From the ECS State Policy Database School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services

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 MN P-12 Staffing for Student Support Services H.F. 630 Requires the commissioner of education to develop and submit to the legislature recommendations for providing access to licensed student support services, including school counselors, psychologists, nurses, social workers, and mental health professionals, thro... More... ME Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 Regional School Units & Capital Construction H.P. 335 For a municipality that is part of a school administrative district that was reformulated as a regional school unit, if the commissioner finds that at least 2/3 of the votes validly cast in the municipality are in the affirmative, the commissioner is to notify... More... WV Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 Schools Operated by Multiple Districts H.B. 3160 Relates to joint establishment, maintenance and operation of school by two or more adjoining counties. Requiring formal agreement for apportionment of acquisition costs. Provides for joint governing partnership board pilot initiative. Establishes limitations a... More... IA Signed into law 04/2013 P-12 Shared Operational Fundations H.F. 472 From the fiscal note: Creates new supplementary weighting provisions for shared optional functions. Maintains and expands the current list of shared operational functions that are eligible for the supplementary weighting. School districts and area education ag... More... MT Signed into law 03/2013 P-12 Multiple District Cooperatives S.B. 291 Revises law related to multiple district cooperatives. Requires agreements to include provisions for dissolution of the cooperative, including the conditions under which dissolution may occur and the disposition of any remaining funds that had been transferred... More... AR Adopted 07/2012 pre-K-12 Rules Governing Education Service Cooperatives AR ADC 005.01.24-1.00 to AR ADC 005.01.24-31.00 Authorizes the State Board of Education (BOE) to establish a statewide system of not more than fifteen multicounty education service cooperatives of school districts to be intermediate service units in the state's elementary and secondary education system and ... More... PA Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Open Campus Initiatives H.B. 1901 - Sections 1501-G through 1508-G New Article XV-G authorizes open campus initiatives between school districts. Defines as a cooperative agreement between districts which allows students to participate in courses not currently available in their resident district. Courses offered can be delive... More... MN Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Joint School District Pilot Program S.F. 946 Establishes a five-year pilot project to allow groups of school districts to collaborate in providing innovative education programs and activities and sharing district resources. Directs groups of two or more interested school districts to collaborate with sc... More... MA Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Accountability and Oversight of Education Collaboratives S.B. 2105 Defines an education collaborative as a written agreement to provide shared programs and services, including instructional, administrative, facility, community or any other services entered into by two or more school committees of cities, towns and regional sc... More... IA Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Regional Academies H.F. 645 - Multiple Sections Amends regional academies. Intead of serving 9-12th grade student, such academies are allowed to serve 7th-12-grade students. Authorizes a district establishing a regional academy to collaborate and partner with, enter into an agreement or contract with one or... More... OH Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Educational Service Centers H.B. 153 - Educational Service Centers Authorizes an educational service center's governing board to task an executive committee of the governing board with performing specified actions. Provides that the appointed members of an educational service center governing board may be representative of th... More... OH Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Cooperative Educational Programs at Community Schools H.B. 153 - Cooperative Educational Programs at Community Schools Permits community schools to enter into agreements for joint or cooperative establishment and operation of any educational program. Provides that except as otherwise provided in 3321.01(H), no fees or tuition may be charged for students participating in the pr... More... TN Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Collaboration, City and District Operations S.B. 1602 Permits a city and a special school district with coterminous boundaries to specify by contract that city funding for the district shall be used half for district operations and half for issuance of bonds and, upon agreement of the city legislative body and th... More... NV Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Shared Services A.B. 551 Requires the board of trustees of each school district in this state to assess the feasibility of sharing services, functions and personnel with other school districts of this state.This bill also authorizes a school district to join in the contract of anothe... More... OK Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 School Consolidation Assistance Fund H.B. 2115 Allows expenditure from School Consolidation Assistance Fund to school districts that have entered into a mutual contract for a superintendent; establishes amount of assistance, including maximum. Total assistance paid over three years from the School Consoli... More... MT Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Revenues, Shared Services, Reporting S.B. 329 Excerpts from the fiscal note: SB 329, as amended, increases the basic and per-ANB entitlements for K-12 public schools by 1.1% in FY 2012 and by 0.63% in FY 2013. The bill eliminates the 0.76% growth factor on school block grants after FY 2011 and retains oil... More... ND Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Regional Education Associations S.B. 2150 - Multiple Provisions Rewrites approval requirements and core services requirements. Requires regional education association to offer coordination and facilitation of professional development activities for teachers and administrators; supplementation of technology support services... More... CT Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 School Boards May Jointly Purchase Employee Health Insurance H.B. 5424 Allows two or more boards of education to jointly purchase health insurance for their employees. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/ACT/Pa/pdf/2010PA-00174-R00HB-05424-PA.pdf... More... CT Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Boards of Education Cooperative Arrangement H.B. 5336 Establishes a grant in fiscal year 2012 to any municipality whose board of education makes a cooperative arrangement with at least one other board of education to provide school transportation that results in a savings in fiscal year 2011. The grant is in addi... More... CA Signed into law 10/2009 P-12 Sharing of Real Property and Buildings A.B. 1080 Authorizes a school district to enter into leases and agreements relating to real property and buildings to be used jointly by the district and a local government agency. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1051-1100/ab_1080_bill_20091011_chaptered... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Learning Environments Demonstrating Innovation H.B. 1 - Section 3306.50, 3306.51, 3306.52, 3306.53, 3306.54, 3306.55, 3306.56, 3306.57 and 3306.58 Partially from the DOE summary of H.B. 1: Establishes the Harmon Commission to designate, upon application, individual classrooms as creative learning environments. Provides that designation as a creative learning environment must be based on a determination t... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Taxing District to Jointly Fund Special Education Services H.B. 1 - Section 3313.83 Authorizes two or more school boards in a county with a population greater than 1,200,000 to create a regional student education district (special taxing district) to fund special education and behavioral health services for students and their immediate famili... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 State Funds and Educational Service Centers, Joint Educational Programs H.B. 1 - Section 3306.21 and 3306.22 Section 3306.21: Provides that nothing shall be construed to limit the authority of a district, charter school or STEM school to contract with an educational service center for the provision of any services calculated and paid for under the school funding form... More... ME Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Regional Education Cooperatives H.B. 724 Provides for the formation of regional education cooperatives. School administrative units in existence as of July 1, 2009 may join a regional education cooperative of their choice, and each participating school administrative unit has a single representative ... More... MT Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Sharing Superintendents and Principals S.B. 173 Clarifies the ability of school districts to share superintendents and principals.... More... NM Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Regional Education Cooperatives H.B. 197 Allows regional education cooperatives to provide education-related services to nonmembers; allows cooperatives to apply for and receive government and private funding for educational programs; changes accountability procedures. http://nmlegis.gov/Sessions/09%... More... SD Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 shared services S.B. 140 Allows school districts to enter into contractual agreements with school boards of other school districts to provide for the whole-grade sharing of students among participating districts. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2009/Bills/SB140ENR.pdf... More... CO Rule Adoption 09/2008 P-12 Regional Service Areas 1 CCR 301-76 Relates to the development, expansion, implementation, and management of regional service areas. On or before December 1, 2008, the State Board, in consultation with the Department, school districts, and boards of cooperative services, shall divide the state i... More... CO Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Regional Service Cooperatives S.B. 38 Concerns the creation of a system of Regional Service Cooperatives throughout the state to support economic efficiencies in the delivery of effective public education services. Expands existing regional services areas from 8 to 12, including representation by ... More... MI Signed into law 09/2007 P-12 School District Shared Services H.B. 4592 Relates to a study by a school district concerning opportunities for sharing services with other providers of similar services, such as an intermediate school district, other school districts, units of local government and other programs to achieve cost saving... More... IA Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Sharing and Efficiency of Operations S.F. 447 Reinstates whole grade sharing incentives and reorganization incentives. Creates operational sharing incentives; Mandates a statewide study of efficiencies and sharing to be provided to the Legislature by January 2008. Provides additional weighting for distric... More... IA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Education Efficiency and Improvement Plan H.B. 2792 - Section 31 Directs the institute for tomorrow's workforce to develop an Iowa education efficiency and improvement plan, the goal of which is to establish a new educational delivery system. Directs the institute, in developing the plan, to address issues concerning the a... More... IA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Education Efficiency and Improvement Plan H.B. 2792 - Section 31 Directs the institute for tomorrow's workforce to develop an Iowa education efficiency and improvement plan, the goal of which is to establish a new educational delivery system. Directs the institute, in developing the plan, to address issues concerning the a... More... VT Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 School District Authority H.B. 867 - Section 25 Authorizes local boards to make available school facilities and equipment for specified public purposes if such purposes appear, in the judgment of the board, to be in the best interests of the district and are an efficient, economical, and appropriate use of ... More... VA Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Shared Vehicles H.B. 1582 Provides that any local government or combination of governments within planning district 16 may enter into cooperative agreements with a local school division for the use of school vehicles for public transportation purposes during non-school hours.  Such agr... More... ME Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 District Cost Sharing Agreements H.B. 1344 (also HP 1344 and LD 1903) Relates to locally approved school administrative district cost-sharing agreements which were preempted by Public Law 2003, chapter 712, which first became effective for the 2005-06 school fiscal years and caused significant changes in the local financial obli... More... MT Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Allow off-site educational services S.B. 224 AN ACT ALLOWING A SCHOOL DISTRICT TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES AT AN OFFSITE INSTRUCTIONAL SETTING TO CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOL IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT; REQUIRING THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION TO ADOPT RULES; REVISING THE DEFINITION OF "AVERAGE NU... More... AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Public School Academic Facilities Funding H.B. 2508 This subchapter is known as and may be cited as the "Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Funding Act." Determines the value of total assesed valuation of taxable real, personal and utility property in the school district. Establishes the the Academic F... More... AR Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Study of Education Service Cooperatives H.B. 2645 Requires the house interim committee on education and the senate interim committee to jointly conduct a study of education service cooperatives relative to instructional improvements and support services to the department of education and local school district... More... AR Signed into law 02/2004 P-12 Administratively Consolidated School Districts H.B. 1177 Allows students in administratively consolidated school districts to attend classes and programs in other schools in the district. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1177.pdf... More... AR Signed into law 02/2004 P-12 School District Administrative Consolidation H.B. 1161 Provides administrative consolidation assistance to school districts that administratively consolidate. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1161.pdf... More... OK Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Governance of School Districts S.B. 216 Allows the boards of two or more school districts to contract with one superintendent to serve as superintendent of the school districts. Also allows boards of education of two or more school districts to enter into a mutual contract or separate contracts wit... More... MT Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 School District Sharing Agreements S.B. 394 Authorizes the trustees of a school district to enter into an interlocal cooperative agreement with another K-12 accredited public institution to provide educational services to supplement the district's educational program; requires that credits received and ... More... MT Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 School District Sharing Agreements H.B. 108 Authorizes a school district to enter into a cooperative purchasing contract with one or more districts for the procurement of supplies and services; provides bidding and advertisement requirements for a cooperative purchasing contract; provides for rejection ... More... MT Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 School District Sharing Agreements S.B. 182 Expands the Interlocal Cooperation Act to allow school districts to share teachers, specialists, or superintendents.... More...