides for certain salary adjustments for school administrators. http://le.utah.gov/~2009/bills/sbillenr/sb0004.pdf Title: S.B. 4 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NV Signed into law 12/2008 P-12 Revises provisions governing state financial administration; authorizes the State Treasurer to establish a line of credit on behalf of the state with the Local Government Pooled Investment Fund not to exceed a specified amount and to sell notes to the Fund to establish the line of credit; requires the bond funds to be placed into the General Fund; reduces the moneys budgeted for Fiscal Year 208-09; provides that specified examinations will not be administered to pupils in the 2008-09 school year. Chapter 1 Title: A.B. 2A Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AL Approved by voters 11/2008 P-12 (AMENDMENT 1; ACT 2008-508) Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to reestablish the Education Trust Fund Rain Day Account within the state trust fund; establishes the General Fund Rainy Day Account within the state trust fund. http://www.lrs.state.al.us/publications/2008-special-session.html#Anchor-Ac-2475 Title: V. 1 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Approved by voters 11/2008 P-12 (CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT E; HJR 12 - 2008 GENERAL SESSION) Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to authorize the state to subscribe to stock or bonds using funds in the permanent State School Fund and funds derived from federal land grants designated in the Enabling Act, except as limited by statute. http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Utah_Amendment_5_%282008%29 Title: V. 5 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Concerns Commission on Children and Youth; requires the commission to design and oversee a resource mapping of all federal and state funding sources and streams that support the health, safety, permanence, growth, development, and education of children in the state. http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC1197.pdf Title: S.B. 4012 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/ AL Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Allows for 75%, up from 20%, of unexpended education funds to be appropriated to the Education Trust Fund. Title: H.B. 63A Source: www.lexis.com TN Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Directs the Basic Education Program (BEP) Review Committee to study funding policies implemented by local governments in light of the increased state funding by BEP 2.0 and report to the General Assembly by November 1, 2008, as part of its annual report. Title: S.J.R. 1180 Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us NY Adopted 06/2008 P-12 Establishes allowable programs and activities, criteria for public reporting by school districts of their total foundation aid expenditures, and other requirements for purposes of preparation of contracts for excellence by certain specified school districts. Pages 6-11 of 27: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2008/mar5/pdfs/rules.pdf Title: Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Selected provisions: • Creates the Senior Year Plus Program to increase access of high school students to college credit and advanced placement coursework. (Page 40, Line 23 through Page 64, Line 10) • Requires postsecondary institutions providing Senior Year Plus programming to supply data concerning the proportion of women and minorities enrolled in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs. The Department of Education is to annually report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by January 15. (Page 50, Line 7) • Permits preschool programs to receive supplemental aid or modified allowable growth if approved by the School Budget Review Committee. (Page 64, Line 23) • Requires program approval by the Department of Education to receive preschool aid funding in a program's second and subsequent years. (Page 64, Line 34) • Requires nonreversion of Preschool Program funds appropriated to the Department of Education. (Page 65, Line 30) • Provides that it is the intent of the General Assembly that if funding is made available for implementing a Statewide Early Childhood Professional Development System in FY 2008 or FY 2009, the System will be implemented by the Department with the collaboration of Area Education Agencies. (Page 66, Line 13) • Requires the Iowa Empowerment Board to conduct a study of the role the Empowerment Program can play in strengthening child care provided voluntarily and at no cost by family members, friends, and neighbors. The Board must convene a working group to provide advice and must submit a report to the From fiscal analysis: Significant changes to Iowa Code: • Prohibits local Community Empowerment boards from carrying forward more than 20.0% of their annual allocation to the following fiscal year. (Page 26, Line 12) • Requires local Community Empowerment boards to consider whether support services for children's health needs are being provided to child care facilities in their communities. (Page 27, Line 17) • Requires grant awards in the Before and After School Grant Program to be at least $30,000 and not more than $50,000. Increases the required local match funding for Before and After School Grants from 20.0% to a dollar-for-dollar match. Requires the local match to be cash or in-kind contributions. Eliminates an allocation of $100,000 from the Before and After School Grant Program for employment of a contractor for long-term planning and development. Specifies that programs serving middle and high school youth are eligible for the Program. Permits grants to be used for multiple fiscal years. (Page 27, Line 26 through Page 28, Line 16) • Requires Area Education Agencies (AEAs) to transfer 84.0% of Medicaid payments received to the Department of Education, with the exception of reimbursements for services provided under Part C of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). (Page 28, Line 17) • Shifts funding for the Reading Recovery Program to the University of Northern Iowa, where the Program is now centered. (Page 29, Line 7) For other details, see full text section of this database record. Title: H.F. 2679 Source: http://www3.legis.state.ia.us IA Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Governor and General Assembly by January 15, 2009. (Page 10, Line 20) DIVISION IV – STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND TEACHER QUALITY PROGRAM • Requires disposition of Teacher Quality Funding to be negotiated as part of a whole-grade sharing agreement (Page 66, Line 33) • Repeals language that included licensed teachers employed part-time by a district under an agreement with a practitioner preparation program in Teacher Quality funding. (Page 67, Line 7) • Increases the minimum salary for a beginning teacher by $1,500 to $28,000. (Page 67, Line 24) FISCAL IMPACT: The estimated statewide cost of the minimum salary increase for beginning teachers is $2.1 million in FY 2009. • Increases the minimum salary for a career teacher by $2,500 to $30,000. (Page 67, Line 30) FISCAL IMPACT: The estimated statewide cost of the minimum salary increase for beginning teachers is $828,000 in FY 2009. TEACHER QUALITY FUNDING ALLOCATIONS • Allocates $1.7 million for National Board Certification awards in FY 2009, an increase of $620,000 compared to FY 2008. The funding is intended to fulfill existing commitments, and no new awards are funded. The allocation for Market Factor Teacher Incentives Program is eliminated. (Page 69, Line 11) • Allocates $28.5 million for Professional Development for FY 2009, an increase of $8.5 million compared to FY 2008. Includes new sub-allocations of $8.5 million for professional development related to the core curriculum and $915,000 to implement a statewide early childhood professional development system. (Page 69, Line 28) • Allocates $250,000 for the Institute for Tomorrow's Workforce (ITW) for FY 2009. This is a new allocation. (Page 71, Line 18) • Allocates $335,000 for Pay for Performance Implementation Projects for FY 2009. This is a decrease of $2.2 million compared to the original FY 2009 allocation enacted in 2007. This amount is sufficient to fund the implementation phase of the three projects that received development grants in FY 2008. (Page 71, Line 26) • Repeals the Market Factor Teacher Incentives Program. (Page 72, Line 5) Title: H.B. 2679 Source: http://www3.legis.state.ia.us DE Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Community College Directs the General Assembly and the Governor to comprehensively address the current the state's financial situation. Provides for the use of a strategy to include but not be limited to base budget cuts revenue enhancements and program re-engineering. Limits reductions to Public Education. http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis144.nsf/vwLegislation/HJR+14/$file/legis.html?open Title: H.J.R. 14 Source: http://legis.delaware.gov WY Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Bill establishes school district financial assistance for specified purposes outside of and in addition to the education resource block grant school finance funding model; modifies the career vocational education grant program; establishes a statewide career technical education steering committee; funds school district distance education programs; eliminates distance learning incentive payments; and, imposes duties and reporting requirements upon the Department of Education. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2008/Enroll/SF0070.pdf Title: S.B. 70 Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us IA Signed into law 02/2008 P-12 Provides for the establishment of the state percent of growth (4%) for purposes of the State School Foundation Program; provides for computation of state aid. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=82&menu=text&hbill=HF2140 Title: H.F. 2140 Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us NY Adopted 01/2008 P-12 The board of regents has readopted, by emergency action effective January 22, 2008, the emergency rule adopted at the September 10, 2007 Regents meeting, and readopted at the October 23, 2007 Regents meeting, that added a new section 100.13 and amended section 170.12 of the Commissioner's Regulations. The rule is necessary to implement the Education Law section 211-d to establish allowable programs and activities, criteria for public reporting by school districts of their total foundation aid expenditures, and other requirements for purposes of preparation of contracts for excellence by certain specified school districts. Pages 9- of 33: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2008/feb6/pdfs/rules.pdf Title: Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12 Source: www.dos.state.ny.us NY Emergency Rule Extension 11/2007 P-12 Readopts, by emergency action effective November 25, 2007, the emergency rule adopted at the September 10, 2007 Regents meeting that added a new section 100.13 and amended 170.12 of the Commissioner's Regulations. http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2007/dec12/pdfs/rules.pdf Title: Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NY Adopted 07/2007 P-12 Establishes allowable programs and activities, criteria for public reporting by school districts of their total foundation aid expenditures, and other requirements for purposes of preparation of contracts for excellence by certain specified school districts. Pages 16-19 of 48: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/register/2007/aug15/pdfs/rules.pdf Title: Title 8 NYCRR Sections 100.13 and 170.12 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet TX Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 House Bill 3699 amends the Natural Resources Code and the Education Code to broaden the School Land Board's (SLB) authority to manage and control land, mineral and royalty interests, real estate investments, and other interests that are dedicated to the permanent school fund. The bill authorizes the SLB to designate funds received from the lands, interests, investments, and mineral estate for deposit in the real estate special fund account (RESF), rather than a special fund account as provided in previous law.  The bill expands the permissible uses of the RESF account and authorizes the SLB to confer with employees or third parties regarding investments and potential investments in real estate.  The bill provides the SLB with the option to appoint investment consultants or advisors to assist the board in investing, rather than appointing investment managers to invest, money in the special fund, and deletes certain qualification requirements for managers.  The bill also authorizes the SLB and the State Board of Education to make certain transfers to and from the RESF account. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB03699F.pdf Title: H.B. 3699 Source: http://www.legis.state.tx.us TX Signed into law 07/2007 P-12 From fiscal note: The bill would allow the state and political subdivisions of the state to follow state statutory modified accrual standards of accounting as described in the bill, if other accounting bases conflict with state law. The state or its political subdivisions could account for other post-employment benefits (OPEBs) on this statutory basis if generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) require accounting on any basis other than pay-as-you-go. The bill would have the practical impact of exempting those who choose the alternate accounting from requirements in Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) statement 45, and potentially some in GASB statement 43. GASB 45 requires governmental entities to account for OPEBs, in particular retiree health benefits, in a manner similar to methods used for pension benefits. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB02365F.pdf Title: H.B. 2365 Source: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/ NV Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to recalculate the basic support guarantee for Fiscal Year 2008-09 based upon a salary increase of 4.375 percent rather than 4 percent if the projected revenues from the local school support tax exceed a certain threshold. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/74th/Bills/AB/AB563_EN.pdf Title: A.B. 563 Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/ UT Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Allows a school district or charter school to include, with certain exceptions, foreign exchange students in the district's or school's membership and attendance count for the purpose of apportionment of state monies. http://le.utah.gov/~2007/bills/hbillenr/hb0160.htm Title: H.B. 160 Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/ NV Approved by voters 11/2006 P-12 Proposes 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/ CA Rejected by voters 07/2006 P-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 LA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Increases 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 IL Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Allows 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 IA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Extends 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 TX Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Relates 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 KS Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Defines "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 CO Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Concerns 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 AR Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Addresses 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/ AL Veto overridden: Legislature has overridden Governor's veto 03/2006 P-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/ CA Vetoed 09/2005 P-12 An act to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 41580) to Chapter 3.2 of Part 24 of the Education Code. Would create the School Transportation Block Grant to replace existing system of funding public school transportation in the state. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1101-1150/ab_1110_bill_20050907_enrolled.pdf Title: A.B. 1110 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov OK Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Budget bill funds public schools at $2.15 billion. Provided an increase of more than $145 million per year to boost teacher pay and benefits, as well as helping schools struggling with growing operational expenses. The increased appropriation includes $57.7 million to fund teacher pay increases, $32.8 million to provide full state funding for educators' health insurance, $9.9 million for support employees' health insurance and an extra $21.6 million that will go through the state's funding formula for school districts. Provides an average pay raise of $1,000 per year to teachers. It also includes funding for the state to cover 100 percent of the cost of teacher health insurance.Among other reforms, the bill includes $800,000 for the Student Tracking and Reporting pilot program, which will encourage schools to use technology to reduce paperwork on teachers and administrators.The budget bill also provides $500,000 for academic achievement awards to schools that demonstrate the highest scores and the greatest improvement in the state's Academic Performance Index. Also includes more money for education fundamentals: Another $3 million has been earmarked for third-grade reading remediation programs and $4 million has been provided for math programs. The $2.15 billion school budget is the largest in state history. Previously, the most money appropriated to public schools was $2.04 billion in the 2002 legislative session.http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2005-06HB/hb1020_enr.rtf Title: H.B. 1020 (budget provisions) Source: http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/house/news7622.html IN Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Establishes legislative intent that the state budget be reviewed comprehensively before the budgetary process for the next biennium begins in 2007. Asks the governor to direct the office of management and budget to thoroughly review the budget of each executive department agency and instrumentality and overall functions of the executive department of state government to find efficiencies that might yield significant cost savings. Requests that both the size and the scope of these agencies and functions be thoroughly reviewed. Establishes the government efficiency commission. Mandates the commission to: (1) Make recommendations to improve efficiency and reduce unnecessary costs associated with any board or commission.  (2) Review and make recommendations to the governor concerning each board or commission about the following:             (A) Whether the board or commission should be continued, reorganized, or combined with another board, commission, or state agency.             (B) Whether the board or commission should terminated or allowed to expire. (3) Make recommendations to reform K-12 education funding and budgeting as it relates to non-classroom expenditures so that adequate dollars are available for teacher training and classroom instruction. Requires the governor to review the recommendations made by the government efficiency commission and, by December 1, 2006, submit a report in an electronic format with recommendations for reform to the speaker of the house of representatives and the president pro tempore of the senate. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2005/HE/HE1001.1.html Title: H.B. 1001 (Section 255-256) Source: www.in.gov WV Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Postsec. The FY 06 Budget, passed in 2005, is $3.19 billion. A breakdown in approximate percentages goes as follows: Public Education = 51% at $1.6 billion of the General Revenue budget. Further funding for public education includes an additional $50.5 million, provided by lottery revenue. Other public education dollars include: - $450,000 to address low student enrollment. This appropriation entry complies with SB 604 and provides additional funding to counties, qualified by the State Superintendent, that are below 1,400 FTEs (Full Time Equivalents) or full time students per county. - $100,000 Hi-Y Youth in Government Higher Education = 9 % at $287.2 million of the General Revenue budget (1) this is a decrease of $19 million from FY 05 based on the Governor's recommended 5.5% cut in the budget for FY 06; but, (2) the Legislature restored 2.5% over the current year and included $4 million in peer equity funding in its final calculations. Further funding from lottery accounts allowed for an additional $42.9 million for Higher Ed. Other Higher Education/Education and the Arts dollars (under the Education Secretary's budget) include: - $800,000 Professional Development Collaborative (formerly the Teacher Education Partnership) - $300,000 Center for Professional Development (CPD)-Math Initiative (funds a 5 year plan to address student achievement in mathematics with collaboration of the education department to collaborate with the CPD to implement professional development regarding the math initiative. Higher Education Policy Commission (HEPC) Title: S.B. 604 Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Wrapup/2005/final/final.pdf CO Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Requires the state board to annually report to the legislature the total amount of federal funds received by the state board in the prior fiscal year, accounting how the funds were used, specifying the federal law or regulation governing the use of the federal funds, if any, and providing information on any flexibility the state board has in using the federal funds. http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/FB38088C4F083DE787256F8E00813440?Open&file=200_enr.pdf Title: S.B. 200 (Section 18) Source: www.leg.state.co.us AZ Vetoed 04/2005 P-12 Provides restrictions on desegregation funds for districts that, as of June 30, 2005, were under desegregation orders or an administrative agreement with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights directed toward remediating alleged or proven racial discrimination. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2498 Title: H.B. 2498 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us AZ Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Replaces the biennial reporting requirements for desegregation districts with an annual report that lists specific items to be reported on a district-wide and school-by-school basis beginning in FY 2006-07.  Districts that become subject to a court order or administrative agreement must submit the report by July 15 or within 90 days after the date of the court order or administrative agreement, whichever occurs first.  The reports must be submitted to the ADE, and the ADE must compile the information and submit copies to the Governor, President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Education committee chairmen in both houses. ·        Requires school district governing boards that budget for desegregation expenses to ensure that the desegregation expenses will: ·         Be educationally justifiable. ·         Result in equal educational opportunities for all pupils. ·         Be used to promote systemic and organizational changes within the school district. ·         Be used in accordance with the Arizona Academic Standards. ·         Be used to accomplish specific actions to remediate the violation as specified in the court order or administrative agreement. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=2497 Title: H.B. 2497 Source: www.azleg.state.az.us KS Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 P-12 Establishes the 2010 Commission. States that the commission shall cease to exist on December 31, 2010. Requires the commission to: (a) Conduct continuous and on-going monitoring of the implementation and operation of the school district finance and quality performance act and other provisions of law relating to school finance and the quality performance accreditation system; (b) evaluate the school district finance and quality performance act and determine if there is a fair and equitable relationship between the costs of the weighted components and assigned weightings; (c) determine if existing weightings should be adjusted; (d) determine if additional school district operations should be weighted; (e) review the amount of base state aid per pupil and determine if the amount should be adjusted; (f) evaluate the reform and restructuring components of the act and assess the impact thereof; (g) evaluate the system of financial support, reform and restructuring of public education in Kansas and in other states to ensure that the Kansas system is efficient and effective; (h) conduct other studies, as directed by the legislative coordinating council, relating to the improving, reforming or restructuring of the educational system and the financing thereof; (i) conduct hearings and receive and consider suggestions from teachers, parents, the department of education, the state board of education, other governmental officers and agencies and the general public concerning suggested improvements in the educational system and the financing thereof; (j) appoint advisory committees when deemed necessary. Such advisory committees shall conduct hearings and seek a wide variety of input from individuals and groups affected by and concerned with the quality, efficiency and cost of public elementary and secondary education in Kansas. Such individuals and groups shall include, but not be limited to, teachers, parents, students, the department of education, the state board of education, other governmental officers and agencies, professional educational organizations and associations, the business community, institutions of higher education, other persons who have an interest in the quality and efficiency of elementary and secondary education in Kansas and members of the general public interested in the improvement in the state's educational system and the financing thereof. (k) make any recommendation it deems is necessary to guide the legislature to fulfill goals established by the legislature in meeting its constitutional duties of the legislature to: (A) Provide for intellectual, educational, vocational and scientific improvement in public schools established and maintained by the state; and (B) make suitable provision for the finance of the educational interests of the state; (l) examine the availability of revenues to ensure adequate funding of elementary and secondary education in the state; (m) examine school district efficiencies and whether districts are using best practices to deliver a high quality level of services and programs; (n) examine school district consolidation and impediments thereto; (o) examine voluntary activities, including extracurricular activities, which affect educational costs; (p) monitor and evaluate associations and organizations that promote or regulate voluntary or extracurricular activities including, but not limited to, the Kansas state high school activities association; (q) conduct other studies, as directed by the legislature, relating to the improving, reforming or restructuring of the educational system and the financing thereof; (r) make and submit annual reports to the legislature on the work of the commission concerning recommendations of the commission relating to the improving, reforming or restructuring of the educational system and the financing thereof and other topics of study directed to the commission by the legislative coordinating council. Such report also shall include recommendations for legislative changes and shall be submitted to the legislature on or before December 31 of each year. Shifts responsibility for matters or issues relating to school finance from the legislative educational planning committee. Bill as enacted: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=38800 Fiscal note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=35742 Supplemental note: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-bills/showBill.do?id=37465 Title: H.B. 2247 (section 7-9) Source: www.kslegislature.org AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 States the purposes and sources of funds for the Educational Facilities Partnership Fund Account and the Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation Fund Account. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/sb877.pdf Title: S.B. 877 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us ND Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Provides an appropriation for eligible school districts receiving reduced amounts of state aid. The superintendent of public instruction shall use the first $119,190, or so much of that amount as is necessary, for the purpose of reimbursing eligible school districts that received reduced amounts of state aid. For the purposes of this subsection, an eligible school district is one that received a reduction in state aid during the second year of the 2003-05 biennium because the district's general fund levy fell below one hundred forty mills as the result of a reorganization or the dissolution of a contiguous district. The following affected districts listed are entitled to receive reimbursements: Velva 1 $24,355 TGU 60 93,514 Lewis and Clark 1,321 Title: H.B. 1311 Source: StateNet SD Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Repeals the appropriation of $3,006,960 from the state's General Fund to the Education Enhancement Trust Fund - contained in House Bill 1220, as previously enacted by the Eightieth Session (2005) of the South Dakota Legislature. Title: S.B. 224 Source: South Dakota Legislative Web Site ND Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Relates to the formula for calculating supplemental payments to high school districts; relates to property taxes, transportation levy, and high school tuition levy. http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-text/FAIC0200.pdf Title: H.B. 1032 Source: StateNet UT Signed into law 02/2005 P-12 Relates to minimum school program act amendments. This bill: < establishes a ceiling for the state contribution to the maintenance and operations portion of the Minimum School Program for fiscal year 2005-06 of $1,783,631,186; < establishes the value of the weighted pupil unit at $2,258; < appropriates $27,288,900 to the State Board of Education for fiscal year 2005-06 for school building aid programs for school districts; < directs the state superintendent to include certain expenditure data in an annual report to the governor and the Legislature; and < imposes a deadline for the authorization of a charter school in order to qualify for certain state funds. The superintendent's report must include (new requirements) a complete statement, by school district and charter school, of the amount of and percentage increase or decrease in expenditures from the previous year attributed to: (A) wage increases, with expenditure data for base salary adjustments identified separately from step and lane expenditures; (B) medical and dental premium cost adjustments; and (C) adjustments in the number of teachers and other staff. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2005/bills/hbillenr/hb0003.pdf Title: H.B. 3 Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us AR Signed into law 02/2005 P-12 Appropriates FY 2004-2005 emergency supplemental funds to department to disburse for grants and aid to state secondary vocational area centers. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb1073.pdf Title: H.B. 1073 Source: www.arkleg.state.ar.us MI Signed into law 01/2005 P-12 Relates to multisection school aid; provides the fiscal year 2004- 2005 year budget; amends appropriations from the state school aid fund and the school aid stabilization fund; amends provisions regarding special education and shared employment. Title: S.B. 1193 Source: StateNet IL Signed into law 10/2004 P-12 Amends the Common School Fund Article of the School Code. Provides for a grant to be paid to a school district if there has been an increase in a school districts' student population over the most recent 2 school years of over 1.5% in a district with over 10,000 pupils in average daily attendance or over 7.5% in any other district. If the appropriated money in any fiscal year is insufficient to pay all grants, then the amount appropriated shall be prorated among eligible districts. Provides penalties for intentionally reporting incorrect data. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-1042 Title: H.B. 766 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Requires the Controller to deduct from the next principal apportionment of a school district a specified amount based on the annual pupil enrollment of the class above a different prescribed number. Authorizes a district located in the counties of Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego or Ventura to claim class size reduction funding for 2003-04 based on enrollment counts before the October 2003 fires, if the district lost or exceeded enrollment due to the fires. This bill declares that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0301-0350/sb_311_bill_20040930_chaptered.pdf Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/SB_311_sign.pdf Title: S.B. 311 Source: California Legislative Web site MI Signed into law 09/2004 Postsec. Community College Makes appropriations for the state institutions of higher education and certain state purposes related to education for the fiscal year ending September 3.,2004; and for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0352.pdf Title: S.B. 1067 Source: StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Establishes block grants to be composed of funding for specified existing categorical education programs. Repeals dates of the Early Intervention for School Success Program. Establishes a pupil retention block grant, school safety consolidated block grants, teacher credentialing block grant, professional development block grant, a new targeted instructional improvement block grant and school library improvement block grant. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0801-0850/ab_825_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_825_sign.pdf Title: A.B. 825 Source: StateNet CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Deletes the date of repeal on the Instructional Materials Program and the contingency of program implementation funding on funding from the Annual Budget Act. Also makes technical changes to the appropriation to the Instructional Materials Fund. Appropriates $20,200,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education and, of that amount $5,000,000 is appropriated for transfer to the State Instructional Materials Fund for purposes of acquiring instructional materials, $15,000,000 is appropriated for allocation to county offices of education for review and monitoring of schools, and $200,000 is appropriated for purposes of implementing this act. The funds appropriated by the bill for purposes of acquiring instrucional materials and for review and monitoring activities are applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_550_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf Title: S.B. 550 (multiple provisions) Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Revises the procedures for receiving claims and for hearings on claims from local governmental agencies, including school district, for reimbursement of costs of state mandates with the Commission on State Mandates. Revises the definitions of terms related to the procedure and hearing and defines additional terms. Abolishes the State Mandates Claims Fund. Deletes the option of paying claims from the fund. Makes other technical changes and deletes obsolete references. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2851-2900/ab_2856_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf Signing message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/AB_2853_2855_2856_sign.pdf Title: A.B. 2856 Source: StateNet CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Consolidates the funding for programs aimed at promoting the development of teachers in specific areas, and establishes the Teacher Support and Development Act of 2005 to provide flexible professional development block grants to school districts. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually award the block grants from funding provided in the annual Budget Act. Provides for the block grant amounts to be calculated according to a specified formula and would require a school district to demonstrate that its staff development programs meet specified criteria prior to receiving a block grant. Requires the State Department of Education to conduct an evaluation to assess the impact of the act on teacher quality and pupil improvement and would require an interim report to be submitted to the Governor and the Legislature no later than January 1, 2007, and a final report to be submitted no later than January 1, 2009. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1601-1650/ab_1650_bill_20040826_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1650_veto.pdf Title: A.B. 1650 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov MI Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Provides Department of Education zero budget for fiscal year 2005. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0346.pdf Title: S.B. 1065 Source: StateNet CA Vetoed 09/2004 P-12 Authorizes, commencing with the 2006-07 fiscal year, home-to-school transportation programs to receive a state funding increase in lieu of an inflation or cost-of-living increase. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2451-2500/ab_2462_bill_20040824_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2462_veto.pdf Title: A.B. 2462 Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov AL Issued 08/2004 P-12 Postsec. Community College The governor issued Executive Order No. 02-2003 on January 30, 2003, creating the Governor's Commission of Education Spending. The Commission was to engage in a thorough examination of how education dollars have been spent in Alabama during the past ten years. http://www.governorpress.state.al.us/pr/ex-02-2003-01-30.asp The Highlights of the Initial Report focused on: (1) Management and Accountability Reforms for K-12; (2) Student Assessment and Accountability for K-12; (3) Management and Accountability Reforms for the Alabama College System; (4) Management and Accountability Reforms for University Governance; (4) Reforms in Terms of Public Employment; and (5) Education Trust Fund Accountability. The Working-Group Sessions (December 2003) made the following proposals: (1) Achieve the maximum savings possible from non-state and non-education agencies; (2) Freeze the state appropriations to PEEHIP at the Fiscal 2004 level; (3) Allocate higher education cutbacks to institutions; and (4) Allocation K-12 education cutbacks to school systems. http://www.alabama.gov/onlineservices/egov_pdfs/ESCReport11404.pdf Title: Executive Order No. 02-2003 Source: Alabama State Web site CA Signed into law, with line items vetoed 08/2004 P-12 Postsec. Community College Relates to revenue limit calculation factors for school districts and county superintendents of schools for specified fiscal years. Relates to apportionments and minimum funding to school districts and community college districts, funding for the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program, special education funding for non-public non-sectarian institutions. Requires dual admissions programs in State institutions of higher education. Relates to student loans and fees. (Line Item veto of small competitive grants program, Arts Work.) http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1108_bill_20040811_chaptered.html Title: S.B. 1108 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 08/2004 P-12 Community College Suspends the minimum funding obligation of school districts and community college districts. Requires the amount of money to be applied by the state for these district's support during the 2004-05 fiscal year to be calculated by subtracting a certain amount of funding that would otherwise be required to be applied for the support of these districts during the 2004-05 fiscal year if the suspension had not occurred. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1101-1150/sb_1101_bill_20040811_chaptered.html Title: S.B. 1101 Source: California Legislative Web site IL Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Amends the School Code. Relates to recomputing a general State aid claim. Provides for a qualifying reduction in equalized assessed valuation deduction. Amends provisions regarding the necessity to prorate claims that are approved but not paid in the current fiscal year. Provides that adjustments must not exceed a specified amount. Provides that approved prorated claims not paid in the current fiscal year may be resubmitted. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0845 Title: S.B. 2349 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site MI Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Increases the amount of funding for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, appropriated for the public school of the state from the General Fund. For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, there is appropriated for the public schools of this state and certain other state purposes relating to education the sum of $10,962,387,100.00 from the state school aid fund established by section 11 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 and the sum of $377,800,000.00 from the general fund. In addition, available federal funds are appropriated for each of those fiscal years. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0185.pdf Title: S.B. 1194 Source: StateNet LA Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Provides for early retirement for state employee retirement members with actuarial reduction of benefits; requires abolition of positions vacated by early retirement and permits reestablishment only as provided. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LRSO.PDF Title: H.B. 58 Source: StateNet MO Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Appropriates money for the expenses, grants, refunds, and distributions of the State Board of Education and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills041/biltxt/truly/HB1002T.HTM Title: H.B. 1002 Source: StateNet OK Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Makes appropriations to the state board; transfers funds to the Teachers' Retirement System; provides funds for an Internet school, parent training, advanced placement programs, alternate education, staff development and early intervention programs. Caps the number of employees at the State Department of Education for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005 at 400 FTE. Also targets numbers of employees within the 400 to specific areas (e.g., 87.75 for the Oklahoma Early Intervention Act; 1 to coordinate support personnel concerns). http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/house/ohorpage.htm Title: H.B. 2012 Source: http://www.lsb.state.ok.us CO Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Concerns the financing of public schools; relates to calculations of pupil enrollment; relates to charter school contracts. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2004a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/28517E5E9054E56887256E0400738CE5?Open&file=1397_enr.pdf Title: H.B. 1397 Source: Colorado Legislative Web site MS Signed into law 05/2004 Postsec. Community College Relates to Junior Colleges Administration appropriation. Title: S.B. 3121 Source: StateNet MS Signed into law 05/2004 Postsec. Community College Relates to Junior Colleges support appropriation. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/html/SB/3100-3199/SB3122PS.htm Title: S.B. 3122 Source: StateNet MS Signed into law 05/2004 Postsec. Community College Relates to a Institution of Higher Learning general support appropriation. Title: S.B. 3120 Source: StateNet VT Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 This act establishes an equalized pupil count for union and unified union school districts, removes the system of assessing member districts to fund union and unified union school districts, and directs the commissioner of education to send funding directly to union and unified union school districts. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2004/acts/ACT130.HTM Title: S.B. 315 Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us LA Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Relates to funds and funding; provides with respect to the Support Education in Louisiana First Fund. The monies in this fund shall be used only as provided in this bill and only in the amounts appropriated by the legislature. Requires that all unexpended and unencumbered monies in this fund at the end of each fiscal year shall remain in the fund. and shall retain their allocation for use and expenditure in accordance with the provisions this bill. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LL9V.PDF Title: S.B. 506 Source: StateNet MS Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Relates to an appropriation for the State Department of Education General Programs, Education Reform Act and Vocational Education. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/HB/1600-1699/HB1696SG.pdf Title: H.B. 1696 Source: StateNet MN To governor 05/2004 P-12 Relates to state government; appropriates money for prekindergarten through grade 12 education, including general education, education excellence, special programs, and facilities and technology; early childhood and family education, including prevention and self-sufficiency and lifelong learning; and health and human services. http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/slaws/2004/c272.html Title: H.F. 2867 Source: StateNet ME Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 The bill provides that by fiscal year 2009-10 the state share of kindergarten to grade 12 education funding, as described by essential programs and services, must be 55%. It also establishes a local cost share expectation for property tax years beginning on or after April 1, 2005. The Commissioner of Education shall annually notify each school administrative unit of its expectation. This expectation must decline over the period from fiscal year 2005-06 to fiscal year 2009-10. The expectation may not exceed 9.0 mills in fiscal year 2005-06. It may not exceed 8.0 mills in fiscal year 2009-10. The legislative body of a school administrative unit may not adopt a property tax rate that exceeds its mill expectation unless, in a vote separate from its adoption of the school budget, it votes to increase the property tax rate. The bill also places transportation operating costs into the essential programs and services funding formula. It also states that special education costs will be included in essential programs and services starting in fiscal year 2005-06. Beginning in fiscal year 2004-05, the Department of Education will provide training in state-approved guidelines for identification of special education students. The bill also places early childhood education program costs and vocational education program costs into essential programs and services no later than fiscal year 2007-08. Note Sec. 16: Basis for funding costs of education from kindergarten to grade 12. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning in fiscal year 2005-06, funding of the costs of education from kindergarten to grade 12 must be based on the cost of providing essential programs and services as described in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, chapter 606-B. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/ld_title.asp?ld=1924 Title: S.P. 761 Source: StateNet TN Signed into law 05/2004 P-12 Adds the Select Committee on the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation to education committees as committees reviewing governor's proposed appropriations for educational programs and purposes prior to final action by the finance, ways and means committees. Title: S.B. 2115 Source: StateNet TN Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Basic Education Program (BEP) - Provides that 40 percent of growth funds under the BEP are to be distributed to eligible LEAs by January 1 with the remainder distributed by the subsequent June 30. Title: S.B. 3349 Source: StateNet ID Signed into law 04/2004 Postsec. Community College Appropriates funds to the State Board of Education and the Board of Regents of the University of Idaho; requires the state board of education to track faculty, nonfaculty exempt and classified employees turnover; provides legislative intent regarding funding equity among the state's four-year institutions; specifies other expenditures. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/2004/H0768.html Title: H.B. 768 Source: Idaho Legislative Web site WV Signed into law 03/2004 Postsec. Makes a supplementary appropriation of public moneys out of the treasury from the balance of moneys remaining as an unappropriated balance in the state fund, general revenue, to higher education policy commission - higher education policy commission - system - control account, fund 0586, fiscal year 2005, organization 0442, supplements and amends the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005. Title: S.B. 1014 Source: StateNet ID Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Relates to the investment of permanent endowment funds to clarify market value allocation between the permanent endowment funds and the earnings reserve funds; establishes benchmark values to be annually modified for comparison with the current market value of the permanent endowment fund; provides for making up reducing transfers or appropriations which exceed a benchmark value. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1306.html#billtext Title: S.B. 1306 Source: Idaho Legislative Web site UT Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Creates a restricted account for the deposit of the earnings derived from the investment of the permanent State School Fund. Title: H.B. 78 Source: StateNet IA Vetoed 03/2004 P-12 Relates to education funding, providing for the establishment of the state percent of growth for purposes of the state school foundation program, making appropriations, and providing an applicability date. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=SF2124 and http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/80GA/Session.2/SJournal//sj040308.pdf#page=18 Title: S.F. 2124 Source: StateNet WY Signed into law 03/2004 P-12 Relates to the investment of state funds; modifies spending policy amounts from investments of permanent Wyoming mineral trust funds and the common school account within the permanent land fund. Title: H.B. 101 Source: StateNet SD Signed into law 02/2004 P-12 Postsec. Appropriations bill. Appropriates money to enhance the quality of education in the state; provides also for postsecondary education. Title: S.B. 150 Source: StateNet IL Veto Overridden: Restored Items Became Law. 11/2003 Postsec. Community College Amends appropriations to the Board of Higher Education, the Department of Public Health, for medical education scholarships, the Mathematics and Science Academy, the Student Assistance Commission, the Community College Board, the public universities and the State Universities Civil Service System. Title: H.B. 2671 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site IL Veto overridden: Restored items became law 11/2003 P-12 Makes appropriations to the State Board of Education for fiscal year 2004. Effective July 1, 2003. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=2663&GAID=3&DocTypeID=HB&LegID=5202&SessionID=3 Title: H.B. 2663 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site ME November 2003 Ballot 11/2003 P-12 Competing Measure: Do you want to lower property taxes and avoid the need for a significant increase in state taxes by phasing in a 55% state contribution to the cost of public education and by providing expanded property tax relief? http://www.state.me.us/sos/cec/elec/intent.pdf Title: Question 1B Source: Maine State Web site ME November 2003 Ballot 11/2003 P-12 Citizen Initiative: Do you want the State to pay 55% of the cost of public education, which includes all special education costs, for the purpose of shifting costs from the property tax to state resources? http://www.state.me.us/sos/cec/elec/intent.pdf Title: Question 1A Source: Maine State Web site ME November 2003 Ballot 11/2003 P-12 Allows voter to vote against both the Citizen Initiative (Question 1A) and the Competing Measure (Question 1B). http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/intent.pdf Title: Question 1C Source: Maine State Web site CA Vetoed 10/2003 P-12 Repeals existing law requiring a school district to offer supplemental instruction to pupils in grades 2 to 9, inclusive, who are recommended for retention or who are retained in the same grade. Existing law requires the superintendent of public instruction to notify the director of finance if there is a deficiency of funding for purposes of certain supplemental instructional programs. Amended law requires notification 30 days before it is necessary to use available funding for supplemental instruction. SB 19 will become effective only if AB 52 is enacted and becomes effective by January 1, 2004. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0051-0100/ab_52_bill_20030908_enrolled.html Title: A.B. 52 Source: California Legislative Web site CA Signed into law 08/2003 P-12 Postsec. Community College Relates to reimburse rates under the Child Care and Development Services Act, revenue limits for school districts and county superintendents of schools for 2003-04 and 2004-05 fiscal years, school district's school building maintenance account, school district and charter school funding for supplemental instruction, community college fee increase, teacher's incentive programs, community college funding, mental health services for special education pupils. Revenue limitations impacts including eliminating of the one time $10,000 merit award and fee assistance for teachers attaining National Certification, delays the Kindergarten Readiness Pilot Program until 2006-07 and prohibits loan assumptions warrants for the 2003-04 fiscal year for the Graduate Assumption Program of Loans for Education. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1751-1800/ab_1754_bill_20030811_chaptered.html Title: A.B. 1754 Source: California Legislative Web site IL Signed into law 07/2003 P-12 Amends the School Code concerning interfund transfers. Provides that certain limitations on transfers, one of which requires the transfer to be for the purpose of meeting one-time, non-recurring expenses and the other of which requires the transfer to be made to the fund most in need, do not apply from July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2005. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=765&GAID=3&DocTypeID=HB&LegID=1204&SessionID=3 Title: H.B. 765 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site IL Signed into law 07/2003 Postsec. Amends the State Finance Act. Requires appropriations for higher education to be by separate line items and not by lump sum. Provides that each state-supported institution of higher learning shall provide a financial report to the Governor and the General Assembly. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=1543&GAID=3&DocTypeID=HB&LegID=2325&SessionID=3 Title: H.B. 1543 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site LA Signed into law 07/2003 P-12 Postsec. Requires total dollar amount of reductions to appropriations from the Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund resulting from budget adjustments to avoid a deficit to be apportioned equally between the appropriations to the board of regents and the state board of elementary and secondary education. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB573&doctype=BT Title: H.B. 573 Source: www.legis.state.la.us CA Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Reduces the appropriation to the State Department of Education for local assistance for purposes of the Targeted Instructional Improvement Grant Program and appropriates the new amount for the 2003-04 fiscal year for the program. Declares the funds appropriated by these provisions would be deemed to be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for the 2003-04 fiscal year for school districts and communications college districts. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_1040&sess=CUR&house=B&author=committee_on_budget_and_fiscal_review Title: S.B. 1040 Source: California Legislative Web site OR Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Directs State Treasurer to transfer moneys from Education Stability Fund to State School Fund; makes finding that economic and revenue forecast conditions required by Constitution to make transfer have been met; prohibits State Treasurer from diverting earnings from Education Stability Fund for purposes of making transfer or from diverting moneys to be deposited in or from reducing amount of moneys in the Growth Account for purposes of making transfer. Title: H.B. 3642 Source: StateNet CT Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Requires the State Prevention Council to determine long-term goals, strategies and outcome measures to promote the health and well being of children and families including; early intervention strategies, an increase in healthy pregnant women and newborns, a decrease in child neglect and abuse, an increase in school-ready children, an increase in children who succeed in school, a decrease in children who are unsupervised after school and a decrease in juvenile suicide and crime. http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2003/act/Pa/2003PA-00145-R00SB-00886-PA.htm Title: S.B. 886 Source: Connecticut Legislative Web site IL Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Postsec. Community College Creates the FY2004 Budget Implementation (Education) Act with the purpose of the Act to make changes relating to education that are necessary to implement the State's FY2004 budget. Makes changes to the State aid formula provisions by increasing the foundation level of support and changing the amount of and how a supplemental general State aid grant is calculated. Exempts gifted education from block grant funding. Makes changes concerning reimbursement to community college districts for classes for adults and youths whose schooling has been interrupted. Makes changes concerning which courses are eligible for reimbursement under the Public Community College Act. Adds requirements that a community college district must meet for equalization funding. Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act to repeal a Section concerning Illinois Future Teacher Corps Scholarships. Renames the ITEACH Teacher Shortage Scholarship Program the Illinois Future Teacher Corps Program, and makes other changes (including who may receive a scholarship, the scholarship amount, and where a recipient must agree to teach). http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=744&GAID=3&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=3589&SessionID=3 Title: S.B. 744 Source: Illinois Legislative Web site CO Partial veto 05/2003 P-12 Concerns the procedures for the funding of public schools, including adjustments to the district size factor, minimum per pupil funding, at-risk student calculation; temporary reduction of number of children participating on the Colorado Preschool Program; changes in kindergarten funding including repeal of full-day kindergarten for unsatisfactory schools, reduction of full-day kindergarten component of preschool program, directions for use of federal funds for kindergarten programs; repeals funding for new on-line students approved by legislature in 2002; amends law regarding capital construction funding for school districts and charter schools; and makes an related appropriations in connection therewith. Governor vetoed section 43 of the bill related to kindergarten programs and two appropriation amendments. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/C9D735028416E02F87256C5A0066CD5A?Open&target=/2003a/inetcbill.nsf/billsummary/B2A9CC94F12AE86687256C4F00525F07 http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/C9D735028416E02F87256C5A0066CD5A?Open&file=248_enr.pdf http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/lcsstaff/schfin/SummaryMemoSB03-248.pdf Title: S.B. 248 Source: Colorado Legislative Web site NV Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Makes supplemental appropriation to State Distributive School Account in State General Fund for unanticipated shortfall in Fiscal Year 2002- 2003. Title: A.B. 253 Source: StateNet CA Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Postsec. Repeals the Teacher Recruitment Initiative Program, administered by the Sacramento County Office of Education, which awards competitive grants to operate regional recruitment centers that focus on recruiting teachers to low-performing schools. Makes the Governor's Scholarship Programs inoperative as of June 30, 2003. States the legislative intent that the 2003-04 Budget Act will include $10 million less for the Cal Grant Program in order to reflect a baseline adjustment in the number of students actually accepting awards and the award amounts.Repeals the statutory requirement that any Proposition 98 maintenance factor which may be accruing be repaid in a single fiscal year (the 2003-04 fiscal year). http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sbx1_28&sess=CUR&house=S&author=committee_on_budget_and_fiscal_review Title: S.B. 28 Source: California Legislative Web site OK Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Requires the legislature to fund common education at least 25 days in advance of the deadline for school districts to notify teachers of hiring decisions for the next school year, not to be later than April 1. Title: H.B. 1247 Source: Session Overview, June 2003 SC Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 04/2003 P-12 Authorizes the adjutant generals office to furlough state-funded Full-time Equivalent Enrollments during fiscal year 2002-2003 under specific conditions; includes classified and unclassified employees. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess115_2003-2004/prever/320_20030327.htm Title: S.B. 320 Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net MS Vetoed 04/2003 P-12 Creates a special fund in the State Treasury to be known as the 2004 Education Contingency Fund which shall be expended for public education purposes; directs the state treasurer from July 1, 2003, until July 1, 2004, to transfer to the 2004 Education Contingency Fund a monthly sum from those special funds in the treasury that retain their interest and investment earnings. Title: H.B. 1036 Source: StateNet UT Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 This act modifies the State System of Public Education Code by providing funding for the Minimum School Program and school building aid programs. This act establishes a ceiling for the state contribution to the Minimum School Program for fiscal year 2003-04 of $1,611,343,274, which includes a one-time appropriation of $5,000,000 for classroom supplies. This act establishes the value of the weighted pupil unit at $2,150. This act appropriates $27,288,900 for school building aid programs. This act establishes the maximum funding level for the School LAND Trust Program. This act dedicates a portion of the interest and dividends received from the investment of monies in the Permanent State School Fund for teachers' classroom supplies. Addresses the funding for charter schools. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2003/bills/hbillenr/hb0003.pdf Title: H.B. 3 Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us WV Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Appropriates the state surplus for fiscal year 2003 -- part of which is appropriated to the Department of Education and the Arts. http://129.71.164.29/Bill_Text_HTML/2003_SESSIONS/1X/House/H_BILLS/HB101-200/hb102%20enr.htm#HD0 Title: H.B. 102 Source: West Virginia Legislature WV Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Relates to supplementing, amending, and increasing items of the existing appropriations from the balance of moneys remaining as an unappropriated balance to the department of tourism, department of education, lottery education fund and higher education fund. H.B. 103 moved surplus dollars to the Office of the Governor and the department of education. http://129.71.164.29/Bill_Text_HTML/2003_SESSIONS/1X/House/H_BILLS/HB101-200/hb104%20enr.htm#HD0 Title: H.B. 104, H.B. 103 Source: West Virginia Legislature WV Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 An Act supplementing, amending, reducing and increasing items of the existing appropriations from the state fund, general revenue, from the state department of education-state aid to schools, to the state department of education, all supplementing and amending the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003. http://129.71.164.29/Bill_Text_HTML/2003_SESSIONS/1X/House/H_BILLS/HB101-200/1X_2003_HB101Frm.htm Title: H.B. 101 Source: West Virginia Legislature MS Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Relates to state classroom supply funds; clarifies method of distribution and administration of. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2003/html/HB/0600-0699/HB0663SG.htm Title: H.B. 663 Source: StateNet UT Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Establishes the General Fund Budget Reserve Account and sets processes and limits. According to the fiscal note, provisions of this bill require a transfer of 25 percent of the year end Uniform School Fund surplus to a Restricted Account - Education Budget Reserve Account. Based on the average Uniform School Fund surplus, this bill could result in a transfer of surplus Uniform School Fund of up to $4,000,000 annually. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2003/bills/hbillenr/hb0027.htm Title: H.B. 27 Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us SD Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Increases the per student allocation in the state aid to education formula. Title: S.B. 170 Source: StateNet CO Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Concerns the amount of general fund appropriation for the states share of districts total program funding required to be made to be in compliance with the Constitution; makes provisions regarding public school finance.http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/pubhome.nsf Title: S.B. 195 Source: State legislative web site OR Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 The Legislative Assembly finds that the March 2003 quarterly economic and revenue forecast issued on February 28, 2003, by the Office of Economic Analysis of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services met the conditions described in section 4 (6)(a)(C), Article XV of the Oregon Constitution, for the 2001-2003 biennium. (2) Based on the findings under subsection (1) of this section and in addition to and not in lieu of the moneys transferred under section 4 (9), Article XV of the Oregon Constitution, pursuant to section 4 (6), Article XV of the Oregon Constitution, the State Treasurer shall transfer moneys from the Education Stability Fund established under section 4 (4)(d), Article XV of the Oregon Constitution, and ORS 348.696 to the State School Fund established under ORS 327.008. (3) The state treasurer shall make the transfer of moneys required under subsection (2) of this section on April 1, 2003, and May 1, 2003. (4) The total amount of moneys that the state treasurer shall transfer pursuant to subsections (2) and (3) of this section shall equal $112,000,000. (5) Moneys transferred under this section may be used in the manner provided by ORS 327.008 for moneys in the State School Fund. http://pub.das.state.or.us/LEG_BILLS/PDFs/AESB855.pdf Title: S.B. 855 Source: http://pub.das.state.or.us/ OK Signed into law 02/2003 P-12 Relates to the Constitutional Reserve Fund; makes an appropriation to the Department of Education; states purpose; provides an effective date; declares an emergency. Appropriates to the state board $25,486,165.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary for the financial support of public schools. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04HB/hb1240_enr.rtf Title: H.B. 1240 Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us AZ Approved by voters 11/2002 P-12 Postsec. Community College (HCR 2002 OF 2002) Proposes a Constitutional Amendment; Relates to school and community college district expenditure limitations. Exempts funds received from the sales tax for education passed by voters in 2000 and funds received from the Permanent School Trust Fund from K-12 school districts' aggregate expenditure limitation. (http://www.sosaz.com/election/2002/info/pubpamphlet/english/prop104.htm) Title: Proposition 104 Source: Arizona Election Services LA Approved by voters 11/2002 P-12 (ACT 1236-200, HB 507) Amends the Constitution to authorize the legislature to establish procedures determining projected deficits and budget adjustments; limits reductions to the Minimum Foundation Program; exempts from reductions revenues dedicated or pledged as security for bonds, the severance tax and royalty allocations to parishes, retirement contributions, the Louisiana Education Quality Trust Fund and the Millennium Trust. Title: Amendment 3 Source: Louisiana Elections Division Web site MT Signed into law 08/2002 P-12 Reduces the General Fund shortfall in revenue by implementing pay and benefit adjustments for state employees for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003; includes legislative branch, consumer counsel, judiciary, Office of Budget and Program Planning, OBPP-Teacher Pay Plan. http://www.ecs.org/html/offsite.asp?document=http://leg.state.mt.us/ http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/specsess/0802/FNPDF/HB0003.pdf Title: H.B. 3 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MT Signed into law 08/2002 P-12 Reduces the General Fund shortfall in revenue by temporarily eliminating the revenue dedicated to the School Technology Fund; includes income produced from the annual timber harvest on common school trust lands. http://www.ecs.org/html/offsite.asp?document=http://leg.state.mt.us/ http://data.opi.state.mt.us/bills/specsess/0802/FNPDF/HB0004.pdf Title: H.B. 4 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OR Signed into law 08/2002 P-12 Changes Education Endowment Fund to Educational Stability Fund; allows state treasurer to divert funds from and reduce funds in accounts in Education Stability Fund for purpose of making constitutionally required transfer of funds to State School Fund. Title: H.B. 4052C Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MD Signed into law 07/2002 P-12 Establishes legislative intent that programs that received funding in the FY03 budget be funded in future state budgets. Programs are: Gifted and Talented Summer Center; Destination ImagiNation; Disruptive Youth (Annapolis Roads Middle School); Center for Educational Progress; Food Services; Science and Mathematics Initiative; Maryland Technology Academy; Education Modernization Initiative; Challenge Grants; Reconstitution; School Performance Recognition; Staff Development Centers; and Judith P. Hoyer Early Child Care and Education Enhancement. Also establishes legislative intent that specified discretionary programs funded in FY 03 be consolidated into either the newly established foundation program or one of three programs for special needs students established under S.B. 856 (compensatory, special education, and LEP) and not be funded in future state budgets. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0856e.rtf Title: S.B. 856 Source: mlis.state.md.u SC SENATE override line item veto Nos. 2. 06/2002 P-12 Postsec. Requires funding equal to 1994-95 appropriation to be appropriated to the state department annually to offset any reduction suffered by districts due to a change in the distribution of employee contribution funds. Provides that in the event of an EIA revenue shortfall, lapsed funds remaining after EIA purposes must be distributed to districts for funding buildings and exempts EIA appropriations for teacher salaries and benefits from reductions to offset an official EIA revenue shortfall. Requires state board to establish a task force comprised of superintendents, principals, teachers, parents, school board members, and representatives of business and industry, including tourism-related industries no later than July 1, 2002. This task force to the extent possible is to be equally divided among proponents of existing or earlier starting dates for schools, proponents of later starting dates for schools, including proponents for dates after Labor Day, and persons who legitimately have no preferences. Also requires districts to provide advanced placement courses in all secondary schools which enroll an adequate number of academically talented students to support the course. Part II concerns public higher education: Each four-year campus of each state-supported public institution of higher learning must have equal representation on all formal and informal councils, advisory groups, committees, and task forces of the commission. Independent four-year colleges must have representation on all formal and informal committees and commissions dealing with higher education statewide issues. Also addresses instate tuition for certain students. Beginning with school year 2002-2003, the annual amount of a LIFE Scholarship for eligible resident students attending a four-year independent institution must be the cost of attendance up to a maximum of the average annual cost of tuition at the state's four-year public institutions of higher learning in the corresponding academic year. In addition, beginning with school year 2002-2003, eligible resident students attending two-year independent institutions may not receive an annual LIFE scholarship of more than the maximum cost of tuition at two-year regional public institutions for thirty credit hours a year or its equivalent." Title: H.B. 4879 Source: http://www.ecs.org/html/offsite.asp?document=http://www.scstatehouse.net/ MA Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Provides for local government workforce reduction through an early retirement incentive program for qualified employees, including school employees. http://www.state.ma.us/legis/bills/house/ht05007.htm Title: H.B. 5007 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NE GOVERNOR'S veto overridden by LEGISLATURE. 04/2002 P-12 LB 898's intent is to help address the budget shortfall facing Nebraska for the current biennium. LB 898 would increase the local effort rate for FY 2002-03 and beyond, so that it is only seven and one-half cents below the maximum levy, rather than ten cents. Currently, the local effort rate under a one-dollar maximum levy would be ninety cents. LB 898 increases the local effort rate to ninety-two and one-half cents. LB 898 reduces state appropriations by approximately $20.5 million. The bill also allows school districts to exceed the levy limitation with a three-fourths majority vote of the school board by an amount that is the difference between the amount of state aid that would have been provided without the changes made in LB 898. Title: L.B. 898 Source: www.unicam.state.ne.us/index.htm NE Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 LB 1172 is the Public Elementary and Secondary Student Fee Authorization Act. The act provides that a school or an educational service unit (ESU) may collect fees or require students to provide equipment or attire for the following purposes: extracurricular activities; admission fees for spectators at extracurricular activities and transportation charges for participants; certain postsecondary education costs; certain transportation costs; reproduction costs for students files or records; reimbursement for damaged or lost property; before and after school or prekindergarten services; summer school or night school; and breakfast and lunch programs. Students may be required to furnish certain personal or consumable items and clothing for specified courses and activities. A school store may be operated. Schools may require students to furnish musical instruments for optional music courses that are not extracurricular activities, if the use of an instrument is provided free of charge for students qualifying for free or reduced price lunches. Current law allowing a fee for eye protective devices is rewritten to require schools to provide the devices free of charge. Entities charging fees pursuant to the act are required to have a policy to waive fees for students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. School boards must annually hold a public hearing on the student fee policy and adopt a policy to be published in the student handbook. A student fee fund shall be established to deposit fees received from extracurricular activities, postsecondary education costs and summer and night school costs. Fees deposited into the fund shall be used for the purposes for which they were collected. http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/Legal/SLIP_LB1172.pdf Title: L.B. 1172 Source: http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/index.htm OR Vetoed 03/2002 P-12 Allows school districts and programs that receive grant funds to use funds for any educational purpose. Title: H.B. 4036B Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OR Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Set procedures for preparation of ballot title, financial estimate, and explanatory statement for House Joint Resolution of (2002 Special Session) which proposes a Constitution Amendment to change education endowment fund to education stability fund; specifies conditions under which moneys may be appropriated from principal of fund. Title: H.B. 4032B, H.B. 4041B Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet OR Vetoed 02/2002 P-12 Allows school districts and programs that receive grant funds to use funds for any educational purpose. Title: H.B. 4015A Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AL To governor 12/2001 P-12 Reduces state appropriations from the Education Trust Fund by by 3.85 percent for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002. Title: S.B. 30D Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 10/2001 P-12 Requires the superintendent of schools of each county to annually present a report regarding fiscal solvency of any district with a disapproved budget, qualified interim certification or negative interim certification, or that has been determined at any time to be in a position of fiscal uncertainty. Authorizes a review or audit if the county superintendent has reason to believe that fraud or other illegal fiscal practices may have occurred. Title: A.B. 139 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CO Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Creates the state education fund and specifies how the amount of revenues to be deposited in the fund is to be derived; defines the terms "categorical programs", "federal taxable income, as modified by law," "inflation" and total state funding for all categorical programs. Title: S.B. 204 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AL Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Authorizes the Alabama Public School and College Authority to sell and issue eighty-two million dollars aggregate principal amount of bonds, in addition to all other bonds previously issued by the authority. Title: S.B. 626 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AL Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Postsec. Appropriates 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, 2002. See the attached budget below. Title: H.B. 307 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CO Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Creates the State Education Fund and 2 accounts within the fund; provides for appropriation of moneys in the fund to comply with the mandatory education funding requirements; explains the annual increase requirements for the legislature to increase annual funding to school districts; requires school districts to submit a 10 year plan on the use of such increased funding; authorizes grants to low performing schools based on the school report care for the 2001-02 budget year. Title: S.B. 82 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MT Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 Revises laws governing dedicated revenue and statutory appropriations; provides for the deposit of state school fund revenue in the state special revenue fund; appropriates timber harvest funds to schools for technology acquisition. Title: H.B. 41 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AZ Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 This bill creates a fund for extraordinary special education cost. Local district may apply to this fund if they face high special ed. cost. In addition the states base funding number was adjusted downward. Title: H.B. 2634 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet AZ Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Requires an election authorizing the use by school districts of Impact Aid Revenue Bonds; specifies the dates such election may be held; allows school districts to issue such bonds; provides for the method of securing the bonds; states the use of such bonds; provides procedures for the issuing, debt service and interest of such bonds. Title: H.B. 2440 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CO Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 This bill makes adjustments in the school aid formula including the addition of funding for pre-school programs. The full text of the bill is below. Title: S.B. 129 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CO Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Concerns plans to use the constitutionally mandated increase in State funding for public schools to be used for specific and accountable purposes to improve public schools such as class size, student achievement and charter school funding. Title: H.B. 1232 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MS Governor's veto overridden by HOUSE 03/2001 P-12 Provides that until fiscal year 2006, all of the State share of oil and gas severance taxes shall be appropriated for the support of the minimum education or adequate education program; clarifies that such proceeds shall not be considered State general funds for purposes of statutory limits on legislative appropriations. Title: S.B. 2680 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CO Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Directs the State Auditor or the auditor's designee to conduct records management audits in all departments, institutions, and agencies of state government, including educational institutions and the judicial and legislative branches to determine if such agencies are managing records in compliance with established administrative and technical procedures. Title: H.B. 1009 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CO Unofficially approved by Voters 11/2000 P-12 AMENDMENT 23 Amends the State Constitution; concerns increased funding for preschool through 12th-grade public education; requires the statewide base per-pupil funding for public education and funding for specifically defined categorical programs to grow annually by at least the rate of inflation plus one percentage point for fiscal years 2001-02 through 2010-11, and annually by at least the rate of inflation for fiscal years thereafter. Title: V. 10 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet ID Approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (HJR 1, 2000) Amends the State Constitution of Idaho relating to the Public School Fund; changes the name of the Public School Fund to the Public School Permanent Endowment Fund. Title: V. 1 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CO Rejected by Voters 11/2000 P-12 REFERENDUM F (SB 4, 2000) Asks whether the State of Colorado shall be permitted to annually retain up to a specified amount of the state revenues in excess of the constitutional limitation on state fiscal year spending for the 1999-2000 fiscal year, and for four succeeding fiscal years, for the purpose of funding science and math grants for school districts to improve academic performance, notwithstanding any restriction on spending, revenues, or appropriations. Title: V. 6 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet UT Unofficially approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 Relates to forfeiture of assets and property; establishes uniform procedures for the forfeiture of property; forbids forfeiture against innocent owners; permits law enforcement officials to seize contraband and the proceeds and instrumentalities of crime; provides that all property, assets, money or other things of value which are lawfully seized and forfeited be sold or auctioned and all monies which result be deposited in the Uniform School Fund. Title: V. 2 Ballot Initiative Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CO On 11/07/2000 ballot 07/2000 P-12 (Referendum F SB 4); Asks the question shall the state of Colorado be permitted to annually retain up to a specified amount of the state revenues in excess of the constitutional limitation on state fiscal year spending for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and for four succeeding fiscal years for the purpose of funding performance grants for school districts to improve academic performance, notwithstanding any restriction on spending, revenues, or appropriations. Title: V. 6; (NEW BILL) Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet DE Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Establishes a Public Education School Library Fund. Title: S.B. 429 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Community College Chapter No. 44; Provides that, contingent upon the passage of the Smaller Classes, Safer Schools and Financial Accountability Act at the 11/07/00, General Election, as an alternative, the governing board of a school district or community college district, may, pursuant to a 2/3 vote of the governing board, pursue the authorization and issuance of bonds by a 55% vote of the electorate, at primary or general elections, subject to certain additional requirements. Title: A.B. 1908 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet HI Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Authorizes the Department of Education (DOE) to retain and expend a portion of all indirect overhead reimbursements for discretionary grants; establishes a federal grants search and application revolving fund; provides the DOE with autonomy over the administration of its trust funds; prohibits federal impact aid received by the DOE from being returned to the general fund; allows excess federal impact aid to be spent by the DOE for the purposes of the school-based budgeting program. Title: H.B. 1873 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Relates to instructional materials requirements and school boards; prescribes the duty of school boards to provide instructional materials; eliminates requirements for providing weighted and unweighted aggregations; changes reference to Education Commissioner regarding certain duties in selecting and adopting instructional materials; eliminates condition for rejecting bids; eliminates optional escalator clause in certain contracts. Title: S.B. 850 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Amends the School Code; prohibits the State Board of Education from making audit adjustments to general state aid claims paid in fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002 based upon the claimant's failure to provide a minimum of 5 clock hours of daily instruction to students in an alternative education program; prohibits the audit adjustments based upon the claimant's provision of service to non-resident students in an alternative education program without charging tuition. Title: H.B. 2917 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet FL Vetoed 05/2000 P-12 Relates to school district revenue; limits the ability of counties to levy school impact fees; provides for the distribution to school boards of certain funds appropriated in the General Appropriations Act; provides a procedure by which counties may amend a prior year's budget. Title: H.B. 2179 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet MT Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Reduces property taxes by increasing direct state aid to school districts; clarifies that the amount of motor vehicle disposition attributable to certain levies is a local government reimbursement; provides increased state funding. Title: H.B. 4A Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet NE Vetoed 04/2000 P-12 Relates to School Finance; changes the calculation of local effort rate; adjusts levy amounts. Title: L.B. 1107 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Died 03/2000 P-12 Postsec. Community College PROPOSITION 26; Authorizes schools, community college districts, and county education offices that evaluate safety, class size, information technology needs to issue bonds for construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or replacement of school facilities if approved by majority of applicable district or county voters. Prohibits bond use for teacher, administrator salaries, other operating expenses and accountability requirements. Title: V. 15 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet CA Passed 03/2000 P-12 PROPOSITION 20; Relates to the State Lottery. Title: V. 2 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Authorizes the issuance of special license plates with a design incorporating an apple, representing teachers and education; designates an additional fee of $ 25 to be paid to the State Treasury and distributed to the Department of Education to purchase textbooks for use in public schools. Title: S.B. 413 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet