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 | 21st Century Skills |
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| Accountability |
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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Learnfare |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers |
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
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| Adult Basic Education |
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| Assessment |
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| Assessment--Accommodations |
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| Assessment--College Entrance Exams |
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| Assessment--Computer Based |
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| Assessment--End-of-Course |
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| Assessment--Formative/Interim |
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| Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
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| Assessment--Legal Issues |
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| Assessment--NAEP (NAEP Results and NAEP Organization) |
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| Assessment--Performance Based/Portfolio |
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| Assessment--Value Added |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| Attendance |
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| Attendance--Compulsory |
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| Attendance--Statutory Ages (Upper and Lower) |
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| Attendance--Truancy |
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| Background Checks |
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| Bilingual/ESL |
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| Brain Research |
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| Business Involvement |
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| Career/Technical Education |
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| Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
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| Cheating |
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| Choice of Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Innovation Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers--Privately Funded |
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| Civic Education |
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| Civic Education--Character Education |
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| Civic Education--Civic Knowledge and Literacy |
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| Civic Education--Curriculum/Standards |
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| Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance |
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| Class Size |
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| Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Alignment |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| Curriculum--Censorship |
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| Curriculum--Core Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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| Curriculum--Environmental Education |
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| Curriculum--Excusal |
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| Curriculum--Family Living Education |
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| Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
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| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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| Curriculum--Geography Education |
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| Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
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| Curriculum--Home Economics |
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| Curriculum--International Education |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling |
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| Curriculum--Mathematics |
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| Curriculum--Multicultural |
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| Curriculum--Physical Education |
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| Curriculum--Science |
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| Curriculum--Sex Education |
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| Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
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| Curriculum--Speech Education |
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| Data-Driven Improvement |
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| Demographics |
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| Demographics--Condition of Children/Adults |
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| Demographics--Enrollments |
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| Desegregation |
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| Education Research |
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| Equity |
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| Federal |
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 | Finance |
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | (Sec. 29-31) Starting in FY 14, allows the SBE (starting in 2014), within available appropriations, to approve (1) operating grants of up to $ 3,000 per student and (2) grants of up to $ 500,000 as startup costs to establish local charter schools on or after July 1, 2012. The grants are payable only if the board of education for the charter school and the union representing the board's certified employees mutually agree on staffing flexibility in the school and the SBE approves the agreement. Increases the state's annual per-student grant to state charter schools over three years from $ 9,400 to $ 11,500. It increases the grant from $ 9,400 to $ 10,500 for FY 13, to $ 11,000 for FY 14, and to $ 11,500 for FY 15 and subsequent fiscal years.
(Sec 32) Allows SBE to grant new state and local charters only to schools located in towns that, at the time of the application, have at least one school participating in the commissioner's network (see Sec. 19) or a school district designated as low-achieving.
Requires two of the first four new state charter schools the SBE approves between July 1, 2012 and July 1, 2017 to be schools specifically focused on providing a dual language or other program models focusing on language acquisition by English language learners. (A dual language program is a two-way bilingual program that integrates language minority and language majority students and provides instruction in both the minority language (such as Spanish) and English.)
Adds to the types of schools to which SBE must give preference when reviewing charter school applications. Preference is to be given to applicants whose primary purpose is to: serve students (a) with a history of low academic performance or behavioral and social difficulties, (b) receiving free or reduced priced lunches, (c) requiring special education, (d) who are ELLs, or (e) who are of a single gender; or improve the academic performance of an existing school that has consistently demonstrated substandard academic performance, as determined by the education commissioner. In addition to providing the preference for serving one or more of the educationally needy populations mentioned above, SBE must give preference to applications that demonstrate highly credible and specific strategies to attract, enroll, and retain such students. Charter applications must include student recruitment and retention plans that clearly describe the school's capacity to recruit and retain such students and how it plans to do so. Permits SBE to deny renewal if that charter schools fails to put sufficient effort into effectively attracting, enrolling, and retaining all of the educationally needy students mentioned above except students of a single gender.
Allows the SBE, upon application, to waive the lottery requirement for schools with a primary purpose of serving at least one of the following: (1) students with a history of behavioral and social difficulties; (2) special education students; (3) ELLs; or (4) students of a single gender. Bars enrollment lotteries for any public school with a school performance index that places it in the lowest-performing 5% of schools that is converted to a local charter school.
(Sec. 33) Requires SDE to study "opt-out lotteries" for determining enrollment in state and local charter schools. Such lotteries automatically include all students who (1) live in the district where the school is located and (2) are enrolled in any grade the school serves, unless a student chooses not to participate. The study must cover (1) the feasibility of charter school governing authorities and boards of education for districts where they are located conducting such lotteries for state charter schools, (2) the methods by which they may be conducted, and (3) the costs of doing so. The SDE must report the study's results and any recommendations to the Education Committee by February 1, 2014.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2012/ACT/PA/2012PA-00116-R00SB-00458-PA.htm
Title: S.B. 458
Source: cga.ct.gov
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| MN | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Repeals the provision that required general education revenues for a student graduating early to be paid as though the student was in attendence for the entire year. Also repeals a provision that exempted these requirements for student participation in the two early graduation programs.
Article 1, Sec. 7
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/data/revisor/law/2012/0/2012-239.pdf
Title: H.F. 2949
Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2011 | P-12 | Amends Section 25 of the State School Aid Act, which provides for adjustments in foundation allowance funding for pupils enrolled in alternative education programs or strict discipline academies, when those pupils are enrolled after the count date after having been counted in membership by another district. The bill requires that: the Department of Education to automatically adjust the pupil counts of the
enrolling and educating districts to reflect the portion of school year spent in each by pupils in strict discipline academies, for those pupils counted by the resident district and
subsequently enrolled in a strict discipline academy after the count day; that the Department of Education to include in the calculation of State aid payments to districts or intermediate districts operating strict discipline academies the portion of a school year a student was enrolled, for the purpose of foundation allowance or categorical payments; that the adjustments in funding to occur upon the student's enrollment in a strict discipline academy; and that a strict discipline academy, for which adjustments in pupil counts and State aid payments were made pursuant to this legislation, to notify the Department if a pupil ceased to be enrolled and the last date of the pupil's enrollment in the academy. [Taken directly from bill summary] Assigned PA 0322
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2011-2012/billconcurred/Senate/pdf/2011-SCB-0691.pdf
Title: S.B. 691
Source: legislature.mi.gov
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| AK | Signed into law 08/2011 | P-12 | An Act amending the funding for statewide residential educational programs; relating to funding for high school vocational and technical instruction as a component of funding for public schools; allows taxpayers a credit against the tax due for cash contributions to include: (1) a facility or an annual intercollegiate sports tournament; (2) Alaska Native cultural or heritage programs including mentoring and tutoring; (3) for education, research, rehabilitation and facilities by an institution located in the state that qualifies as a coastal ecosystem learning center; creating a pilot project in the Iditarod Area School District; providing for an effective date by amending the effective date in sec. 57, ch. 92, SLA 2010. Effective 07/01/2011. MANIFEST ERRORS ON BILL.
http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=SB0084Z&session=27
Title: S.B. 84
Source: http://www.legis.state.ak.us
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| MN | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | (a) Directs the education commissioner to convene a 12-member advisory task force to develop recommendations for repurposing integration revenue funds to create and sustain opportunities for students to achieve improved educational outcomes. Requires the task force to consider how to effectively narrow and close the academic achievement gap and foster students' academic success, among other things.
(b) Suggests that the funding allocation for the new program ensure funding stability for districts receiving revenue under the current integration program. Requires revenue under the new program to be used for purposes recommended by the task force and approved by the legislature.
(c) Includes on the task force six members appointed by the education commissioner, three members appointed by the house speaker, and three members appointed by the senate. Directs the commissioner to convene the first task force meeting and to provide assistance upon request. Directs task force members to seek input from experts and to develop recommendations to improve students' academic achievement.
(d) Requires the commissioner to submit a task force report to the legislature by February 15, 2012, recommending how best to allocate funds previously allocated as integration revenue funds in order to achieve improved educational outcomes for students.
(e) Establishes the base appropriation for the new program in fiscal years 2014 and 2015.
(f) For taxes payable in 2013, allows districts to certify a levy in an amount equal to the district's certified levy for taxes payable in 2012.(Article 13, Sec 49)
http://wdoc.house.leg.state.mn.us/leg/LS87/1/HF0026.0.pdf
Title: H.F. 26
Source: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/
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| AL | To governor 06/2011 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Finance to produce monthly reports on the condition of the Education Trust Fund. Provides legislative intent that such reports increase the transparency of state finances and, when conditions emerge that make budget proration likely, provide advance notice to the affected agencies of government so that they can prepare as much as possible for its impact on their operations.
Title: H.B. 25
Source: Westlaw/StateNet
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| MN | Vetoed 06/2011 | P-12 | Omnibus Education Policy Bill
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H1381.5.html&session=ls87
Title: H.F. 1381
Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov
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| NC | Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2011 | P-12 | Permits local school administrative units to transfer funds for school building administration for any purpose not otherwise prohibited by the state board's ABC transfer policy, by submitting an ABC Transfer Form to the department of public instruction. For funds related to principal positions, requires that the salary transferred be based on the first step of the principal III salary schedule. Requires that, for funds related to assistant principal months of employment, the salary transferred must be based on the first step of the assistant principal salary schedule. Prohibits a local school administrative unit from converting certified position allotments to dollars in order to hire the same type of position. Page 52 of 342: http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H200v9.pdf
Title: H.B. 200 - Transferring Funds for School Building Administration
Source: www.ncleg.net
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12
Postsec. | Establishes the Oregon Education Investment Board to oversee a unified public education system that begins with early childhood services and continues K-20. Identifies the duties of the board, including: (1) Ensuring that early childhood services are streamlined and connected to K-12 education; (2) Recommend strategic investments to ensure the public education budget is integrated and targeted to achieving education outcomes; and (3) Providing an integrated, statewide, student-based data system that monitors expenditures and outcomes to determine return on statewide education investments. Directs the Oregon Education Investment Board to appoint a chief education officer to serve at the pleasure of the board. Establishes the Oregon Education Investment Fund. Directs the board to submit a report to the interim legislative committees on education by December 15, 2011 to describe legislative measures to provide for any of 6 specified approaches.
Establishes the Early Learning Council to assist the board in overseeing a unified system of early childhood services, including the funding and administration of those services. Directs the board to conduct an analysis of plans to merge, redesign or improve the coordination of early childhood services and to align early childhood services with child-centered outcomes. Directs the council to establish a plan to implement early childhood services that could be implemented by June 30, 2012 to achieve specified goals.
Repeals these provisions effective March 15, 2016. Describes processes for the transfer on that date of records and property of the Chief Education Officer and Early Learning Council to the Chancellor of the Oregon University System and Superintendent of Public Instruction, respectively. http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measures/sb0900.dir/sb0909.en.html
Title: S.B. 909
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| PA | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Section 907-A requires the posting of financial and contract information for Intermediate Units. Section 921-A brings the intermediate units in line with other education agencies with regard to posting of financial reports.
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/BI/FN/2011/0/HB1352P2227.pdf
Title: H.B. 1352
Source: http://www.legis.state.pa.us
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| WA | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Modifies provisions relating to the student achievement program general fund allocation.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202011/1131.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1131
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| MN | Vetoed 05/2011 | P-12 | Omnibus K-12 Finance Bill
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0934.4.html&session=ls87
Title: H.F. 934
Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov
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| MN | Vetoed 05/2011 | P-12 | Contains conference committee recommendations for the funding of K-12 education in Minnesota.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bin/showPDF.php
Title: H.F. 934
Source: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/
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| OR | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or otherrevenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery
funds and federal funds, collected or received by Teacher Standards and Practices Commission.
http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measures/sb5500.dir/sb5545.a.html
Title: S.B. 5545
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Requires school district board members to obtain professional development concerning audit procedures. Defines scope and content of training and when a school board member must undergo training.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Acts/Act1213.pdf
Title: H.B. 1708
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Establishes the 13-member Joint Legislative Study Committee on Outcome-Based Education Funding (Committee). Instructs the Committee to develop legislation to transition public school funding from a system based on instructional hours to a system based on student achievement and specifies the legislation must include the following considerations: (1) How the current voter-approved revenue sources and spending requirements will interact with the new proposed system, and (2) the entities that will be responsible for determining the appropriate student outcomes on which the new proposed system will be based. Committee is to submit a report of its activities and recommendations for legislative action to the governor, president of the senate and speaker of the house, and provide a copy to the secretary of state by December 31, 2011. Chapter 80
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/1r/bills/hb2710h.pdf
Title: H.B. 2710
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Creates a new section which will provide provisions in the event of an unanticipated public charter school closure. The provisions require school districts or public charter schools to report students newly enrolled who were enrolled from a public charter that has closed during that school year. The state department of education will use the reported enrollment information to calculate funding that the district or public charter schoolwould have received had the enrollees been enrolled in such districts for the entire school year. Such funding shall be prorated based on the number of days left in the school year and will be included in the next scheduled payment to the district or public charter school.
http://legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2011/S1149.pdf
Title: S.B. 1149
Source: http://legislature.idaho.gov
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Authorizes the Mississippi Department of Education to develop and promulgate policies and procedures regarding financial reimbursements to the sponsoring school district from school districts that have students of record or compulsory-school-age residing in said districts placed in a youth detention center.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2011/pdf/SB/2300-2399/SB2388SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 2388
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Each month the State Department of Education is required to transfer the monies apportioned to the Teachers' Retirement System Dedicated Revenue Revolving Fund to the Teachers' Retirement System of Oklahoma to be used by the System, for the benefit of that system. The revolving fund is to be administered by the State Department of Education
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2011-12bills/HB/HB1007_ENR.RTF
Title: H.B. 1007
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Clarifies the definition of revenue receipts of a school district.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Bills/HB1296.pdf
Title: H.B. 1296
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Provides oversight of and accountability for state desegregation funding received and expended by the Pulaski County School Districts.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Acts/Act701.pdf
Title: H.B. 1878
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| KS | Adopted 03/2011 | P-12 | Resolution would create a statewide vote on a constitutional amendment to clarify that it is the Kansas Legislation that has the authority to "make suitable provision for finance of the educational interests of the state in an equitable manner in in such amounts as may be determined by the legislature." Resolution would change the wording in the exp[lanatory statement printed on the ballot to: "A vote against this amendment would retain the current provision of the Kansas Constitution which has been interpreted by the Kansas Supreme Court as requiring the Kansas Supreme Court as requiring the Kansas Legislature to provide funding for public schools in amounts that may be directed by the Court." To amend section 6 of article 6 of the constitution of the state of Kansas relating to school finance.
http://kslegislature.org/li/b2011_12/year1/measures/documents/hcr5010_02_0000.pdf
Title: H.C.R. 5010
Source: http://kslegislature.org
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Authorizes local school boards to disburse funds to a nonprofit foundation that exists to enhance the public educational experience and quailty of instruction for studnets in that district. Defines conditions that must be met prior to disbursement of furnds.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2011/pdf/HB/1200-1299/HB1227SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 1227
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Authorizes local school boards to purchase easements for access to 16th section lands. Prohibits the use of eminent domain by any local school board or governing authority to acquire easement access to 16th section lands or lieu lands.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2011/pdf/HB/1100-1199/HB1126SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 1126
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Codifies in the Standards of Quality the flexibility to use funds provided in the appropriation act and provided to local school divisions for certain staffing standards related to instructional staff in mathematics, limited English proficiency, reading, technology, and assistant principals. Additionally, amends the definition of ''support services."
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0055+pdf
Title: H.B. 1792/S.B. 1270
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Deletes references to educational programs that have not been funded and do not exist and updates language in other sections to conform to current practice.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0216+pdf
Title: H.B. 1885
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov
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| DE | Signed into law 02/2011 | P-12 | Allows services for children with disabilities to be funded based on identified individual needs rather than on their classification or placement. The "needs-based" funding system provides more flexibility to districts and charter schools in the provision of special education services and is intended to be more equitable in ensuring that resources are distributed based on the specific needs of students receiving special education services.
http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis146.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+1/$file/legis.html?open
Title: H.B. 1
Source: http://legis.delaware.gov/
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2010 | P-12 | From bill analysis: Requires the state board of education to include school districts, county offices of education, charter schools and other agencies deemed eligible pursuant to state and federal law, in any application for federal aid to education, in any allocation of federal funds made pursuant to law, and in any rules and regulations adopted governing the allocation of those funds.
Bil text: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1651-1700/ab_1683_bill_20100830_enrolled.pdf
Governor's veto message: http://dl5.activatedirect.com/fs/distribution:letterFile/yvcee9xanplikz_files/z64toun9texiy7?&_c=d|yvcee9xanplikz|z651jtjl0g7yaz&_ce=1286209518.ef82a5a73803871303f72f0746c9c7d3
Title: A.B. 1683
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NJ | Signed into law 09/2010 | P-12 | Clarifies that a school district is eligible to receive and use chapter 193 State funding to provide special education evaluation services to nonpublic school pupils who are not residents of the State.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2010/Bills/AL10/71_.HTM
Title: A.B. 2300
Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2010 | P-12 | Provides that no public school district or private school is obligated to comply with any new unfunded mandate adopted by the legislature or state board of education. Provides that if the amount appropriated to fund a new mandate does not fully fund the mandated activity, the district or private school may choose to discontinue or modify the activity to ensure that the costs of compliance do not exceed the funding received. Provides that before discontinuing or modifying the mandate, a district must petition its regional superintendent of schools on or before February 15 of each year to request to be exempt from implementing the mandate in a school or schools in the next school year. Sets forth provisions concerning what the petition must contain, review of the petition and a public hearing, granting an exemption, state board of education notification, and appealing the regional superintendent's decision.
Provides that these provisions do not apply to:
(1) Any new statutory or regulatory mandates related to revised learning standards developed through the Common Core State Standards Initiative and assessments developed to align with those standards or actions specified in the state's Phase 2 Race to the Top Grant application if it is approved by the U.S. Department of Education
(2) New statutory or regulatory mandates imposed on school districts designated as being in the lowest performing 5% of schools within the Race to the Top Grant application.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/HB/PDF/09600HB4711lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 4711
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| GA | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Amends language related to the Georgia Education Authority (Schools). Reduces authority membership from 7 to 5 members; replaces existing members with 3 gubernatorial appointees, one appointee of the lieutenant governor, and one appointee of the speaker of the house. Reassigns the commission from the department of administrative services to the Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission. Provides for the assignment of staff from the department of education or Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission to carry out the authority's duties.
Authorizes the authority to sell federal bonds. For purposes of federal law, permits the authorioty to act as the state education agency and to issue qualified zone academy bonds, qualified school construction bonds, or build america bonds or, at its discretion, permit other authorized governmental bodies to issue such bonds. Provides that in participating in any federal program, the authority may apply for and receive funds, make certifications and designations, and do all other things necessary or convenient to participate in or obtain the benefits of federal programs, including programs of bond finance provided under federal law. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/hb936.pdf
Title: H.B. 936 - Section 2 and 3
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| GA | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Amends "Transparency in Government Act" to include in the definition of "agency" all departments (including the department of education), any regional education service agency and local boards of education. Existing provisions require information on financials of all agencies to be posted to the searchable Web site; new provision requires that Web site include an indexed listing of all agencies and end users receiving any federal pass-through moneys and an itemized enumeration of the expenditure of such moneys. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/sb389.pdf
Title: S.B. 389
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Establishes the Statewide E-Rate Program Fund to be administered by the Government Information Technology Agency (GITA) and consisting of the following: (1) Monies received pursuant to the E-Rate Program under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 or other grants to assist Arizona in improving broadband internet and telecommunications assess for public schools and libraries; (2) monies received as a result of an intergovernmental agreement between the GITA and other political subdivisions of Arizona; and (3) monies received for private grants or donations if designated by the Fund by the grantor or donor. Requires that the monies in the Fund be used to assist public school districts, charter schools and libraries to submit applications for funding and to fulfill the terms of an intergovernmental agreement of private contract. Specifies that the GITA must establish policies and procedures for E-Rate application, including providing technical assistance.
Allows GITA to enter into contracts with private organizations and intergovernmental agreements with other state agencies and political subdivisions to administer the statewide program. Allows all school districts and charter schools that are eligible for E-Rate Priority 1 funding to apply for funding by submitting applications with assistance from GITA. Requires all school districts and charter schools that receive E-rate funding to establish a fund and monies in the fund may be used to reimburse the school district or charter school for broadband interest and teleommunications costs. Chapter 332
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/hb2725s.pdf
Title: H.B. 2725--Multiple Provisions
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Requires the state department of education to, within available appropriations, provide grants to local/regional school districts to begin implementation of the new high school graduation requirements (see section 16 of this bill). http://www.cga.ct.gov/2010/ACT/PA/2010PA-00111-R00SB-00438-PA.htm
Title: S.B. 438 - Sec. 18
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| SC | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Provides that a local school district may pay teachers based on the years of experience the teacher possessed in fiscal year 2009-2010 without negative impact to their experience credit; Provides that school districts may not pay district or school administrators more than they received in fiscal year 2009-2010; Requires districts to pay teachers and school and district administrators for changes in their education level. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/4838.htm
Title: H.J.R. 4838
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov
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| 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
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Adds a new chapter to the code, Chapter 8.5--Reading Deficiency Remediation Plan.
Requires the state superintendent and the state board to develop a plan to improve reading skills of students and implement appropriate remediation techniques for students. In addition to appropriate consultation with parents or guardians, the plan must include the following: (1) Reading skills standards for grade 1 through grade 3; (2) emphasis on the method for making determinant evaluations by grade 3 that might require remedial action for the student, including retention as a last resort, after other methods of remediation have been evaluated or used, or both, if reading skills are below the standard; (3) fiscal impact of each component of the plan must be taken into account. For any component of the plan that has a fiscal impact, the state superintendent must present those components of the plan to the general assembly. The state board is to adopt rules to carry out this chapter.
Adds a new chapter to the code, Chapter 16—School Fund Transfers.
Allows the governing board of a school corporation to adopt a resolution to transfer money during the 2010-2011 school year from its capital projects fund if no employees of the school corporation will receive a compensation increase for the 2010-2011 school year, excluding certain incidental or automatic increases, certain reimbursement to teachers for completion of professional education development courses, and a compensation increase paid to a teacher as a result of the teacher receiving an advanced higher education degree. Provides that the maximum amount that may be transferred from a school corporation's capital projects fund is equal to 10% of the sum of: (1) the balance in the school corporation's capital projects fund on December 31, 2009; plus (2) the amount of the school corporation's property tax levy for its capital projects fund for taxes first due and payable in 2010. Provides that the governing body of a school corporation and an exclusive representative may mutually agree to forego any salary or compensation increases that would otherwise be required for the 2010-2011 school year under the statutes concerning minimum teacher pay. Requires school corporations to adopt a plan to take the actions necessary and desirable to preserve and protect institutional programs. Provides that the plan must address class sizes, curriculum or program offerings, certificated employee positions and teaching assistants, allocation of resources to students who are deficient in reading skills and limitations on employee and administrative salaries and other compensation. Public Law 109
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2010/HE/HE1367.1.html
Title: H.B. 1367
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative
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| 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
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Revises property tax levies for the general fund of a school district; relates to agricultural property and single-family dwellings.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2010/Bills/SB67ENR.pdf
Title: S.B. 67
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Eliminates the requirement that every three years a census of all school-age persons residing within each school division take place; eliminates all related requirements regarding appointment and compensation of persons taking census, agents, and census results. Amends the procedure regarding sales and use tax distribution to localities so that distribution is based on the average daily membership of the school division rather han the school-age population of a school division.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+HB669ER+pdf
Title: H.B. 669/S.B. 413
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Changes school levy provisions; modifies the maximum levy percentage for specified calendar years; modifies provisions concerning the allocation of state matching funds to eligible districts. Chapter 237
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/2893-S.PL.pdf
Title: H.B. 2893
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Relates to school finance; excludes district revenues derived from any tuition assessed by a district for the provision of distance education programs to participating nonresident students from local resource computations used in computing foundation program amounts; provides for an effective date. Chapter 24
http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2010/Introduced/HB0012.pdf
Title: H.B. 41
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us
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| ID | Signed into law 02/2010 | P-12 | Relates to unclaimed property; allows the administrator of the Unclaimed Property Act a period of five years prior to turning property over to the Public School Endowment Fund; requires holders reporting ten or more properties to report in a format required by the administrator; allows the administrator discretion to sell abandoned property within three years; allows the administrator to waive penalties and interest in certain cases Chapter 15
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/.
Title: H.B. 385
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/
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| NV | Vetoed 02/2010 | P-12 | Provides for a temporary reduction in salary in lieu of furlough leave for state employees who are exempt from taking unpaid furlough leave; require the approval of a plan for additional overtime to be approved before the overtime is worked; provides for a temporary reduction in compensation for employees of the Senate and Assembly; provides for the closing of state offices on certain days and the revision of the workweek of state employees with certain exceptions; authorizes school districts to require furloughs.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/26th2010Special/Bills/SB/SB3_EN.pdf
Title: S.B. 3B
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| NV | Signed into law 02/2010 | P-12 | Provides a temporary waiver for the biennium to each school district, charter school and university school for profoundly gifted pupils from the minimum expenditure requirements for textbooks, instructional supplies, instructional software and instructional hardware.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/26th2010Special/Bills/AB/AB5_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 5B
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/
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| VT | Signed into law 02/2010 | P-12 | Puts forth challenge to policy makers, administrators, service providers, and school administrators to design outcome-driven changes in service and performance, to implement these changes with reduced state funding, and to maintain accountability for meeting goals through clear measures of outcome achievement. Education addressed in Section 6. See full text excerpts included here. Act 68
http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2010/Acts/ACT068.pdf
Also see: http://www.leg.state.vt.us/JFO/CFC%20Progress%20Report.pdf
and http://cto.vermont.gov/blog/scorecard
Title: S.B. 286
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2009 | P-12 | Expresses legislative findings and declarations regarding the state's school funding system. Requires a working group to be convened to make findings and recommendations to the legislature and the governor by December 2010 regarding restructuring the state's school finance system. Requires the findings to include alternative structures for funding public schools, the policy and fiscal implementations of such structure or structures, and an evaluation mechanism to facilitate continuous improvement, maximum transparency, and accountability. Bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_8_bill_20090916_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_8_vt_20091011.html
Title: A.B. 8
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2009 | P-12 | Conditions the reduction of the revenue limit or general purpose entitlement for school districts upon certification by the superintendent of public instruction that an equivalent amount of additional federal or state funds that may be used by a district or chartering authority for revenue limit or general purposes uses have been made available to the district or authority. Requires a report on the amount of reductions that will not be eligible for restoration using federal funding. Bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_84_bill_20090915_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_84_vt_20091011.html
Title: S.B. 84
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| 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
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| NY | Vetoed 09/2009 | P-12 | Outlines the tuition rate that school districts or private schools may charge for out-of-district students for the 2010-11 school year. Provides the tuition amount is to be paid by the student's home district. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A08245&sh=t
Title: A.B. 8245
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Concerns criminal justice budget reconciliation; relates to juvenile probation, probation surcharges, probation officers, community punishment programs, emancipation of minors, the drug treatment and education fund, the lengthy trial fund, the child support and domestic relations committees, court diversion fees, public employee retirement benefits, inmate medical services, state traffic photo enforcement system, the state crime laboratory, highway patrolling costs, and specified related funds. Chapter 6
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/3s/bills/hb2010h.pdf
Title: H.B. 2010C
Source: http://www.azleg.gov/
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| NC | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Requires credit education for all students; provides that each student receive personal financial literacy instruction that includes the true cost of credit, choosing and managing a credit card, borrowing money for an automobile or other large purchase, home mortgages, credit scoring and credit reports, and other relevant financial literacy issues; requires the State Board of Education to determine into which courses and grade levels the curriculum shall be integrated. http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1474v5.pdf
Title: H.B. 1474
Source: http://www.ncleg.net
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| NH | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Requires that pupils attending an approved chartered public school be counted in the average daily membership in residence.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/HB0169.html
Title: H.B. 169
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/
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| AZ | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Relates to k-12 education budget reconciliation; provides for calculating equalization assistance for charter schools; provides that a school district or charter school is ineligible to receive basic state aid for certain children readmitted to kindergarten; provides a method of calculating a district's transportation support level. Chapter 2
Title: H.B. 2002C
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Amends provisions specifying which programs may receive funds realized from fines for violating special speed limit in school zone. Adds the Safe Routes to School Program and safety programs within the School Safety and Educational Improvement Block Grant Program to these programs http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB0075lv.pdf.
Title: S.B. 75
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Establishes a Financial Literacy Council to coordinate and expand the statewide delivery of financial education for all North Carolinians; the council will consider and make recommendations to address (among other things) the current personal financial literacy programs in the public schools and how to integrate financial education in K-12; the council will consult with the public schools, community colleges, and public and private university systems to further its mission. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1019v5.pdf
Title: S.B. 1019
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | From DOE summary of H.B. 1:
Requires school districts that owe tuition for a regular education student housed in a residential facility to pay an amount determined by a formula approved by ODE, if the student (1) resides in a facility that is not a foster home or a facility maintained by the DYS and (2) receives educational services at the facility from a school district under contract with the facility to provide those services. Requires that the formula be designed to calculate a per diem cost for the educational services provided to the child and to reflect the actual costs incurred in providing the services.
Pages 1183-1194 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
DOE summary document: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3313.64
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Section 3306.29: Establishes the Ohio school funding advisory council. Directs the council, by December 1, 2010 and every other year thereafter, to provide recommendations to the state board, the general assembly and the public for revisions to the adequacy components of the evidence-based school funding model . Requires that the recommendations be based on current, high quality research, information provided by school districts, and best practices in operational efficiencies. Requires that the December 2010 recommendations include analysis of the funding model's adequacy in financing for special education, gifted education services, career-technical education, arts education, services for limited English proficient students, and early college high schools.
Also requires the 2010 report to include:
(1) Recommendations for a student-centered evidence-based model that uses a per-pupil level of funding to follow a student to the school that best meets the student's individual learning needs
(2) A study of the extent to which current funding for joint vocational school districts and compact and comprehensive career-technical schools is responsive to state, regional and local business and industry needs, and recommendations for revisions to career-technical education programming and funding
(3) A study of the extent to which the current educational service center system supports school districts in academic achievement, teacher quality, shared educational services, and the purchasing of educational services and commodities, and recommendations for a new regional service delivery system, the educational service system governance structure, and accountability metrics for educational service centers
(4) A study of existing teacher compensation and retirement benefits structures, and recommendations for changes to the systems of teacher compensation and retirement benefits to improve the connections between teacher compensation, teaching excellence and higher levels of student learning
(5) A consideration of whether community schools (charter schools) and STEM schools should be subject to the expenditure and reporting standards and accountability requirements that apply to school districts
(6) An analysis of the effects of open enrollment on students and districts, and recommendations for ensuring that open enrollment policies and financing are equitable for students and districts.
Authorizes the council's analyses and recommendations for 2010 or subsequent biennia to address (but not be limited to):
(1) Strategies and incentives to promote cost-saving measures and efficiencies
(2) Options for adding learning time to the learning year, such as moving educator professional development to summer, adding learning time for children with greater educational needs, accounting for learning time by hours instead of days, and appropriate compensation to districts and staff for providing additional learning time
(3) The adequacy of the model's accounting for and financing of operational costs, including district-level administration and administrative and transportation challenges experienced by low-density and low-wealth school districts, and the effect of those costs on student achievement
(4) The accuacy of the calculation of each component of the funding model, and the model as a whole, in light of current educational needs and practices, and best practices
(5) Options to encourage districts and schools already attaining "excellent" ratings under the state accountability system to go beyond state standards and aspire to higher international norms.
Section 3306.291: Establishes a subcommittee of the Ohio school funding advisory council to study and make recommendations to foster collaboration between school districts and community schools. Directs the subcommittee to recommend fiscal strategies, including changes to the evidence-based funding model, that will provide incentives and compensation for districts and community schools to enter into collaborative agreements resulting in creative and innovative academic programming, and academic and fiscal efficiency. Directs the subcommittee to report its findings and recommendations to the general assembly by September 2010, and periodically thereafter at the direction of the state superintendent.
Section 3306.292: Permits the Ohio school funding advisory council to establish additional subcommittees. Leaves the membership and duties of the additional subcommittees to the discretion of the advisory council. Provides that up to one-half of the members of each additional subcommittee may be individuals who are not members of the council.
Pages 1103-1106 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3306.29, 3306.291 and 3306.292
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Takes several steps targeted at allowing local schools and districts to make better decisions at the local level to educate students. Its provisions include permitting local districts substantially more discretion with respect to expenditure of state education funds than they have under existing law. However, the bill also establishes a number of safeguards to ensure that those funds are spent in a responsible manner that enhances student achievement, including state approval of local district budgets.
http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+119/$file/legis.html?open
Title: H.B. 119
Source: http://legis.delaware.gov
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Creates a pilot Academic Achievement Awards program, which would use federal stimulus funds to make financial awards to schools that significantly close the achievement gap and schools that exceed their adequate yearly progress for two or more consecutive years. The awards are focused on schools that have high percentages of economically disadvantaged students.
http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/vwLegislation/SB+151/$file/legis.html?open
Title: S.B. 151
Source: http://legis.delaware.gov
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| NJ | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Establishes pilot program in Department of Education to provide instruction in personal finance to high school seniors.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2008/Bills/A2000/1943_I1.HTM
Title: A.B. 1943
Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by Oregon Health Licensing Agency; declares emergency, effective July 1, 2009. Chapter 650
http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/sb5500.dir/sb5525.en.pdf
Title: S.B. 5525
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Extends the high school innovation grant initiative to middle and junior high schools. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB02263F.pdf
Title: H.B. 2263
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Section 69: Adds new section 45.0531. Authorizes the state board by rule to establish a percentage of the cost value of the permanent school fund to be reserved from use in guaranteeing bonds.
Section 70: Requires districts seeking state guarantee of eligible bonds to use a form adopted by the commissioner for this purpose.
Section 71: Adds reference to credit enhancement.
Section 72: Authorizes the commissioner to order a district to set an ad valorem tax rate capable of producing an amount of revenue sufficient to allow the district to provide reimbursement to the permanent school fund and pay the principal of and interest on district bonds as the principal and interest become due. Provides that if a district fails to comply with the commissioner's order, the commissioner may impose any sanctions ennumerated in "Accreditation Sanctions," Subchapter G, Chapter 39, including appointment of a board of managers or annexation to another district, regardless of the district's accreditation status or the duration of a particular accreditation status. Pages 69-72 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3646 - Sections 69-72
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| WI | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Permits a school board or cooperative educational service agency, in conjunction with a tribal education authority, to apply to the state department of education for a grant to support innovative, effective instruction in one or more American Indian languages. Directs the department to promulgate rules to implement and administer this program.
Page 468 of 692: http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/acts/09Act28.pdf
Title: A.B. 75
Source: www.legis.state.wi.us
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| ID | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Amends and repeals existing law relating to education; revises provisions relating to severance payments; revises provisions relating to the determination of allowances; revises provisions relating to certain incentives; revises provisions relating to employing retired teachers and administrators; declares that school districts and public charter schools will receive reduced funding; encourages the districts and public charter schools to accommodate such reductions.
Chapter 285
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/H0262.htm
Title: H.B. 262
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/H0262.htm
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| 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
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district that closes a school facility to receive the greater of its sparsity revenue computed under current law or the amount of sparsity revenue it received in the previous year.
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0002.5.html&session=ls86
Title: H.F. 2
Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Provides for the reversion of certain money in the Account for Programs for Innovation and the Prevention of Remediation created to provide grants of money to public schools and consortiums of public schools for programs designed for the achievement of pupils that are linked to the plan to improve the achievement of pubils or for innovative programs, or both, to the State General Fund. Chapter 241
http://leg.state.nv.us/75th2009/Bills/AB/AB530_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 530
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Ensures sufficient funding for K-12 public education for the 2009-2011 biennium; makes appropriations for class size reduction; authorizes school district bonds for purchase of school buses. Chapter 389
http://leg.state.nv.us/75th2009/Bills/AB/AB563_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 563
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| NV | Senate sustained governor's veto 05/2009 | P-12 | Revises various provisions relating to funding for public education; creates the K-12 Public Education Stabilization Account; repeals the provisions applying certain tax abatements to taxes imposed for public education and authorizing certain tax credits against taxes imposed for public education; exempts certain taxes imposed for public education from the reallocation of property taxes levied on property in a redevelopment area.
http://leg.state.nv.us/75th2009/Bills/AB/AB458_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 458
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/
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| OR | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Allows the Superintendent of Public Instruction to specify an alternative date for making a distribution or apportionment of funds payable to education service districts or school district from the State School Fund if a human-created or natural disaster affects the ability of the Department of Education to make the distribution by a specified date and to specify an alternative date to provide an estimate or revised estimate if a disaster affects the ability of the Department to provide the estimate. Chapter 184
http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/sb0001.dir/sb0065.en.pdf
Title: S.B. 65
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Regards financial education; changes the name of the financial literacy public-private partnership to the financial education public-private partnership; and modifies its duties; authorizes the partnership and the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to implement demonstration projects if funds are provided. Chapter 443
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1347-S.PL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1347
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Modifies provisions relating to county auditors; modifies county auditor provisions; repeals county auditor duties regarding school district warrants and state fund accounts; relates to payments to a credit union, payments of charter counties, special purpose districts and liability of auditors. Chapter 337
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1583-S.PL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1583
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1583-S.PL.pdf
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Relates to reducing costs in state elementary and secondary education programs; relates to funding for the leadership academy, math, science, and technology programs, civics, parental involvement, teacher development and school safety. Chapter 578
Title: S.B. 6168
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Provides intervention and professional consultation upon early indicators of the fiscal or facilities distress of a public school district; requires the Department of Education to report to the superintendent of a school district regarding nonmaterial indicators of fiscal distress that could jeopardize the fiscal integrity of the school district if not addressed; requires specified reporting by a district superintendent if the condition of an academic facility raises a significant health or safety issue.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Bills/HB2170.pdf
Title: H.B. 2170
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Clarifies student growth funding for public school districts.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act1501.pdf
Title: H.B. 1555
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Allows a superintendent's employment contract with a school district to be terminated for cause and without the district having any further financial obligation to the superintendent if the district has been placed on fiscal distress by the Department of Education because of commitments made by the superintendent of which the board of directors had no knowledge or a misrepresentation made by the superintendent concerning district finances that the board relied upon to the detriment of the district.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act1203.pdf
Title: S.B. 345
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Provides fiscal accountability for education service cooperatives; provides that such cooperatives may submit a complete listing of all employees of the cooperative and each employee's position, salary, and benefits to the Department of Education, in lieu of a salary schedule; revises the requirements for policies and rules of such cooperatives; revises the provisions governing the certain financial reporting requirements of such cooperatives; adds procedures to determine fiscally distressed cooperatives.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act1289.pdf
Title: H.B. 1606
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to provide a detailed report of national school lunch student categorical fund expenditures, transfers from the school lunch categorical funds to other funds and results from programs funded by national school lunch student categorical funds.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act1369.pdf
Title: S.B. 889
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Provides that the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee may refer an audit report of a school district to the Department of Education if the audit report of the school district identifies a substantial issue of noncompliance with state or federal financial reporting requirements or other state or federal law or regulation and the same issue is identified in 2 consecutive audit reports.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Acts/Act1370.pdf
Title: S.B. 904
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Deletes several requirements for reporting (i.e., simply the number of graduates, rather than specifying that the number has to be calculated according to the NGA definition; and the number of students who graduated in past five years but were not proficient in core content areas). Deletes the requirement that diagnostic assessment results be reported to parents when students are performing below expected levels. Adds a provision that an area education agency director, officer, or teacher cannot act as an agent for textbook or athletic or similar sales in the local district or areas districts. Requires hearing dates and times for the school budget review committee located within the departmetn of education to be posted on the state departement Web site.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&menu=false&hbill=HF687
Title: H.B. 687
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Relates to Agriculture in the Classroom license plates; amends existing law relating to the state Agriculture in the Classroom program to provide that the Transportation Department shall transfer certain moneys directly to the Agriculture in the Classroom program and to provide for the use of moneys so transferred.
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/H0124PrinterFriendly.htm
Title: H.B. 124
Source:
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Amends and adds to existing law relating to school district financial emergencies; provides for notice requirements in the event a financial emergency has been declared; provides an exception to the issuance of certain contracts; clarifies language; provides for an informal review under certain circumstances; provides for a due process hearing and procedure under certain circumstances; provides that a due process hearing is not required under certain circumstances; provides time requirement for a budget. Chapter 171
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/H0252.pdf
Title: H.B. 252
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Relates to fiscal affairs of school districts; relates to state school bond guarantees; relates to fiscal solvency of school districts; provides that school districts may seek credit enhancement; relates to debt service payment and the public school endowment fund for purchasing specified notes.
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2009/S1154.pdf
Title: S.B. 1154
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov
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| 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
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Concerns a school district; in Atchison; relates to the number of pupils in the custody of the juvenile justice system and enrolled in school district 409. Chapter 2009-76
http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2010/2001.pdf
Title: H.B. 2001
Source: http://www.kslegislature.org
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Concerns school impact fees; requires such fees must be expended or encumbered for a permissible use within ten years of receipt, unless there exists reasons for hold the fees longer; requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to develop criteria for extending the use of school impact fees from six to ten years; provides that this extension must require an evaluation for each respective school board of the appropriateness of the extension. Chapter 263
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5580.PL.pdf
Title: S.B. 5580
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| MS | Vetoed 03/2009 | P-12 | Authorizes the State Board of Education to contract with and provide funds to regional educational service agencies for any education-related services. (Vetoed as it's identical to S.B. 2315.)
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2009/pdf/HB/0500-0599/HB0590SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 590
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Prohibits public school students in 7th-12th grades who fail to maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.0 from participating in extracurricular activities. Authorizes and directs the state board to define failing schools and school districts under certain standards. Requires districts to develop and public certain annual reports prescribed by the state board. Authorizes the state board to request the governor to declare a state of emergency in a school district which meets the definition of a failing school district for two consecutive years. Establishes a recovery school district within the department of education under the direction of the superintendent to provide management and oversight for all districts that are subject to state conservator ship and to hear certain appeals from those districts. Provides for the annual audit of public school districts under the direction of the state auditor. Prescribes training requirements for school board members and superintendents in failing school districts. Requires districts receiving accreditation assistance from the department of education to implement programs specified by state superintendent. Directs the state auditor to conduct a review of the finances of any district determined to be in a serious financial condition and make an immediate report thereon. Clarifies that education employment procedures do not apply to any category of employee in a school district subject to a state conservatorship. Require districts with schools determined to be failing to establish community-based education councils that are accountable to the community. Provides for the removal of appointed or elected school superintendents of underperforming school districts under certain circumstances.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2009/pdf/SB/2600-2699/SB2628SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 2628
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| OR | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Adjusts appropriations and expenditures for various agencies and programs; decreases amounts allocated from the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund (ASEDF) to various funds, departments and the Office of Governor; reduces amounts allocated from the ASEDF for distribution to counties but increases amounts allocated to the Sports Lottery Account and Department of Education; appropriates moneys to the School Day Restoration Fund; repeals funding for additional troopers for the State Police. Chapter 22
http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/sb5500.dir/sb5552.en.pdf
Title: S.B. 5552
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Repeals the provision that requires cooperatives to set aside a portion of the net proceeds as an education fund.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2009/Bills/SB136ENR.pdf
Title: S.B. 136
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us/
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Requires a searchable internet website for the posting and access of certain public records and financial information of the state, municipalities, counties, school districts and other political subdivisions.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2009/Bills/SB143ENR.pdf
Title: S.B. 143
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Requires local governing bodies and local school divisions to publish the estimated required local match in the publication of the annual school budget; provides that local governing bodies and school divisions must, by law, publish the annual school budget for public inspection and comment; requires that the publication shall include the estimated required local match for school funding purposes.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+CHAP0280
Title: S.B. 1285
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Relates to public funds; provides for minimum balances in specified education accounts; provides for distribution of revenues between accounts and to the common school permanent land fund; provides that any unencumbered funds remaining the the school foundation program account in excess of a specified amount as of a specified date shall be deposited to the school capital construction account. Chapter 98
http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2009/Enroll/SF0124.pdf
Title: S.B. 124
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us
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| AR | Signed into law 02/2009 | P-12 | Requires a review of the recommendations for educational adequacy for all public school students before each fiscal session; relates to funding.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Bills/HB1250.pdf
Title: H.B. 1250
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2009 | P-12 | Requires the annual report of expenditures provided by the school board to the appropriate governing body to also be made available to the public in sufficient detail for citizens to readily identify how appropriated funds have been spent.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB2269ER
Title: H.B. 2269
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| CA | Vetoed 01/2009 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to sufficient textbook requirements, county superintendent revenue limits, school district building maintenance funding, funding for school and community college districts, pupil retention block grants, charter school block grants, pupil oral health assessments, local agency program improvement under the No Child Left Behind program, the High Priority Schools Grant Program, funding for regional occupational centers and programs, school transportation funds, and local education agency budgets.
Title: A.B. 4A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WY | Adopted 01/2009 | P-12 | Amends rules to require promulgation of rules and regulations governing Food Service Operations in districts and provide financial assistance to districts operating food service programs having deficit balances. Amends rules to promulgate rules mandating an annual report from districts applying for those funds.
http://soswy.state.wy.us/Rules/RULES/7296.pdf
Title: Chapter 4
Source: http://soswy.state.wy.us
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2008 | Community College | Provides for the integration of reports by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges that relate to pupils enrolled in summer session courses and full-time equivalent students. Requests the University of California and requires the California State University and community colleges to report specified information. Deletes a report requirement related to students with disabilities. Relates to applications for funding for CalWORKs students by community colleges.
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: A.B. 1821
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2008 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to compute an amount of funding for each pupil concurrently enrolled in regular secondary school classes and classes operating pursuant to a joint powers agreement that became effective prior to a certain date. Authorizes the Center for Advanced Research and Technology to receive general-purpose funding for certain years for a total average daily attendance. Provides for the computation of the average daily attendance of a regional occupational center. Chapter 762
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: A.B. 2246
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2008 | P-12 | Amends existing law that requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to apportion to each school district a per pupil amount of funds for providing intensive instruction and services to pupils who have not met the high school exit examination requirement and have failed one or both parts of that examination by the end of grade 12, and sets forth the calculation to determine funding. Makes a technical correction in the manner in which that calculation is described and other technical changes.
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: A.B. 359
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2008 | P-12 | Relates to the After School Education and Safety Program Act. Authorizes the administrators of a before- or after-school program to operate during weekends. Provides that costs associated with providing after school activities on weekends would be paid from a program's maximum or supplemental grant. Requires a program participant that contracts with another agency to provide some or all of the program's services to ensure that it includes funds for reasonable indirect and administrative costs.
Title: S.B. 1674
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2008 | P-12 | Requires that a regional occupational center or program established and maintained by school districts or joint powers agencies pursuant to a joint powers agreement receive, in annual operating funds, an amount per unit of average daily attendance equal to the revenue limit received by each of the participating school districts directly from the county office of education in which it is located. Chapter 519
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_1151-1200/sb_1197_bill_20080928_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 1197
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2008 | Postsec.
Community College | Provides for the issuance of Police Association License Plates. Provides that certain amounts of the license plate issuance and renewal fees must be deposited into the police association fund. Creates the police association fund; provides that all funds in the police association fund must be used to provide death benefits for police officers killed in the line of duty and for undergraduate and graduate scholarships for their families. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB5607lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 5607
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| CA | Vetoed 07/2008 | Community College
Postsec. | Authorizes the performance audit of a school or community college district to ensure that bond funds have been expended only on the specific projects authorized, to include reviews of the compliance of the district with its bond ballot language and certain costs and procedures.
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: A.B. 125
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2008 | P-12 | Relates to notification of Superintendent of Public Instruction when the county board of education approves proceeding with the issuance of certificates of participation or revenue bonds or to entering into an agreement for financing pursuant the School Finance Authority Act. Requires these notices to be made no later than a specified time period before the approval of the debt in the case of certificates of participation. Imposes this requirement on other debt instruments. Chapter 128.
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: A.B. 2197
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to financing of postsecondary education and public and charter schools, calculating actual utility costs and the actual revenue control limit for a school district, teacher performance pay and career ladders, creation of the University Capital Improvement Lease-to-Own Fund, student financial aid, college savings plans, and school district tax levies. Chapter 287
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/48leg/2r/bills/hb2211o.asp
Title: H.B. 2211
Source: http://www.azleg.gov/
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12
Postsec. | Increases base level (per-pupil funding) for all public schools by two percent from $3,226.88 to $3,291.42 for FY2008-09; increased additional assistance formula amount for cherter schools in FY2008-09 by two percent to $1,474.16 for K-8 grades and $1,718.10 for grades 9-12; increases the transportation support level per route mile formula amount by two percent for FY2008-09; suspends rapid decline funding for school districts in FY2008-09; specifies the K-12 Qualified Tax Rate for tax year 2007-08 and correspondingly FY2008-09 adjusted for truth in taxation and business property tax changes, is $1.4622 for elementary and union school districts and $2.9244 for unified school districts. Bill also discusses joint technological education districts and technology assisted instruction, school facilities and new school construction, and utilities cost funding. Chapter 287
http://www.azleg.gov.legtext/48leg/24/bills/hb2211o.asp
Title: H.B. 2211
Source: http://www.azleg.gov/
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| DE | To Governor 06/2008 | P-12 | Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Secretary of Finance, the Secretary of Education and the Controller General to provide the Governor and the General Assembly with recommendations for a fair and equitable reassessment of all real property for the purpose of ad valorem taxation by county governments and school districts.
http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis144.nsf/vwLegislation/HJR+22/$file/legis.html?open
Title: H.J.R. 22
Source: http://legis.delaware.gov
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Deletes salary supplements for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification from definition of compensation under the Retirement System; excludes charter school Merit Award Program funds from administrative fees; revises funding for dual enrollment instruction; authorizes transfer of funds for academic classroom instruction; provides for allocation of research-based reading instruction; authorizes a school district to redirect millage amounts.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h5083er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=5083&Session=2008
Title: H.B. 5083
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Relates to the cost of an adequate education and provision of fiscal capacity disparity aid; determines the per pupil cost of the opportunity for an adequate education which includes differentiated aid distributed to schools based on number of pupils receiving special education services, eligible for a free or reduced price lunch or English learners; establishes a joint committee; provides a fiscal disparity aid based on municipality's equalized valuation and to state approved chartered schools.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2008/SB0539.html
Title: S.B. 539
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Bill expands eligibility for Oklahoma Arts Council incentive grants to organizations, as well as school districts, for establishment of visual arts programs in schools. The bill also expands the sources of funds with which the council may match state appropriations for the program to include funding raised by the Council, school districts, for-profit or nonprofit organizations, foundations, corporations, or individuals.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2007-08bills/HB/hb2699_enr.rtf
Title: H.B. 2699
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| RI | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | (Joint Resolution) Requests the Department of Education to create a task force on youth financial literacy in order to develop a statewide strategy, action plan, and marketing plan for increasing middle and high school students' knowledge of personal financial literacy.
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/hofrep.html
Title: H.B. 8332
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us
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| MN | Vetoed 05/2008 | P-12 | Relates to school district development screening aide, teacher and administrator licensure, district teacher compensation aide, district debt service equalization aid, non-resident student enrollment, an advisory council on early childhood education and care, adult basic education aid, general education revenue, district land or building leasing, safe schools levies, district borrowing, district repayment defaults, district tax abatement adjustments, testing and reports, and school breakfast programs.
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0006.5.html&session=ls85
Title: H.B. 6
Source: https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us
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| 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
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Provides state funding from the Public Education Stabilization Fund to temporarily mitigate the impact on certain school districts for loss of Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Depreciation Act federal funds; provides that if the Superintendent of Public Instruction determines that the federal government has reauthorized the Secure Rural Schools and Self- Determination Act, the funds will not be distributed. Chapter 384
http://www3.idaho.gov/oasis/H0532.html
Title: H.B. 532
Source: http://www3.idaho.gov
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Relates to low performing schools and school districts. Changes the designation of priority schools to schools at risk. Modifies and expands the definition of an at risk school. Commits the Legislature to the appropriation of adequate funds for the support of providing assistance to low-performing schools and districts. Directs the state board to adopt regulations that require districts that receive allocations of adequate education program at-risk funds to specifically target the expenditure of those funds to implement effective programs to serve at-risk students, and that provide the methods by which districts will be held accountable for the expenditure of at-risk funds.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2008/pdf/SB/2600-2699/SB2666SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 2666
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| WI | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Directs the department of public instruction to determine the average percentage of work time of school nurses, social workers, psychologists and counselors that is spent providing services to students with disabilities. The department must issue rules establishing that the percentage of time determined to be for special education services is the proportional amount that the state will reimburse.
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2007/data/acts/07Act221.pdf
Title: A.B. 906
Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Allows for the transfer of congressional township school funds held by counties to the treasurer of state. The transfers may take place over a number of years.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2008/PDF/HE/HE1244.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1244
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Provides that the bonded indebtedness limit for school districts in which the total number of students enrolled at any one time during the school has increased a certain average shall have a certain assessed value of the taxable property in the district.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2008/pdf/SB/2900-2999/SB2995SG.pdf
Title: S.B. 2995
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Makes major changes to the funding formula by eliminating adjusted enrollment and other waiver provisions and focuses new calculations on student density factors. For more detail see fiscal note:http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Fiscalnotes/FN(2)/fnsubmit_recordview1.cfm?RecordID=2005298. Copy of bill: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2008_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/HB4588%20enr%20SUB.htm
Title: H.B. 4588
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us
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| 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
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2008 | P-12 | Provides state aid to education to certain school districts for students who currently attend a high school primarily focused on career and technical education that is operated by an eligible school district and who, immediately prior to attending the high school primarily focused on career and technical education, was enrolled in a school district other than the eligible school district
http://legis.state.sd.us/index.aspx.
Title: S.B. 155
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2008 | P-12 | Revises the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2008 regarding appropriations to the Department of Executive Management, the Department of Game, Fish and Parks, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Education, the Board of Regents, the Department of Human Services, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and the Unified Judicial System.
http://legis.state.sd.us
Title: H.B. 1087
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
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| NJ | Signed into law 01/2008 | P-12 | Enacts the School Funding Reform Act of 2008 to creates a fair, equitable and predictable funding formula based on student characteristics; relates to the base per pupil amounts used to determine a district's base cost, the calculation of a district's adequacy budget, at-risk students proportionment, special education costs, vocational education, early childhood programs, transportation aid, the funding of charter school students, and a district's tax levy growth.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A0500/500_I2.PDF
Title: A.B. 500
Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2007 | Community College
Postsec. | Enacts the Community College Student Federal and State Financial Aid Opportunity Act. Expresses various findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to the use of the Pell Grant program by students of Community Colleges. Requires the Community Colleges Chancellor's Office to take various actions to inform students of opportunities to participate in the Pell Grant Program, to analyze the participation rate of community college students in the program, and to have high school counselor workshops. Chapter 607
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_0651-0700/ab_668_bill_20071013_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 668
Source: http://info.sen.ca.gov
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| WV | Signed into law 09/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Relates to higher education generally; authorizes conveyance of property, the Higher Education Policy Commission, election of officers, meetings, salary increases, community colleges and technical college education.
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2007_SESSIONS/2X/BILLS/SB2005%20SUB1%20eng.htm
Title: S.B. 2005B
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us
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| CA | To governor 08/2007 | P-12 | Provides funding for education under the State Budget Act for the 2007-2008 fiscal year.
http://www.senate.ca.gov/
Title: S.B. 80
Source: http://www.senate.ca.gov/
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| MA | Signed into law 08/2007 | P-12 | Relates to streamlining the regional school budget process, capital outlay expenses and a city or town's apportioned share for expenditures.
Title: H.B. 586
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2007 | Postsec.
Community College | Implements fiscal efficiencies within the university system and state government as recommended by the University of North Carolina President's Advisory Committee on Efficiency and Effectiveness (PACE).
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H749v0.html
Title: H.B. 749
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NJ | Adopted 07/2007 | P-12 | Amends rules establishing a grant program to fund the State share of the final eligible costs of school facilities projects undertaken by school districts whose district aid percentage is less than 55% and which elect not to have the Corporation construct the school facilities project.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us
Title: NJAC 19:32-1 thru -4
Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Relates to fingerprinting of applicants for a new or renewed teaching certificate in a school district or charter school; relates to calculating equalization assistance for charter schools; establishes the American Competitiveness Project Fund to provide technical assistance to schools and local educational agencies that provide specified curricula; relates to educational assessment; relates to the mathematics or science achievement grant; relates to the Instructional Technology Systems Pilot Program. Chapter No. 264
http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/48leg/1r/summary/h.hb2790_06-18-07_astransmittedtogovernor.doc.htm
Title: H.B. 2790
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Modifies the law pertaining to the resolution of disputes between the state board of education and the board of county commissioners regarding school funding.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H1519v0.html
Title: H.B. 1519
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Sets forth the substantive educational content of an adequate education, requires the establishment of criteria to identify schools with greater educational challenges for the provision of additional education aid and establishes a joint legislative oversight committee on costing education.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/HB0927.html
Title: H.B. 927
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Revises provisions governing the inclusion of certain information in the biennial budget request for the state distributive school account for submission to the department of administration based upon the annual budgets submitted by the school districts. Creates the Grant Fund for Incentives for licensed educational personnel and requires the board of trustees of each school district to establish a program of incentive pay for certain employees of the school district. Individuals eligible for grant: (1) Licensed teachers, school psychologists, school librarians, school counselors and administrators employed at the school level who have been employed in that category of position for at least 5 years in the state or another state and who are employed in schools which are at-risk; and (2) Teachers who hold an endorsement in the field of mathematics, science, special education, English as a second language or other area of need within the school district, as determined by the state superintendent.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/23rdSpecial/Bills/AB/AB1_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 1A
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us
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| 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/
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Revises provisions governing the review of school districts based upon financial management principles. Revises provisions governing the preliminary report of the review and requires the consultant to submit the preliminary report to the superintendent of the school district or the superintendent's designee for preparation of a written response of the school district. Also makes the preliminary report confidential until the final report has been submitted.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/74th/Bills/AB/AB244_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 244
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | If a municipality proposes to issue or incur general obligation bonds, the proposal must be submitted to the electors at an election. Provides that such a question may authorize the transfer of any excess revenue generated to the fund for capital projects of the school district for the payment of capital projects which can lawfully be paid from that fund. Increases the amount of the guarantee of each school district outstanding at any one time to $40,000,000.
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/74th/Bills/AB/AB615_EN.pdf
Title: A.B. 615
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/
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| OK | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Creates to continue until December 31, 2007, the School Funding Formula Task Force. The task force is to review the statutorily created formula for funding the public schools of this state and make recommendations regarding the following: 1. Modernization of the formula; 2. The ability to determine how categorical funds are expended; 3. Issues raised by recent school finance litigation; and 4. Any other modifications to the formula that would enhance the state's ability to provide every child with quality instruction.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2007-08bills/SB/SB925_ENR.RTF
Title: S.B. 925
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Relates to the guaranteed yield of school district enrichment taxes to fund the maintenance and operations of public schools.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/pdf/HB00828F.pdf
Title: H.B. 828
Source: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| MN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Establishes the school finance reform task force. Task force goals include: (1) creating a standard and index to ensure that the formula remains adequate over time; (2) simplifying the remaining school formulas; (3) analyzing categorical funding formulas, including but not limited to pupil transportation, compensatory revenue, and limited English proficiency revenue; (4) establishing a schedule for implementation of the other new formulas; and (5) examining the role of the regional delivery structure including the functions performed by intermediate school districts, service cooperatives, education districts, and other cooperative organizations. Defines membership and duties.
http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/bin/unoff_eng.php?session=ls85&version=latest&session_number=0&session_year=2007&number=hf2245
Title: H.F. 2245 [School Finance]
Source: http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Provides full-time Average Number Belonging funding for school districts that enroll students in full-time kindergarten. Provides start-up funding for districts transitioning from half-day to full-day programs. A kindergarten program must meet the state minimum aggregate hour requirements. A kindergarten program that is designated as a full-time program must allow a parent, guardian or other person who is responsible for the enrollment of a child in school to enroll the child half-time.
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/specsess/0507/billhtml/SB0002.htm
Title: S.B. 2A (Kindergarten)
Source: http://data.opi.mt.gov
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Changes procedure relating to elections to exceed the property tax levy limit. Specifies that the method of voting at the meeting will protect the secrecy of the ballot.
http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB289.pdf
Title: L.B. 289
Source: http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Relates to school breakfast funding. Changes the basis for the state reimbursement of the school breakfast program from the current year to the second preceding year. The current reimbursement amount of $.05 per school breakfast served is retained. Current law allowing the appropriation to be pro-rated if sufficient funds are not appropriated is repealed.
http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB73.pdf
Title: L.A. 73
Source: http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Relates to educational service units and school funding, incuding distance education. Changes provisions relating to: election of board members for educational service units; distance education, unit boundaries and board membership; and the Early Childhood Education Grant Program. Provides: a formula and changes provisions relating to core services and technology infrastructure funding; for election districts; a duty for the Auditor of Public Accounts.
http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB603.pdf
Title: L.B. 603
Source: http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/
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| WA | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | The legislature declares its intent to clarify the law authorizing investment of the Permanent Common School Fund in equities when the investment is in the best interest of the state and the Permanent Common School Fund. The legislative findings and declarations of intent also describe the reasoning of the Attorney General's Opinion and the need for more growth in the
Permanent Common School Fund, given the gap between the Permanent Common School Fund's income and actual expenditures on school construction. The WSIB has the authority to invest the Permanent Common School Fund to achieve a balance of long-term growth and current income. Statutes governing the Permanent Fund and the WSIB's investment authority are amended to reflect this change.
http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202007/2396.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 2396
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to the income tax review schedule; deletes certain sections for review; provides for 2012 review of sections regarding charitable organizations, school tuition organizations, public school fees and contributions and donation of school sites. (Chapter No. 7)
Title: H.B. 2079
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2007 | Community College
Postsec. | Concerns provisional community college districts and aid; provides for continuation. (Chapter No. 13)
Removes wording eliminating the districts as of July 1, 2009
Title: H.B. 2193
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Relates to charter schools, fingerprinting and a civil penalty if a charter school fails to comply with fingerprinting requirements. New provision provides that penalties shall be assessed by reducing the amount of state aid that the charter school would otherwise receive. (Chapter No. 6)
http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/48leg/1r/bills/hb2041o.asp
Title: H.B. 2041
Source: http://www.azleg.gov/
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Authorizes that in years when the legislature meets in regular session or in a special session that affects school funding, the trustees may order the election on a date other than the regular school election day in order for the electors to consider a proposition requesting additional funding.
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2007/billhtml/SB0225.htm
Title: S.B. 225
Source: http://data.opi.mt.gov
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| MT | Issued 04/2007 | P-12 | Requests that the legislative council designate an appropriate interim or statutory committee, or direct sufficient staff resources to: (1) (a) examine future demographics of property taxpayers, school age children, retirees and other factors relating to the viability of property taxes to fund education; and (b) examine the distribution or maldistribution of classes of taxable property in counties and school districts; (2) study the feasibility of a statewide school equalization district with property tax levies against particular classes of property and other sources of statewide revenue; and (3) study the use of a sales tax and use tax for funding to replace property taxes and provide tax relief for homes, commercial properties, and agricultural and forest lands. Further resolves that: (1) all aspects of the study be concluded prior to September 15, 2008; and (2) the final results of the study, including any findings, conclusions, comments, or recommendations of the appropriate committee, be reported to the 61st Legislature.
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2007/billhtml/SJ0031.htm
Title: S.J.R. 31
Source: http://data.opi.mt.gov/
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Establishes a home school student activities program unit.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/SB1098.pdf
Title: S.B. 1098
Source: http://legis.state.nm.us
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2007 | P-12 | Relates to school finance, makes cash balance credits proportional to the size of the excess cash balance.
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/SB0159.pdf
Title: S.B. 159
Source: http://legis.state.nm.us
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| NM | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Raises the allowable limit on cash balances a school district may keep. Changes the basis for calculating excess cash balances by referring to the "unrestricted, unreserved cash balance and emergency reserve" rather than the "allowable limit".
http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/final/HB0059.pdf
Title: H.B. 59
Source: http://legis.state.nm.us
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| AL | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Reallocates to the State Executive Commission on Community Services Grants an appropriation from the Education Trust Fund to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Community Services Grants.
Title: S.J.R. 3A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Makes a supplemental appropriation from the Education Trust Fund in the State Treasury to the State Department of Education, for Enterprise High School to cover
repairs to facilities damaged in tornado. (Act 2007-133)
http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACTIONViewFrame.asp?TYPE=Instrument&INST=HB141&DOCPATH=searchableinstruments/2007RS/Printfiles/&PHYDOCPATH=//alisdb/acas/searchableinstruments/2007RS/PrintFiles/&DOCNAMES=HB141-int.pdf,HB141-eng.pdf,HB141-enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 141
Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Amends existing law to require that property from an estate with no heirs or other claimants be paid to the Public School Permanent Endowment Fund; provides for distribution of funds received as unclaimed dividends and interest paid by Idaho corporations to the Public School Permanent Endowment Fund; provides for recapture from the Public School Earnings Reserve Fund if certain circumstances occur. Session Law Chapter 97
http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1098.html
Title: S.B. 1098
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Relates to public school finances; requires local share to be calculated assuming properties are being assessed at sixty percent of market value; increases the limit on revenue generated by the regular school board levy; amends "growth county" definition and clarifies what new property values to include for the purposes of the Growth County School Facilities Act; increases state aid to counties by reducing the percentage used to calculate levies for general current expense purposes subject to exception; provides for a refundable property tax credit for real property taxes paid in excess of a certain percent of income; requires that a library funding obligation created by special act be paid from certain funds; limits a library funding obligation; allows, under certain conditions, a transfer of the library funding obligation so that the obligation is paid from excess levy revenues; voids the library funding obligation under certain conditions; and provides extraordinary sustained increased enrollment impact supplement. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2007_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/SB541%20SUB2%20enr.htm
Title: S.B. 541
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/
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| WY | Vetoed 03/2007 | P-12 | Requires federal mineral royalties above $200 million to be deposited to the common school account within the permanent land fund after the required deposit into another account has been made. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/Enroll/HB0278.pdf
Title: H.B. 278
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/bills.htm
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Authorizes the participating school boards of a joint school, including academic year Governor's Schools operated by two or more school divisions, to select the fiscal agent for the joint school from among the treasurers of the participating localities; requires that the participating school boards must agree and the respective local governing bodies must approve any such selection. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2371ER
Title: H.B. 2371
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Requires the state superintendent of public instruction to review at-risk program strategies funded under the block grant model, specifically including alternative schools and imposes a moratorium on new alternative schools recognized under the model during the review period; continues the summer school & extended day programs during school year 2007-2008; also requires the state superintendent to study and develop recommendations on distance education programs and to establish a task force for this purpose. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/Enroll/HB0115.pdf
Title: H.B. 115
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/bills.htm
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| NE | Signed into law 01/2007 | P-12 | Relates to the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act. Changes provisions relating to cost growth factor.
http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Final/LB21.pdf
Title: L.B. 21
Source: http://uniweb.legislature.ne.gov/
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| MT | Rule Adoption 12/2006 | P-12 | Adopts and amends rules relating to quality educator payments, at-risk student payments - general fund, Indian education for all payments, American Indian achievement gap payments - general fund and school finance.
http://www.opi.mt.gov/pdf/legaldivision/10-7-115pro-arm.pdf
Title: ARM 10.7.106, .106A, .113 through .115,10.10.301 to .315, 10.15.101, 10.16.3804, .3811, .3812, .3816, 10.20.102 to 10.30.415
Source: http://www.opi.mt.gov/pdf/legaldivision/10-7-115pro-arm.pdf
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| AL | Approved by voters 11/2006 | P-12 | Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to require at least 10 mills of property tax are levied for every school district in the state.
http://www.sos.state.al.us/downloads/dl3.cfm?trgturl=election/2006/general/statecert-constitutionalamendments-2006-08-31.pdf&trgtfile=statecert-constitutionalamendments-2006-08-31.pdf
Title: Statewide Amendment Number Two
Source: http://www.sos.state.al.us
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| 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/
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| WY | Emergency Rule Adoption 10/2006 | P-12 | Establishes emergency rules regarding the criteria and standards for the School Foundation Program, which provides a guaranteed level of funding that is essentially a block grant to every public school district based on a number of factors--the most important of which is the number of students enrolled in the district in the prior year. http://soswy.state.wy.us/RULES/6384.pdf
Title: Chapter 8
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2006 | P-12 | Establishes the Flexible Funding for Pupil Achievement Program. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer the program. Permits a specified percentage of schools in the state to participate in the program at any one time. Requires the Superintendent to ensure a balance of elementary, middle, and high schools and urban, suburban and rural schools among participating schools. Requires the governing board of a district to adopt a participation agreement containing specified provisions.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0751-0800/ab_756_bill_20060914_enrolled.pdf
Title: A.B. 756
Source: California Legislature
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| MS | Signed into law 09/2006 | P-12 | Establishes an emergency aid grants program for local governments, including public school districts.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20061E/html/HB/0001-0099/HB0005SG.htm
Title: H.B. 5A
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/
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| MI | Rejected by voters 08/2006 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Would require the state to provide annual funding increases equal to the rate of inflation for public schools, intermediate school districts, community colleges and higher education. Would require state to fund any deficiencies in the school aid fund from the general fund. Relates to base funding for school districts with declining enrollment. Reduces and caps retirement fund contributions (Ballot Number 06-5) .
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Statewide_Bal_Prop_Status_145801_7.pdf
Title: V. 6 (Prop. 5)
Source: http://www.michigan.gov/
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| 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
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Recodifies provisions of the executive budget act and the capital improvement planning act into a state budget act that revises and clarifies the procedures for preparing, enacting and administering the state buget. Requires all state agencies and non-state entities expending any state funds to expend them in accordance this policy.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2005/Bills/House/HTML/H914v4.html
Title: H.B. 914
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/
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| NY | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Provides protection to any employee of a school district board of cooperative educational services or charter school who having reasonable cause to suspect that the fiscal practices or actions of an employee or officer of a school district, board of cooperative educational services, or charter school violates law, reports such information.
Title: A.B. 8925
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Signed into law 07/2006 | P-12 | Directs the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, working with the Department of Administration, to establish a statewide purchasing system for products and services pertaining to public schools, which would include telecommunications, wireless services, general insurance products and services, and school transportation for children with special needs. Public Law No. 298
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText06/HouseText06/H6853.pdf
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText06/HouseText06/H6853A.pdf
Title: H.B. 6853; S.B. 2531
Source: Rhode Island Legislature
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| DE | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Implements enhanced financial accountability provisions for public school districts and charter schools; relates to district and charter school financial responsibility. Chapter Number 264
http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/lis143.nsf/vwLegislation/SB+308/$file/legis.html?open
Title: S.B. 308
Source: Delaware Legislature
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| OK | Adopted 05/2006 | P-12 | Changes the process school districts use to claim federal program funds. Implements an electronic reimbursement program which will allow school districts the ability to access their federal funds using a draw-down method.
http://www.oar.state.ok.us/register/Volume-23_Issue-24.htm
Title: OAC 210-25-3-7
Source: http://www.oar.state.ok.us/
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Requires the commissioner, in consultation with the comptroller, to develop and implement a financial accountability
rating system for school districts in this state that: (1) distinguishes among school districts based on levels of financial performance; and
(2) includes procedures to: (A) provide additional transparency to public education finance; and (B) enable the commissioner and school district administrators to provide meaningful financial oversight and improvement.
The commissioner shall annually establish and publish the proposed expenditures for each school district as determined by the
commissioner based on an evaluation of information relating to the best practices of campuses and districts. The commissioner shall consider unique characteristics of the district, including the district's size. The proposed expenditures must include amounts for: (1) instructional expenditures; (2) central administrative expenditures; (3) district operations; and (4) any other category designated by the commissioner.
If the board of trustees of a school district intends to exceed the proposed expenditures established by the commissioner, the board must adopt and publish a resolution that includes an explanation justifying the board's actions.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/data/docmodel/793/billtext/pdf/HB00001F.PDF
Title: H.B. 1 C (Sections 2.05; 2.09)
Source: Texas Legislature
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Requires detailed financial impact statements for administrative rules promulgated by the state board.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2006S1/public/HB1016.pdf
Title: H.B. 1016A
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2005 | P-12 | Existing law establishes the State Instructional Materials Fund and continuously appropriates the money in the fund to the State
Department of Education. This bill would extend the operation of these provisions to January 1, 2008, and would require the state board to annually solicit recommendations from school districts regarding the adoption of instructional materials.
Title: S.B. 657
Source: StateNet
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12
Community College | Requires political subdivisions to establish procedures to give first priority for donation of their surplus computer equipment to public elementary and secondary schools in the state and community and technical colleges under the management and control of the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana Community and Technical Colleges.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=318391
Title: S.B. 218
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| LA | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 39:1351(A) and (B), 1352, 1353, and 1354, and to enact R.S. 17:10.1(C). Requires the state board to define "financially at risk" as a status of any city, parish, or other local school board the unresolved finding of which subjects the school system and its board to specified statutory provisions regarding the judicial appointment of a fiscal administrator. Requires every local board to be notified on a regular basis by the department of education of its status related to the elements of the definition of financially at risk. Clarifies provisions relating to the determination that a political subdivision is to be appointed a fiscal administrator. Adds that in the case of a local school board, upon notification by the state superintendent of education, the attorney general must file a rule for a fiscal administrator to be appointed to the district when, the legislative auditor, the attorney general and the state treasurer unanimously determine that such local board is reasonably certain to fail to resolve its status as financially at risk as that status has been defined by rule by the state board for ensuring the fiscal soundness of all public school systems, pursuant to R.S. 17:10.1(C). Adds that a court must appoint a fiscal administrator to a political subdivision if the court finds from the facts and evidence deduced at the hearing of the rule that the political subdivision is reasonably certain to not have sufficient revenue to pay current expenditures, excluding civil judgments, or, in the case of a city, parish, or other local public school board, reasonably certain to fail to resolve its status as financially at risk as defined by the state board.
Adds that the fiscal administrator's report subsequent to his investigation may, rather than existing requirements regarding amendments to the political subdivision's comprehensive budget, include amendments that will insure having sufficient revenue to pay current expenditures, excluding civil judgments, or, in the case of a city, parish, or other local public school board, amendments that will insure resolving its status as financially at risk as defined by the state board. Adds that the fiscal administrator's report may, rather than existing requirements regarding estimates of the political subdivision's funding level needs, identify the funding level needed in order to have sufficient revenue to pay current expenditures, excluding civil judgments, or, in the case of a city, parish, or other local public school board, as is needed to resolve its status as financially at risk as defined by the state board.
Establishes additional requirements for such political subdivisions and districts.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=316582
Title: S.B. 307
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Allows motor vehicles seized by law enforcement agencies to be donated to school districts for driver's education courses. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2005/public/hb2828.pdf
Title: H.B. 2828
Source: StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Repealed the following provision and related provisions: The General Assembly, being mindful of the primary obligation of the state to provide an adequate education for the citizens of this state under Article VIII, Section I, Paragraph I of the Constitution of Georgia, and being mindful of the authority vested in the General Assembly under Article VIII, Section VII of the Constitution of Georgia to discharge all obligations of the state to provide an adequate education for its citizens by providing for grants of state, county, or municipal funds to such citizens for educational purposes, and being further particularly mindful of the need for a literate and informed society in all events, declares it to be the purpose and intent of this article to encourage and aid the education of all children of this state by implementing Article VIII, Section VII of the Constitution of Georgia by making provision for payment of education grants from public funds to the extent and in the manner as provided in this article. . . . 20-2-642.
Every child between the ages of six and 19 years residing in this state who has not finished or graduated from high school and who is otherwise eligible and qualified to attend the elementary and secondary public schools of the local school system wherein such child resides shall, in lieu of attending the public schools of such local school system, be eligible to receive an education grant to be expended for the purpose of paying or otherwise defraying the cost of tuition at a nonsectarian private school located in any state of the United States or a public school located outside this state but within some other state of the United States, in the amount and manner provided by and subject to this article.
20-2-643.
The amount of each education grant that may be paid under this article per school year shall not exceed:
(1) The actual amount expended or to be expended by parents in payment of the tuition cost of attendance of their child or ward at a school which by the terms of this article qualified such child to receive such grant; or
(2) The average state cost per pupil in average daily attendance in the public schools of this state for the school year immediately preceding the school year for which the education grant is to be paid, to be determined by dividing the state-wide average daily attendance figure in the public schools of this state during the preceding school year into the total amount of state education funds allotted to all public school systems of this state for the preceding school year under Article 6 of this chapter excluding state allotments for capital outlay purposes,
whichever of the two sums is the lesser. Only one education grant shall be paid on behalf of any school child eligible to receive a grant during any one school-year period as defined by law.http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/versions/hb27_HB_27_AP_8.htm
Title: H.B. 27
Source: http://www.legis.state.ga.us
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Appropriates $283,113,100 for the Educational Support Program/Division of Operations for fiscal year 2006; provides for expenditures for certain technology and remediation programs; appropriates moneys for property tax replacement; provides an estimate of discretionary funds per support unit; amends and repeals existing law to reduce minimum support guaranteed to a district.
Title: S.B. 1223
Source: StateNet
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| 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
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| KS | Became law without governor's signature 04/2005 | P-12 | Creates a school district audit team within the division of post audit. Requires the school district audit team to conduct performance
audits and monitor school district funding and other oversight issues through audit work as directed by the 2010 commission. States that the topics for school district performance audits may include:
(1) The accuracy of school expenditures, reports or other information;
(2) how school districts use the funding received from the state;
(3) the relationship between school funding levels and costs;
(4) the weights of various education program components or the level
of equity achieved by the funding system;
(5) whether funding levels for education programs or students are
keeping up with the actual costs school districts report;
(6) the basis for changes in school district costs;
(7) the reasonableness of the amount and type of actual or budgeted
expenditures compared with historical costs or with costs of other districts;
(8) options for modifying the school funding formula;
(9) other finance issues identified as needing further study;
(10) whether a school district has adequate operating or administrative
procedures and fiscal controls and whether it is efficiently managed;
(11) best practices or innovative procedures, practices or controls operating
within any school districts that could present opportunities for
other school districts to operate more efficiently; and
(12) any other topic as directed by the 2010 commission.
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 4-5)
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | Creates a Commission on Restructuring the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) to revise certain components and creates a commission to study the effectiveness and efficiency of the administration of college tuition assistance programs administered by the institutions of higher learning.
Title: S.B. 2731
Source: StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | AN ACT GENERALLY REVISING SCHOOL FINANCE LAWS; ALLOWING SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO LEASE PERSONAL PROPERTY; EXPANDING THE USES FOR CERTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT FUNDS; CHANGING A BUDGET DEADLINE FOR JOINT DISTRICTS; INCREASING THE ENTITLEMENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR SCHOOL FISCAL YEAR 2006 AND SCHOOL FISCAL YEAR 2007; PROVIDING FOR 3-YEAR AVERAGING OF ANB FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS WITH DECLINING ENROLLMENT FOR SCHOOL FISCAL YEAR 2006 AND SCHOOL FISCAL YEAR 2007; ALLOWING A SCHOOL DISTRICT TO PERMISSIVELY LEVY UP TO THE SAME OVER-BASE PROPERTY TAX REVENUE LEVIED IN THE PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR; REVISING CERTAIN CALCULATIONS FOR GUARANTEED TAX BASE FUNDING; REVISING THE LIMITATIONS ON SCHOOL DISTRICT BONDED INDEBTEDNESS; CONFORMING CERTAIN STATUTES TO CURRENT LAW; REMOVING A REFERENCE TO A ONE-TIME-ONLY STATE PAYMENT TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS; TEMPORARILY EXTENDING SCHOOL ELECTION DEADLINES; PROVIDING FOR INTERDISTRICT AGREEMENTS FOR FUND TRANSFERS BY FEBRUARY 1 OF THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR; AMENDING SECTIONS 20-5-323, 20-6-607, 20-7-102, 20-9-130, 20-9-131, 20-9-142, 20-9-151, 20-9-152, 20-9-306, 20-9-308, 20-9-311, 20-9-314, 20-9-321, 20-9-353, 20-9-366, 20-9-406, AND 20-9-443, MCA; REPEALING SECTION 20-9-375, MCA; AND PROVIDING EFFECTIVE DATES, APPLICABILITY DATES, AND TERMINATION DATES
Title: H.B. 63
Source: StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | AN ACT to provide an appropriation for defraying the expenses of the department of public instruction, the school for the deaf, North Dakota vision services - school for the blind, and the state library; to provide an appropriation to the division of independent study; to provide for the distribution of special education payments; to provide for a legislative council study; to provide a statement of legislative intent; to amend and reenact section 15.1-02-02 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the salary of the superintendent of public instruction; and to declare an emergency
The legislative council shall study, during the 2005-06 interim, the state's elementary and secondary education system, including
key measurements of student progress, programs that address the state's competitiveness with other
states, costs incurred by the state relating to implementing the No Child Left Behind Act, and the most
effective means of using taxpayer dollars at the state and local levels to ensure the best possible
education for the children of this state.
http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-text/FQNG0500.pdf
Title: H.B. 1013
Source: http://www.state.nd.us
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Specifies that the teachers' professional growth fund is to provide teachers with high quality professional development in content knowledge in reading and classroom-based screening, diagnostic, assessment and intervention strategies. States that the fund may be used to provide grants to local school districts to support staff participation in specific, statewide initiatives for the professional development of teachers and administrators in specific content areas as established by the Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Board of Education as established in this bill; to provide grants to colleges and universities to plan and develop statewide professional development institutes and other professional development services; and to provide grants to local school districts, to colleges and universities, or other entities to assist the Kentucky Department of Education in evaluating costs and the effectiveness of activities and initiatives established under the teachers' professional growth fund.
Requires that professional development programs for which teachers may receive support from the fund provide training in the use of research-based and developmentally appropriate classroom-based screening, diagnostic, assessment, and intervention strategies.
Requires that, beginning June 1, 2006, through the 2009-2010 school year, priority for the use of funds from the teachers' professional growth fund be to train and support teams of teachers from all school levels to be trained as reading coaches and mentors or as mathematics coaches and mentors in statewide institutes referenced in Sections 1 and 2 of this bill, and for selected teachers to be highly trained in providing diagnostic assessment and intervention services for students in the primary program struggling with mathematics.
Requires the design of the statewide mathematics institutes to train mathematics coaches and mentors to be developed by the Committee for Mathematics Achievement. Requires the design of the professional development program to provide highly trained mathematics intervention teachers in the primary program to be developed by the Center for Mathematics in collaboration with public and private institutions of postsecondary education.
Requires that the development of the statewide program to train reading coaches and mentors be coordinated by the Kentucky Department of Education with recommendations from the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development and the reading steering committee established in KRS 158.794. Mandates that the design of the program reflect a consensus of the agencies involved in the development of the program. Requires the training program for reading coaches and mentors to complement other statewide reading initiatives, funded with state and federal funds, and that the program give priority to teachers in grades 4-12. Requires that the program be implemented no later than June 1, 2006.
Declares an emergency.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93/FN.doc
Title: H.B. 93 (Sections 5 and 6)
Source: lrc.ky.gov
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Creates the mathematics achievement fund to provide developmentally appropriate diagnostic assessment and intervention services to students, primary through grade 12, to help them reach proficiency in mathematics on the state assessments and in compliance with the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Specifies activities for which fund monies may be used. Specifies that the fund is to provide funding for the Center for Mathematics created in this bill, provide renewable, two-year local grants to school districts for specified purposes, and provide operational funding for the Mathematics Achievement Committee created in Section 2 of this bill. Specifies that if matching funds are required, the school council or, if none exists, the principal or the superintendent of schools, must allocate matching funds. Allows funding for professional development allocated to the school council under KRS 160.345 and for continuing education under KRS 158.070 to be used to provide a portion or all of a school's required match. Specifies responsibilities of the department of education relative to the fund program, including technical assistance to potential applicants and grant recipients.
Declares an emergency.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93/FN.doc
Title: H.B. 93 (Section 3)
Source: lrc.ky.gov
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| 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
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| NE | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Relates to schools. Provides for payment adjustments to reflect transfers of property as prescribed.
(1) State aid payments shall be adjusted to reflect transfers of property due to annexation, to any dissolution of a Class I school district, and to any reorganization involving one or more Class I school districts.
Title: L.B. 198
Source: StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Adds new section: § 23-2.3. Annual reporting of the use of student fees. Requires each public two- and four-year institution of higher education to publish annually a descriptive report detailing the (i) amount and distribution of student activity fees assessed each semester or during an academic year; and (ii) the name of each organization, including the nature of the organization's activity, that receives funding of $100 or more from student activity fees. Also requires each institution to post the annual report of the use of student activity fees to its website to facilitate access and availability of the report to students enrolled at the institution and their parents. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0532
Title: H.B. 1816
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2005 | P-12 | Unless otherwise provided by law, all civil or administrative fines or penalties collected under this article are to be paid over to the state treasurer to be credited to the public school fund of the county in which the violation for which the fine or penalty was imposed. Amends civil penalties that may be imposed by the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and provides for payment of penalties (ranges from $5,000-$10,000 for each violation and for each day a violation continues) into the public school fund. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2005/enroll/SF0073.pdf
Title: S.F. 73
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us
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| ME | Signed into law 01/2005 | P-12 | Increases the State share of education costs; provides for reduction in property taxes; reduces government spending at all levels; provides a formula for adjustment of levy calculation; creates the Maine Budget Stabilization Fund; provides for transfers from and excess of General Fund revenues; concerns the Highway Fund; concerns calculation of long-term growth rate limitation; establishes limitation on municipal appropriations; concerns mill rates, special education costs.
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280014321&LD=1&Type=1&SessionID=6
Title: H.P. 6
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12 | Provides for the creation and operation of a cooperative bulk purchasing program for school districts, public school academies, nonpublic schools, and intermediate school districts on a fee basis to reduce the costs of purchasing goods and services by the Department of Management and Budget.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-5913
Title: H.B. 5913
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2004 | P-12 | Provides for inapplicability of school district requirements to obtain competitive bids for purchasing if the school district makes purchase through the cooperative bulk purchasing program through the Department of Management and Budget.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-5875
Title: H.B. 5875
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 11/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Treasury to conduct random financial audits of intermediate school districts.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2004-HB-5457
Title: H.B. 5457
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Permits a county committee on school district organization to abolish a common governing board of an elementary school district and a high school district upon a vote of the electors of the school districts. Provides that an election relating to a school district reorganization may be held solely by mail, with certain requirements, and that an election may not be called for a petition to transfer uninhabited territory. Provides procedures for a charter school affected by reorganization. Relates to school district bonds. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2801-2850/ab_2841_bill_20040816_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_2841_veto.pdf
Title: A.B. 2841
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | SEC. 1: Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction on the financial condition of a school district if the county superintendent determines a school district may be unable to meet its financial obligations for the current or 2 subsequent fiscal years or if a school district has a qualified or negative certification. Existing law requires the county superintendent to take at least one of certain actions and all actions that are necessary to ensure that the district meets its financial obligations.
This bill requires those possible actions to include assigning the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to review district teacher hiring practices, teacher retention rate, percentage of provision of highly qualified teachers, and the extent of teacher misassignment and
also to provide the district with recommendations to streamline and improve the teacher hiring process, teacher retention rate, extent of
teacher misassignment, and provision of highly qualified teachers. The bill requires a school district that is assigned this review to follow the recommendations made unless it shows good cause for failure to do so. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_3001-3050/ab_3001_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 3001 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| MI | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides school aid zero budget for fiscal year 2005. http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/publicact/pdf/2004-PA-0351.pdf
Title: S.B. 1069
Source: StateNet
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| 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
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| NY | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Provides for the funding of certain approved non- public special education programs and special act public school districts including making changes in the reimbursement methodology for tuition and maintenance and makes an appropriation therefor; allows such districts to retain a portion of annual budget for unexpected expenditures; makes numerous other related provisions. Allows such districts to retain up to 2.5% of annual budget for unexpected expenditures and makes numerous other related provisions; also authorizes a surplus factor of not more than two percent.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=s2917
Title: S.B. 2917
Source: StateNet
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| 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
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| MT | Rule Adoption 07/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules relating to school finance and transportation. MONTANA REG 4551 (SN)
Title: ARM 10.7.101,.109 thru .111,.115,.118;10.10.202,.309,.316, .320, .611, .614; 10.15.101; 10.20.102, .106; 10.21.101B thru .102E (non-seq),10.22.102 thru .30.403 (non-seq)
Source: WestLaw
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Removes the restriction on accommodation school districts located on a military base from issuing impact aid revenue bonds. The district may hold an election to raise impact aid revenue bonds but may not issue the bonds until after the Federal Base Relocation and Closure Commission has affirmed that the base will remain open. Additionally, the bill requires the Arizona Department of Education to put together a guidebook on the approved uses federal impact aid monies. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0313.htm
Title: H.B. 2010
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Sets aside funds in federal impact aid for the establishment of a military liaison position within the department of education and to provide funding for the Joint Venture Education Program to facilitate interaction between the military community and the department of education.
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2004/bills/hb1908_cd1_.htm
Title: H.B. 1908
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Amends the School Code. Relates to the basis for apportionment of general State financial aid and supplemental State aid to the common schools; provides for school district claims. Provides that some school districts are not required to exert a minimum Operating Tax Rate in order to qualify for assistance. Relates to corporate personal property replacement taxes. Provides for children with disabilities below the age of six years. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0679
Title: S.B. 1553
Source: Illinois Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | Postsec. | Creates the Louisiana State University National Champions and Southern University Black College National Champions prestige license plates. Each license issued shall be assessed a one-time $25 royalty fee, which monies must be used solely for academic or financial need-based scholarships for Louisiana State University and Southern University Black College. The management boards of the institutions shall be responsible for disbursing the funds and for establishing the scholarship program. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LPIA.PDF
Title: H.B. 246
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Provides relative to Education Excellence Fund amounts and related investment earnings credited to ineligible entities. Provides that fund
amounts and related investment earnings credited for a recipient entity shall revert to the fund whenever the entity no longer meets the conditions required for it to be eligible for fund allocations; to provide for an effective date; and to provide for related matters.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT2/OUT/0000LUNG.PDF
Title: H.B. 666
Source: StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Allows school districts to use Impact Aid for teacher housing.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0209.htm
Title: H.B. 2475
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| FL | Became law without governor's signature 05/2004 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Relates to education funding; requires school districts to establish certain policies and procedures regarding lottery fund enhancements; provides tax credit cap for contributions to nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations; prohibits use of funds for lab schools for certain overhead or indirect costs; redesignates specified community colleges as colleges; specifies maximum fee waiver percentage for school districts and community colleges; authorizes use of the Dale Hickam Excellent Teaching Program funds; requires reports regarding inmate education provided by community colleges; authorizes Florida State University to construct classroom building. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=hb1867er.html&Directory=session/2004/House/bills/billtext/html/
Title: H.B. 1867
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Requires a person or organization sponsoring a distinctive license plate to submit to the Division of Vehicles a nonrefundable amount not to exceed $10,000 to defray the division's cost for developing the distinctive license plate; discontinues issuance of distinctive license plates and educational institution license plates in quantities of fewer that 500 plates. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/2947.pdf and http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2004/SN2947.pdf and http://www.kslegislature.org/fiscalnotes/2004/2947.pdf
Title: H.B. 2947
Source: StateNet
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| 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
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| MN | To governor 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to education finance; provides for K-12 education; amends provisions regarding school safety patrol apparel, capital expenditures, pupil transportation, vocational instruction, special education, essential personnel, parents residing separately, property tax levy, academic standards, graduation requirements, prescription nonsyringe injectors of epinephrine, immunity from liability, teachers, nonpublic schools and charter schools.
http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/slaws/2004/c294.html
Title: H.F. 1793
Source: StateNet
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| 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
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| MS | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Relates to Adequate Education Program; deletes repealer on high growth school district formula.
If during the year for which adequate education program funds are appropriated, any school district experiences a three percent (3%) or greater increase in average daily attendance during the second and third month over the preceding year's second and third month and the school district has requested a minimum increase of four percent (4%) in local ad valorem revenues over the previous year as authorized in Sections 37-57-104 and 37-57-105, an additional allocation of adequate education program funds calculated in the following manner shall be granted to that district, using any additional funds available to the Department of Education that exceed the amount of funds due to the school districts under the basic adequate education program distribution as provided for in this chapter:
The State Department of Education shall study and develop a report to the Chairmen of the Senate and House Committees on Education by January 1, 2005, with options for legislative consideration that will insure that the Mississippi Adequate Education funds are distributed to school districts based on current year student attendance or enrollment. This subsection (4) shall stand repealed on July 1, 2006
Title: H.B. 741
Source: StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Regulates distinctive license plates; requires an organization sponsoring a distinctive license plate to submit a nonrefundable fee; creates the distinctive license plate fund to deposit the distinctive license plate application fees; discontinues issuance of distinctive license plates in small quantities; provides for issuance of educational institution license plates, firefighter license plates and the helping schools license plate. Bill: http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2004/2143.pdf and supplemental note: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2004/SN2143.pdf
Title: H.B. 2143
Source: StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent and the Department of Education to monitor the financial status of each county board of education and report to the Governor and General Assembly on a biannual basis; requires local superintendents or chief executive officers of local school systems to file biannual reports and to make specified attestations; provides that if a local school system does not file a annual audit, the Superintendent is required to instruct the Comptroller to withhold 10% of state aid installments.
Title: S.B. 894
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Clarifies that all school districts – not just those school districts within a county – can make joint purchases of maintenance, operational and scholastic services, supplies, materials, and equipment.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/HB/0600-0699/HB0667SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 667
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Provides the State Auditor with authority to establish effective and efficient policies and procedures for auditing student attendance and data in local school districts. In particular, the State Auditor will have more flexibility regarding on-site audits and authority to establish specific policies and procedures to audit the processes, accuracy, validity and procedures used by local school districts to submit electronic student data and other data to the State Department of Education.
Reviews and audits shall be conducted with advance notice, except that unannounced audits may be made upon determination of the State Auditor based on complaints or valid concerns. In addition, examiners shall make every effort to work with school districts in scheduling audits in consideration of instructional activities such as statewide testing.
The State Board of Education shall include reporting standards for school districts as part of the accreditation process to include penalties within the accreditation system for adverse findings resulting from reviews or audits.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2004/pdf/HB/1200-1299/HB1251SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 1251
Source: StateNet
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| MI | To HOUSE Committee on EDUCATION. 03/2004 | P-12 | Makes school aid requirements subject to a waiver under an educational flexibility and empowerment contract.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/house/pdf/2003-HNB-4724.pdf
Title: H.B. 4724
Source: http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/house/pdf/2003-HNB-4724.pdf
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| AR | Signed into law 01/2004 | P-12 | Requires audit reports of school districts not conducted by legislative audit to be filed with the Department of Education by December 31 following the end of each fiscal year.http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2003s2/public/HB1114.pdf
Title: H.B. 1114
Source: Arkansas Legislative Web site
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| MA | Rule Adoption 01/2004 | P-12 | Amends rules relating to school finance regulations. Implements changes in the formula used to calculate special education reimbursements in the so-called circuit breaker program. Clarifies that payments and reimbursements for approved private school summer program placements will be made through the sending school district. MASSACHUSETTS REG 8229 (SN)
Title: 603 CMR 10.00
Source: StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 12/2003 | P-12 | Provides for multisection school aid supplemental appropriations.
Title: S.B. 556
Source: http://www.michiganlegislature.org/mileg.asp?page=getObject&objName=2003-SB-0556
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| AR | Rule Adoption 11/2003 | P-12 | Establishes rules identifying and governing the Arkansas Fiscal Assessment and Accountability Program. http://arkedu.state.ar.us/pdf/ade%20158%20fiscal%20assessment.pdf
Title: ADE 158
Source: Arkansas State Web site
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| NY | November 2003 11/2003 | P-12 | Constitution Amendment: Asks voters to eliminate school districts that are coterminous with, or partly within, or wholly within a city having less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants, from the entities subject to a general constitutional debt limitation. http://www.elections.state.ny.us/2003_statewide_ballot_questions.pdf
Title: Constitutional Amendment # 2
Source: New York State Web site
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| OH | Did Not Pass 11/2003 | Postsec. | Constitutional Amendment that authorizes state and local governments to issue bonds and provide other financial assistance to support "science and technology based research and development purposes," including biomedical and other research, new product development and commercialization, capital formation, operating costs, and support for public and private institutions of higher education, research organizations, institutions or facilities, and private sector business and industry, as may be provided for by state or local law, but excluding purposes already provided for in Section 15 of Article VIII of the Ohio Constitution. http://serform.sos.state.oh.us/sos/results/2003/issue/lang.htm and http://election.sos.state.oh.us/Results/CountyBreakdownOracle.aspx
Title: State Issue 1
Source: Ohio State Web site
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| MI | Signed into law 10/2003 | P-12 | Provides for school districts to be able to submit all reports required by state directly to one state agency; provides that the state budget director shall appoint an advisory committee; relates to the school budget; Makes provisions for circumstances when the applicable intermediate district determines that a specified pupil count submitted using the single record student database cannot be audited by the intermediate district.
http://www.michiganlegislature.org/documents/2003-2004/billenrolled/senate/pdf/2003-SNB-0365.pdf
Title: S.B. 365
Source: www.michiganlegislature.org
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| NM | Approved by voters 09/2003 | P-12 | Proposed amendment to the Constitution to provide for a limited additional distribution from the permanent funds to provide more money for the Public Schools to implement and maintain Educational Reforms and for other permanent fund recipients. http://www.sos.state.nm.us/Election/SpecSum.pdf and http://www.sos.state.nm.us/Election/CA2.pdf
Title: Constitutional Amendment 2 (SJR6-2003)
Source: New Mexico State Web site
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| CT | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | Concerns the general budget and revenue implementation; makes provisions regarding funding for children requiring special education; amends provisions regarding re-evaluation or withdrawal of consent in special education cases; makes grants to regional educational service centers. http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2003/act/Pa/2003PA-00006-R00HB-06806SS2-PA.htm
Title: H.B. 6806
Source: Connecticut Legislative Web site
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| 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
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to the termination of trust funds; terminates specified trust funds within the Education Department; provides for disposition of balances in and revenues of such trust funds; prescribes procedures for termination of such trust funds; declares findings of Legislature that specified trust funds within the said Department are exempt from termination requirements of certain provision of State Constitution. http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2003/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0818er.pdf
Title: S.B. 818
Source: StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2003 | Postsec. | Creates the University Concurrency Trust Fund within the Education Department; provides for sources of funds and purposes; exempts the trust fund from service charges; provides for annual carry forward of funds; provides for future legislative review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund; provides legislative intent regarding identifying the trust fund and its source of revenue; amends 1013.63. http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2003/Senate/bills/billtext/pdf/s0816er.pdf
Title: S.B. 816
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Repeals provision allowing only one parent-teacher association or booster club for each school. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB162&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 162
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Funding Formula:
Eliminates the requirement that the General Assembly recalculate the base funding amount every six years.
Eliminates school districts ability to calculate their student enrollment on a three year rolling basis.
Requires the Department to develop a new method for determining school district attendance rates.
Decreases the annual inflation factor in the funding formula from 2.8% to 2.2%.
Vouchers:
Increases the amount of the Pilot Scholarship Program (Cleveland Vouchers) from $2,500 to $3,000.
Allows for 9th and 10th graders to qualify for the Cleveland Vouchers and increases the amount of private tuition that parents can be required to pay in addition to the funds provided by the voucher.
Charters:
Requires the state to pay charter schools, instead of school districts, for each enrolled student. In addition states are to subtract funding for each student who leaves a district school to attend a charter school.
Title: H.B. 95
Source: Digest of Enactments 2003
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | Establishes in Allegany County a licensing procedure for specified for-profit businesses and qualified organizations to sell paper gaming devices and for persons to sell paper gaming devices to licensees; authorizes the board of county commissioners to impose specified paper gaming taxes on licensees; establishes a special gaming fund, a continuing, nonlapsing fund that may be used only to benefit fire and rescue departments and to pay for specified school costs. http://mlis.state.md.us/2003rs/bills/hb/hb1000t.rtf
Title: H.B. 1000
Source: mlis.state.md.us
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | The Public Elementary and Secondary Student Fee Authorization Act does not limit the ability of a governing body to request
donations of money, materials, equipment, or attire to defray costs if the request is made in such a way that it is clear that the request is not a requirement. The act does not prohibit a governing body from permitting students to supply materials for course projects. A governing body may require students to furnish minor personal or minor consumable items for participation in extracurricular activities. Also, In in regard to extracurricular activities, the option student shall be treated similarly to other students who transfer into the school from another public, private, denominational, or parochial school. http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/Legal/SLIP_LB249.pdf
Title: L.B. 249
Source: http://www.unicam.state.ne.us
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Increases the amount of money the Endowment Fund Investment Board shall make available from the Public School Permanent Endowment Fund for purposes of purchasing notes; provides that the amount of debt guaranteed by the credit enhancement program shall not be greater than 3 times the amount made available by the Public School Permanent Endowment Fund. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/H0322.html#daily
Title: H.B. 322
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| ID | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Amends existing law to authorize the State Board of Education to set up and regulate deferred compensation programs for certain eligible employees; and to provide rulemaking authority. http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1084.html#billtext
Title: S.B. 1084
Source: Idaho Legislative Web site
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| SC | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Revises the manner in which matriculation and incidental fees may be charged by school districts including provisions to exempts students eligible for free lunches from these fees. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess115_2003-2004/prever/3274_20030325.htm
Title: H.B. 3274
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Allows the Mississippi Transportation Commission to enter into an agreement with the state forestry commission for the general supervision and management of timber on selected portions of the rights-of-way of the interstate highway system and those completed segments of four-lane highways in the state. Seventy-five percent (75%) of any money collected from the sale of timber on rights-of-way, less any expenses associated therewith, must be deposited into the Education Enhancement Fund. http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2003/html/SB/2100-2199/SB2102SG.htm
Title: S.B. 2102
Source: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | Creates exemption for purchases of back-to-school clothing and school supplies by consumers during three-day period in August 2003. http://129.71.164.29/Bill_Text_HTML/2003_SESSIONS/Regular_Session/Senate/S_BILLS/SB100-199/RS_2003_SB100Frm.htm
Title: S.B. 107
Source: West Virginia Legislature
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2003 | P-12 | Provides a sales tax exemption for school fundraising activities.
Title: H.B. 161
Source: StateNet
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| MT | Rejected by voters 11/2002 | P-12 | To allow the investment of public funds, including school trust funds, in private corporate capital stock in accordance with recognized standards of financial management. (http://sos.state.mt.us/css/ELB/Ballot_Measures.asp)
Title: Constitutional Amendment 39
Source: Montana Secretary of State
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| NJ | To ASSEMBLY Committee on STATE GOVERNMENT. 11/2002 | P-12
Postsec. | Directs the State Treasurer to establish an automated bid access and purchasing information to be known as the Vendor Information Program to allow bidders to acces information related to bidding on contracts awarded by the State and its political subdivisions including, school districts and authorities.
Title: A.B. 3009
Source: StateNet
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| UT | Approved by voters 11/2002 | P-12 | Constitutional amendment to: (1) eliminate a requirement that a portion of the interest earnings of the State School Funs be retained in the Fund as a protection against the effects of inflation; and (2) provide that the dividends from the investment of the State School Fund may be spent to support the public education system.
http://elections.utah.gov/GOV_election_pamphletWEB.pdf
Title: Constitutional Amendment 1
Source: Utah Elections Office
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2002 | P-12 | Requires the Comptroller to review and monitor audits of local education agencies by independent auditors. Requires local education agencies to use certified public accountants for their audits from a directory approved by the Comptroller and to be in good standing with the Board of Accountancy. Prohibits, except as specified, a public accounting firm from performing an audit of the same local education agency under certain circumstances.
Title: A.B. 2834
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Adopted 09/2002 | P-12 | Clarifies rules regarding the withholding of funds from local units of administration.
Title: GAC 160-5-2-.02
Source: WestLaw
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| NE | Signed by governor 08/2002 | P-12 | As part of the state's budget cuts, eliminates the School Finance Review Committee and the Education Roundtable (saves approximately $20,000)
Title: L.B. 41B
Source: http://www.unicam.state.ne.us
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| ID | Signed into law 07/2002 | P-12 | Creates mechanism and funding for alternative summer school programs.
Title: H.B. 687
Source: Idaho State Board of Education Web site
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| CT | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12
Postsec. | Requires the issuance of United We Stand commemorative number plates, most funds from which are to go to the commemorative account. Establishes "United We Stand commemorative account, 50% of which is to pay tuition and fees waivers at the University of Connecticut, Connecticut State University or the regional regional community-technical colleges to the dependent child or surving spouse of any state resident who was a terrorist victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks or died in the anthrax attacks September-December 31, 2001. Establishes September 11 of each year as Remembrance Day. Suitable exercises are to be held in the state capitol and elsewhere as the governor designates for the observance of the day.
Title: S.B. 102
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OR | Rejected by Voters. 06/2002 | P-12 | (Ballot Measure No. 13) Proposes a Constitutional Amendment to change the name of the Education Endowment Fund to the Education Stability Fund; specifies conditions under which moneys may be appropriated from principal of fund.
Title: V. 3
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Allows nonresident pupil's participation in extracurricular activities pursuant to a court-ordered decree or order of custody. Modifies tuition reimbursement payment by school districts under the postsecondary enrollment options act. Includes nonpublic schools in section allowing local boards to make an agreement with another school to to provide for the eligibility of its students in interscholastic activities at the partner school. Changes deadline for school infrastructure program calculations from July 1 to September 1. Modifies statute regarding phase I payment calculations. http://www.legis.state.ia.us/GA/79GA/Legislation/SF/02200/SF02259/Current.html
Title: S.B. 2259
Source: www.legis.state.ia.us
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| AL | Act No. 03/2002 | P-12 | Authorizes Public School and College Authority to sell and issue aggregate principal amount of Bonds, in addition to all other bonds previously issued by the Authority; provides funds to pay the cost of workforce development, education and training and the acquisition and construction of training facilities and equipment for the benefit of companies that engage in the business of manufacturing or assembling certain vehicles.http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/sb517.htm
Title: S.B. 517
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us
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| AL | Signed into law 09/2001 | P-12 | Relates to Alabama Public School and College Authority bonds; provides that local boards of education may use bond proceeds for the purchase and repair of equipment and building and other capital outlay projects and for the retirement of indebtedness, and to change the redemption option to ten years.
Title: H.B. 6C
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2001 | P-12 | Public Act No. 92-06., Amends the Election Code and the School Code; provides that notice of a referendum concerning the issuance of certain school bonds may be given by publication in at least one newspaper published in and having general circulation in the district; provides that notice provisions concerning bond issues apply only to consolidated primary elections at which not less than 60% of the voters voting on the bond proposition voted in favor of the bond proposition; makes other provisions.
Title: S.B. 975
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Increases state funding to schools for the 2001-02 school year; requires school districts to adopt a plan for use of such monies; specifies that when schools receive new textbooks, allocated funds should be used first for new textbooks in certain subjects; charter schools are to follow similar funding provisions.
Title: H.B. 1272
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Public Law No. 127., (LD 1647)Permits school boards to carry forward general operating fund balances at the end of a school administrative unit's fiscal year to meet the needs of the school administrative unit for up to 3 years to reduce the State and local allocations for the purpose of computing State subsidy.
Title: S.B. 524
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district to use a portion of its impact aid funds for repayment of bonds.
Title: S.B. 457
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Senate analysis states that current state policy regarding public education provides that the public
school finance system of Texas is required to adhere to a standard of neutrality that provides for substantially equal access to similar revenue per student at a similar tax effort. C.S.H.B. 2879 increases the maximum amount of wealth per student a school district may have for the 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 school years, amends provisions regarding the funding of school districts that experience a decline in average daily attendance, and increases the maximum existing debt tax rate to $0.29 cents per $100 of
valuation. Section 4 of the bill directs that the commissioner develop a rule to calculate educationally disadvantaged students in districts with no campuses participating in the federal free or reduced lunch program; as the provision increases the number of students who many be counted as being entitled to the compensatory education allotment, a cost to the Foundation School Program is created. The Texas Education Agency estimates that 1,796 students were identified as low-income by the 81 school districts and charter schools which do not participate in the free or reduced price lunch program. The estimated compensatory education allotment per student in the 81 districts in question is about $700, with
an additional increase to weighted pupils created by the allotment generating $400 per student in tier II. It is estimated that based on the data above that the provision would cost approximately $4 million for the biennium.
Title: H.B. 2879
Source: http://www.house.state.tx.us/
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Public Law No. 38., 39 (LD 346) Clarifies that communities that are part of a school administrative district or other single or multicommunity school district may deposit the proceeds of school impact fees in a trust fund to be used to pay their proportionate share of anticipate school capital costs.
Title: H.B. 268
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2001 | P-12 | Relates to elementary and secondary education provisions addressed in the creation of North Dakota Century Code; relates to administration, boards, teacher licenses; school guidance and counseling services; special education; vocational and technology education; school finance; transportation.
Title: H.B. 1045
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Vetoed 04/2001 | P-12
Postsec. | Relates to public money; provides for stratified or statistical pre- and post-audits; requires quarterly reports from local public bodies, school districts and certain institutions or higher education.
Title: H.B. 87
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | This bill makes several technical changes to school financing in the areas of: bonding, high cost transportation and isolated school funding.
Title: S.B. 603
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Provides for the issuance of special Committed to Education motor vehicle license plates.
Title: S.B. 213
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12
Postsec. | Provides for an exchange of certain endowment lands, managed by the Board of Land Commissioners, which are adjacent to the Idaho State University/University of Idaho Center for Higher Education, with lands of equivalent market value owned by the Board of Education.
Title: H.B. 348
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes advance payment of a portion of a charter school's estimated annual apportionment under specified conditions.
Title: H.B. 278
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WY | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Of the revenue deposited into the common school account within the permanent land
fund from revenues available under the negotiated easement agreement with the Express Pipeline
Partnership in 1996, five million dollars ($5,000,000.00) shall be accounted for separately
and the interest earned thereon shall not be part of the distribution from the common school
account under W.S. 21-13-301, and shall be deposited into the Wyoming trust fund within the
trust and agency fund.
Title: S.B. 11
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2001
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| OK | Rejected by voters 11/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | STATE QUESTION 684 (SJR 2-2000) Amends the State Constitution; removes restrictions on the Permanent School Fund relative to common schools and universities and colleges; removes the requirement that certain monies be held as trust funds; allows the Commissioners of the Land Office to add income from the school land funds to such funds and to decide what amount to send to the schools and universities each year; specifies the amount to be sent to the common schools.
Title: V. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Unofficially approved on the ballot 11/2000 | P-12 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT E (SJR-1-2000); permits the investment of the Permanent School Funds in certain stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other financial instruments and the use of a certain portion of the interest and income to increase the principal in the Fund.
Title: V. 5
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Chapter No.536, Extends the operation of the State Energy Conservation Assistance Account to January 1, 2011. Requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to enter into agreement with the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and the State Department of Education to expend specified funds for purposes relating to energy conservation.
Title: S.B. 1299
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Revises the method of apportioning funds for the gifted and talented program so that each participating school district receives a per-pupil amount based on average daily attendance, determined as specified. Removes certain restrictions on the use of funds for gifted and talented pupil programs.
Title: A.B. 2313
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2000 | P-12 | Establishes, until 01/01/2002, the California Commission on Restructuring School Finance for Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and requires the Commission to, among other things, develop a proposed method for the reduction or elimination of mandated categorical programs.
Title: A.B. 2831
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2000 | P-12 | Limits the authorization of the California School Finance Authority to make or purchase secured or unsecured loans or to purchase the rights and possibilities to those loans and rights and possibilities regarding the state's share of funding, for of school facilities provided under the Green Act.
Title: A.B. 2586
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | On 11/07/2000 ballot 07/2000 | P-12
Postsec. | STATE QUESTION 684 (SJR 2-2000) Amends the State Constitution; removes restrictions on the Permanent School Fund relative to common schools and universities and colleges; removes the requirement that certain monies be held as trust funds; allows the Commissioners of the Land Office to add income from the school land funds to such funds and to decide what amount to send to the schools and universities each year; specifies the amount to be sent to the common schools.
Title: V. 1, SB 1348
Source: 2000 Legislative Summary, Oklahoma
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| RI | Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 | P-12 | Relates to municipal public building authorities; provides that in calculating the limitations of revenue bonds, there shall not be included in the calculation 50% of the outstanding principal amount of any bond issued for projects for which the authority or municipality recieves school housing aid.
Title: S.B. 3067
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Provides for the distribution of money received from the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement; establishes the Rural Development Fund, the Early Childhood Development Fund, and the Kentucky Health Care Improvement Fund; creates the Lung Cancer Research Fund administered through the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville; provides that all interest income accrue to the funds; provides that the funds are non-lapsing.
Title: H.B. 583
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Requires the Auditor of Public Accounts to be responsible for an annual audit of the funds in each school district cooperative, school district consortium, school district corporation, and any other entity formed by school districts; provides the auditor may allow a certified public accountant to perform the audit but shall retain the right to receive the audit report and management letters.
Title: H.B. 689
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Relates to revenue and taxation; changes provisions relating to the Nebraska Budget Act, tax levies, joint public agencies, taxation of public property, and school finance; changes the operative date of changes made by Laws 1999; provides operative dates; repeals the original sections; declares an emergency.
Title: L.B. 968
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Vetoed 04/2000 | P-12 | Changes provisions relating to budgets, beginner grade entrance document requirements, the enrollment option program, reorganization plan hearings, report filing dates, warrants, expenditure limitations, state aid, temporary mitigation funds, the Hardship Fund, certain site and building funds, special education, and private postsecondary career schools; changes and eliminates provisions relating to duties of the school Finance Review Committee.
Title: L.B. 1401
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VT | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | This act amends the public bids section of law to make clear that school boards may resort to the state purchasing system without having to undergo any further public bidding and it clearly authorizes, in the context of school nutrition programs, use of any federally-permitted bid or request for proposal process notwithstanding any Vermont public bid statute to the contrary.
Title: H.B. 620
Source: http://www.state.vt.us/educ/legupdate.htm
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| NE | Signed into law 07/1999 | P-12 | Creates the Hardship Fund, which allows districts in certain circumstances of financial distress to borrow money from the fund. Fund consists of money appropriated, repayments, and interest paid. Qualifying occurrences are: One or more new special education students or one or more new disabling conditions causing special education expenditures to increase by 10% or more, but not less than 3 times the cost grouping cost per student in the standard cost grouping; opening of a group home causing expenditures to increase by 10% or more; clerical errors by public officials, other than any person employed by or serving on the school board; and several other fiscal conditions concerning calculation of aid, budgeted reserves, current levy.
Title: L.B. 314
Source: Nebraska Legislature
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| IA | Signed into law 05/1999 | P-12 | Provides for the joint construction or acquisition, furnishing, operation, and maintenance of public buildings by counties, cities, fire districts, and school districts and providing for joint issuance of school district or fire district bonds.
Title: S.B. 393
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 05/1999 | P-12 | Removes required report projecting secondary special education exit numbers; changes computation for reimbursement for gifted children and transportation so valuation for school district is computed in same manner as for apportionment of general state financial aid; provides charter schools maintain accurate attendance records if chartered by State Board Sufficient to file claims under provisions concerning the basis for apportionment of general State aid.
Title: S.B. 291
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/1999 | P-12 | Permits school district governing boards to establish damage deposits for use of school equipment and to charge fees for art supplies; requires school districts to return the full amount of the deposit if the items are returned on time and in reasonably good condition.
Title: S.B. 1027
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/1999 | P-12 | Relates to the education omnibus budget reconciliation; makes changes to both permanent and session law to implement budgeting measures relating to education.
Title: S.B. 1006A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 04/1999 | P-12 | Establishes an Iowa early intervention block grant program; provides goal of class reduction; provides direction and resources for success, especially in reading including enabling parents to improve their child's reading; includes phonemic awareness training; provides for accountability; requires technology plan; provides for a school improvement technology block grant program; makes appropriations.
Title: H.B. 743
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NH | Signed into law 04/1999 | P-12 | Establishes a voluntary school contribution program for the purpose of supporting local school districts; provides that municipalities may send a taxpayer information notice to all of its taxpayers showing the amount of the individual taxpayer's school tax assessment from the prior year; provides that taxpayers may choose to voluntarily remit this amount, in whole or in part, in support of the local school district.
Title: H.B. 734
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Revises the property tax levies for the general fund of a school district.
Title: H.B. 1151
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/1999 | P-12 | Creates a school land trust program for each public school; provides that the interest on the state school Fund shall be used to fund the program; provides that funds shall go to each public school to enhance academic performance and improve educational excellence.
Title: H.B. 350
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 02/1999 | P-12 | Provides additional funding for certain school districts that have either decreasing or increasing enrollments.
Title: H.B. 147
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 02/1999 | P-12 | Requires that the board of trustees of a school district maintain an account of receipts and expenditures of moneys received from vending machine sales on school property.
Title: S.B. 1075
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 02/1999 | P-12 | Adds to existing law to authorize the issuance of an Idaho Youth license plate; provides that a portion of the fee be used in providing prevention and early intervention programs for at-risk youth.
Title: H.B. 218
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ND | Died 02/1999 | P-12 | Provides a concurrent resolution directing the Legislative Council to study enhanced funding for school districts for quality education and methods of reducing reliance on property taxes for school district funding.
Title: H.C.R. 3064
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 11/1998 | P-12 | Allocates the estimated $90 million in unexpended class size reduction dollars to 1) districts with 40% of their students in a year-round schedule, have more than 200 students per acre, and have implemented three grades of class size reduction, and 2) "Catch-22" districts that had insufficient CSR dollars in 1997-98 to fund their facilities eligibility, that have implemented CSR in 1996-97 and expanded the program in 1997-98.
Title: A.B. 1746
Source: "EDCAL"
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| DE | Died 10/1998 | P-12 | Creates a tax credit for persons over age 65 or the widowed spouses of such persons, requires the school district, by way of the county, to inform the taxpayer annually concerning the amount of the difference which may be taken as a credit.
Title: H.B. 339
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Signed into law 10/1998 | P-12 | Amends local sales tax; delays the sunset requirement that counties use part of the 2 half-cent local sales tax proceeds only for public school capital outlay purposes.
Title: S.B. 1150
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VT | Signed into law 09/1998 | P-12 | Sets formula for statewide education property tax for fiscal year 2000.
Title: H.B. 771 Property Taxes
Source: Vermont Department of Education
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| VT | Signed into law 09/1998 | P-12 | Provides funds for existing capital construction obligations and various specific projects.
Title: H.B. 761
Source: Vermont Department of Education
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| VT | Signed into law 09/1998 | P-12 | Provides support for the Vermont Department of Education, appropriates funds for school districts. Requires the Commissioner of Education to report on state and regional partnerships, provides funds for citizenship education and capital construction.
Title: H.B. 755
Source: Vermont Department of Education
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| NC | Signed into law 08/1998 | P-12 | Extends tax-exempt financing under the Higher Education Facilities Finance Act to private elementary and secondary school facilities.
Title: S.B. 1556
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 08/1998 | P-12 | Provides that a person otherwise eligible for the School Tax Relief (STAR) property tax exemption will not be denied the exemption if such person becomes 65 after the appropriate taxable status date and before December 31st of the same year.
Title: S.B. 7058
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 07/1998 | P-12 | Establishes a centralized state school capital finance system with limited bonding for all school districts; institutes school building adequacy requirements; makes an appropriation.
Title: S.B. 1001
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Died 07/1998 | P-12 | Prohibits school districts from spending more than 5% of funds from all sources for costs of general administration, instructional resources supervision, and supervision of instruction, beginning fiscal year 1999-2000. Requires the State Board of Education to fine districts failing to comply.
Title: V 7
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CT | Died 07/1998 | P-12 | Concerns an increase in the state share of local public education expenditures; reduce the reliance on the property tax to finance public education.
Title: H.B. 5129, H.B. 5133, H.B. 5144 & H.B. 5152
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| DE | Signed into law 07/1998 | P-12 | Establishes an Education Finance Reform Committee to conduct a comprehensive examination of Delaware's system of school finance and school governance and to make recommendations for changes that increase the State contribution and provide property tax relief.
Title: H.J.R. 28 Education Finance Reform Committee
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| MI | Signed into law 07/1998 | P-12 | Excepts casinos from renaissance zone status in the Commercial Redevelopment Act; relates to the commercial facilities tax; relates to property taxes and school taxes.
Title: S.B. 590
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| MO | Signed into law 07/1998 | P-12 | Changes the school building revolving fund; redirects the proceeds of forfeitures distributed for education to the school building revolving fund; narrow the use of revolving fund moneys from loans and grants to lease purchase only; requires a lease purchase to be paid within 10 years; requires unobligated funds to be returned; prohibits interest charged in the district not to exceed 3%.
Title: H.B. 1265
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| RI | Signed into law 07/1998 | P-12 | Creates the Rhode Island Urban Education Act; appropriates funds to the cities based on the total number of students in each community.
Title: H.B. 7787
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Died 06/1998 | P-12 | Provides the "Education Revision Act of 1997", establishes the Alabama K-12 Education Funding Study Council; and establishes the Alabama K-12 Education Facilities Study Committee.
Title: S.B. 609 Education Revision Act of 1997
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 06/1998 | P-12 | Revises prohibition on school district construction fees.
Title: S.B. 1114 School District Construction Fees
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| CO | Died 06/1998 | P-12 | S.B. 91 Designates the state's "excess revenues" as the source for a loan program to school districts undertaking capital construction projects. H.B. 1190 allows school districts to request funding for emergency capital construction projects on facilities that have been certified as structurally unsafe. H.B. 1174 makes school districts with per pupil assessed valuation below the state-wide average eligible for moneys from the state's capital construction fund.
Title: S.B. 91 H.B. 1190 & H.B. 1174 Capital Construction
Source: CO Association of School Boards
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| IN | Died 06/1998 | P-12 | Requires the department of education to fully reimburse school corporations and accredited nonpublic schools for costs of furnishing free school textbooks, supplies, and other required class fees to students meeting financial eligibility standards; apppropriates from the state general fund a sufficient amount to fully fund the reimbursement program.
Title: S.B. 17
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| LA | Died 06/1998 | P-12 | Provides for Legislative approval of the minimum foundation program (MFP) formula adopted by the Board of Elementary Education on June 13, 1997.
Title: H.C.R. 245
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| NJ | Died 06/1998 | P-12 | Establishes grant and loan funds in the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority to provide funds for public school construction and renovation.
Title: S.B. 2289 Funding for Public School Construction
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SC | Signed into law 06/1998 | P-12 | Relates to exemptions from the state sales tax; clarifies the types of school materials which qualify for the exemption; deletes the requirement that festivals must be officially recognized as special events before concessions sold there are exempt.
Title: H.B. 4801
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| AL | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | Authorizes the county commission to levy an additional ad valorem tax in the amount of 10 mills on each dollar of taxable property to be used for capital improvements for public education; provides that the increase in the tax is subject to approval of a majority of the qualified electors voting on the proposal.
Title: H.B. 664
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| AL | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | Authorizes governmental units to enter into guaranteed energy costs savings contracts; provides for bid proposal procedures; establishes standards and procedures for awarding guaranteed energy cost savings contracts; reiterates present law requiring that education support personnel work under the direct supervision, employment, and control of local boards of education.
Title: H.B. 148
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| CO | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | Concerns an assistance program for school district capital construction.
Title: H.B. 1231
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| FL | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12
Community College | Authorizes community colleges to bond capital improvement fees financing or refinancing equipment, renovation, or remodeling of educational facilities; limits terms; provides additional allowable uses; authorizes community college Boards of Trustees to issue revenue bonds for purpose of equipment, renovation, or remodeling of educational facilities. BECAME LAW WITHOUT GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE .
Title: H.B. 3799
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| FL | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | BECAME LAW WITHOUT GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE . Authorizes boards to rent or lease certain buildings or space within buildings for conversion to use as educational facilities; provides for funding; requires school board adoption of resolution certifying that specified conditions have been met; amends provision regarding exemption from excise tax on documents; conforms provisions; amends provision regarding school district tax for capital outlay; conforms provisons.
Title: H.B. 3599
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| LA | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | Provides relative to the implementation of Act 721 of 1997 Regular Session which authorized slot machine gaming at certain live horse racing tracks; provides a definition of "taxable net slot machine proceeds", provides for the dedication of a fixed percentage of slot machine proceeds to supplement purses for races run at the live meetings at an eligible facility; to authorize local taxes. Relates to the support schools through taxable slot machine proceeds.
Title: S.B. 162
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | Authorizes the Maryland Health Educational Facilities Authority to make its financing programs available to, and issue bonds for, capital projects of nonprofit elementary and secondary schools in the State that have received a certificate of approval from the State Board of Education.
Title: H.B. 541
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| MS | Died 05/1998 | P-12 | Includes a percentage of certain local tax revenues generated by gaming in the definition of "other local revenue sources" used to compute grants under the minimum education program.
Title: H.B. 230
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | Authorizes the issuance of severence tax bonds for public school critical capital outlay projects pursuant to the public school capital outlay act. Makes an appropriation and declares an emergency.
Title: H.B. 29
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| TN | Signed into law 05/1998 | P-12 | Adds language to recognize full funding of Basic Education Programs in 1997-1998 fiscal year; deletes provisions of Tennessee Education Finance Act of 1977.
Title: H.B. 2988
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| WA | Died 05/1998 | P-12 | Relates to medical reimbursement payments to school districts.
Title: H.B. 2682 Medical Reimbursement
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | NOTE: NOT PASSED BY VOTERS AS OF 9/98 Relates to Education Appropriation: proposes and amendment to the Constitution so as to specify the educational purposes and programs for which lottery proceeds may be appropriated and expended; provides for submission of this amendment for ratification or rejection.
Title: S.R. 529 Education Appropriation
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Creates a Blue Ribbon Study Committee on Funding of the "Quality Basic Education Act".
Title: S.R. 467
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Relates to sales tax for educational purposes; provides for the enactment of a distribution formula by local Act.
Title: H.B. 1520 Sales Tax
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Authorizes the imposition of a local option sales and service tax and use of certain federal funds for school infrastructure projects and the issuance of bonds; provides for the State Department of Education to adopt rules to comply with the requirements of the federal rules or regulations; requires a county election to decide on the issue of the imposition of a local sales and service tax.
Title: H.B. 2282
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Establishes a trust and revolving account consisting of one percent of the excise tax and wholesale tax imposed on malt beverages; requires that the moneys be paid on a matching basis to the Malt Beverage Educational Fund to combat underage drinking; requires that moneys from the fund go solely to educational materials and programs and that expenditures of moneys from the fund are approved by a majority of the executive branch and legislative branch members on the Corporations Board.
Title: S.B. 207
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Provides for the implementation of recommendations from the Governor's Commission on School Facilities which establishes a debt service factor to help cover the cost of school construction or renovation; establishes the School Facilities Finance Program within the Maine Municipal Bond Bank to provide capital financing for construction and the leasing and purchase of needed equipment and school facilities.
Title: H.B. 1622
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Provides a homestead exemption of funds applied to the portion of the property tax assessment attributable to education costs; requires the State to fund 51% of the costs of essential education services as defined by the Legislature.
Title: H.B. 1457
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Relates to the Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act; changes provision relating to school district reorganization incentives; harmonizes provisions; repeals the original section.
Title: L.B. 1134
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 04/1998 | P-12 | Relates to educational service units; provides for funding of core services; states intent; harmonizes provisions; repeals the original sections; appropriates funds from the General Fund. Note: Governor's veto overridden by LEGISLATURE.
Title: L.B. 1110
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Relates to revenue and taxation; changes budget limitation provisions for political subdivisions and school districts as prescribed; provides an operative date; repeals the original sections; declares an emergency; relates to qualified sinking funds for capital improvements.
Title: L.B. 989 Revenues and Taxation
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Provides specific authority for school boards to apply for Literary Funds loans for the construction of a school building on leased property under certain circumstances; requires school board to submit evidence that both parties are fully apprises of the construction plans, a copy of such lease, certification of the approval of the local governing body and the local school board.
Title: H.B. 918
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 04/1998 | P-12 | Relates to funding plan for continuing public school construction.
Title: S.B. 533
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Relates to the State Council for Technology in Learning; increases the council's membership from 15 to 18 and specifies the method of nominations.
Title: S.B. 1420 Technology in Learning
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Relates to property tax replacement in school funding; strikes reference to sales tax receipts; provides that appropriations shall be made for property tax replacement; strikes distribution of sales tax receipts for the purpose of property tax relief.
Title: S.B. 1535 Property Tax/Sales Tax
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NH | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Implements the Advancing Better Classrooms Program to provide a constitutionally adequate public education to all the children of New Hampshire; establishes the criteria necessary for an adequate education.
Title: H.B. 1075
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Authorizes the issuance and sale of capital projects general obligation bonds to make capital expenditures for senior citizen facility improvements and acquisitions, for public educational capital improvements and acquisitions and for public library acquisitions; provides for a tax levy for payment of principal of, interest on and certain costs related to the bonds; requires approval of the registered voters at the 1998 general election of the State.
Title: H.B. 10
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| SD | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Reduces tax levies for general funds of a school district for the purpose of maintaining the relationship between state aid to general education and local effort; provides for a 5% reduction in property taxes for certain types of property; provides reductions in taxes on residential and agricultural land.
Title: S.B. 233
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| SD | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Permits the issuance of economic development revenue bonds to finance primary, secondary, and postsecondary schools operated by nonprofit entities.
Title: S.B. 183
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Revises the calculation of state aid to education.
Title: S.B. 173
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Provides that, in compliance with the provisions of the appropriation act relating to the maintenance supplement program and with such funds as are appropriated for such purpose, each school board must establish a program for ongoing school maintenance needs; this bill codifies the maintenance supplement program which has been operating for some years pursuant to the provisions of the appropriation act.
Title: H.B. 138
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Concerns funding of capital school projects; provides that issuance of bonds by Public School Authority (VPSA) may be based on debt service payments payable from appropriations from the General Assembly; provides that the VSPA is not a political subdivision and thereby allows the Board to act by telephone conference if necessary; concerns shortfall procedures in aid of local school districts; provides for subrogration of certain funds.
Title: S.B. 67
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VT | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Proposes to make technical corrections and clarify policy provision in the Equal Educational Opportunity Act pertaining to property taxes; amends the manner in which property tax exemptions, tax stabilization agreements and other incentives for economic development affecting property taxes are treated under Act 60.
Title: H.B. 577
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WY | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Relates to school capital construction; establishes a program for school district building and facility maintenance as specified; defines terms; provides for maintenance and repair payments; imposes accounting and reporting requirements; provides for advance maintenance and repair payments from the capital construction account as specified.
Title: S.B. 16
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WY | Signed into law 03/1998 | P-12 | Relates to school capital construction; modifies the mill levy supplement program for local district bonded indebtedness; imposes uniform statewide building standards for school building adequacy; prescribes a process for prioritization of statewide building needs; restricts expenditure of revenue dedicated to the capital construction account; modifies the capital construction grant and loan program.
Title: S.B. 38 School Capital Construction
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 02/1998 | P-12 | Makes an appropriation from the general fund to the public school capital improvements fund; declares an emergency.
Title: H.B. 60
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| OH | Signed into law 02/1998 | P-12 | Levies an additional 1% sales and use tax, the proceeds of which must be used for schools and to provide property tax relief; authorizes taxpayers to claim a refundable income tax credit for a portion of their residential property tax payments; makes an appropriation.
Title: H.B. 697
Source: Information for Public Affairs
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| SD | Signed into law 02/1998 | P-12 | Revises the circumstances under which a school district may charge a fee for school bus transportation.
Title: S.B. 29
Source: Information for Public Affairs, Inc.
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| FL | Signed into law 11/1997 | P-12
Community College | Allows capital improvement fees to be bonded and specifies conditions; permits new construction of educational facilities as use for fee revenues; authorizes community college district boards of trustee to borrow funds and incur debt for new construction of educational facilities. Note: Became Law without Governor's signature.
Title: S.B. 20
Source: Information for Public Affairs
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| CA | Signed into law 08/1997 | P-12 | Enacts the 1998 Class Size Reduction Bond Act and the 2000 Class Size Reduction Bond Act, each of which, upon approval of the voters, would provide $1 billion in general obligation bonds to provide aid to school districts in accordance with the Greene Act.
Title: A.B. 64 1998 Class Size Reduction Bond Act and the 2000 Class Size Reduction Bond Act
Source: California Association of School Administrators
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| TX | Passed 08/1997 | P-12 | On 08/09/97 Ballot., PROPOSITION NUMBER 1 (H.J.R. 4-1997) Amends the Constitution by increasing the school property tax residence homestead tax exemption from $ 5,000 to $15,000. Authorizes the Legislature to limit all or part of the exemption to political subdivisions that are the principal providers of elementary and secondary education within their boundaries. Authorizes the Legislature to allow the transfer of all or part of the age 65-and-over tax freeze to another homestead.
Title: TX V. 1 (New Bill)
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| CA | Signed into law 07/1997 | P-12 | Changes the current two-thirds vote requirement for the passage of local school facilities bond measures to 58 percent of the votes cast.
Title: A.B. 55 Bond Elections
Source: California Association of School Administrators
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| CA | Died 06/1997 | P-12 | Places on the ballot a measure to lower the vote required for passage of local school bonds to a simple majority.
Title: A.C.A. 7 Bond Elections
Source: Association of California School Administrators
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| CO | Vetoed 06/1997 | P-12 | Establishes a school construction and renovation fund to receive lottery moneys allocated to it by the state constitution; provides that moneys in the fund are to be used to make matching grants to school districts for capital construction projects.
Title: H.B. 1007 Establishes School Construction and Renovation Fund
Source: Colorado Legislative Council Staff
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| LA | Died 06/1997 | P-12 | Relates to funding the improvement of elementary and secondary school facilities; creates and provides for the Elementary and Secondary School Building Fund; provides that two percent of the net porceeds from the State Lottery, the Video Poker Device Fund, Net Riverboat Gaming Funds, and revenues from casino gaming operations be annually deposited into such fund.
Title: S.B. 1275 Funding for the Improvement of School Facilities
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 06/1997 | P-12 | Resolves to direct the State Board of Education to study the school funding formula.
Title: H.B. 1344 School Funding Formula
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NV | Signed into law 06/1997 | P-12 | Revises provisions governing the review of plans for school facilities; authorizes school districts to enter into lease agreements for school facilities with an option to purchase the facilities; requires the board of trustees of school districts in certain counties to establish oversight panels for school facilities; and other provisions.
Title: A.B. 353 Financing of School Facilities
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 06/1997 | P-12 | The legislature passed a state budget totaling $4.5 billion, an increase of 9.6 percent. Education budgets received the largest share of the new funding, 42.3 percent of the $395.3 million increase. Overall, education budgets will increase 7.3 percent to $2.5 billion.
Title: State Budget
Source: SREB Legislative Report
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| OR | Died 06/1997 | P-12 | Directs State Board of Education to establish statewide cost standards for capital construction of schools; establishes School Capital Construction Fund; directs Department of Education to distribute money from fund to school districts based on cost standards; appropriates money from General Fund to Department of Education for School Capital Construction Fund.
Title: H.B. 3555 Capital Construction
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SC | Signed into law 06/1997 | P-12 | The budget for 1997-98 will provide elementary and secondary schools with $1.4 billion in general funds, 5.1 percent more than was available in 1997. Finance formula funding will increase 5.5 percent to nearly $1.3 billion. Other funds to districts totaling $40.9 million (up 80.7 percent) include $300,000 for ADEPT (described below) and $30.3 million to continue the expansion of full-day kindergarten (up from $14.1 million). In addition, $1.5 million is available for kindergarten teachers from Education Improvement Act (EIA) funds, which are from an earmarked 1-cent of sales tax. EIA funds will total $429.4 million, increasing spending 6.5 percent. This includes #21.9 million for 4-year old early childhood programs (up 3.2 percent) and $105.4 million for basic skills academic assistance (5.8 percent more). Both of these programs were part of the Early Childhood and Academic Assistance Act of 1993. Of the funds available for Act 135 programs, $800,000 will be used for Reading Recovery programs to provide students in early grades with additional reading assistance when needed.
Title: 1997-98 Budget
Source: SREB Legislative Report
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| VT | Signed into law 06/1997 | P-12 | IMPROVES EQUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY: Makes equal educational opportunity a fundamental right for all children. Develops standards for student performance as well as assessment methods. Establishes public school quality standards as biennial evaluation of compliance. Reports annually on statewide and local school performance. EQUALIZES ALL TOWNS' ABILITIES TO PAY FOR THEIR SCHOOLS: Maintains local control of school budgets and per pupil spending. Gives all districts block grants of $5000/equalized pupil plus categorical aid (special ed., transportation, tech ed.). Allows towns to raise as much as they want above the block grant on an equalized basis (every town can raise the same amount per pupil with the same tax rate). Annually sets an equalized yield rate for districts spending above the block grant based on the districts' pupil count, equalized grand list and spending levels. BASES MOST VERMONTERS' SCHOOL TAXES ON THEIR INCOMES: Eligible = annual household income of $75,000 or less. Eligible residents get $15,000 homestead (house + 2 acres) exemption. For $5000/pupil block grant, eligible residents pay $1.10 on homestead or 2% of household income. For above-block grant spending, town levies a percentage of the block grant tax based on the equalized yield rate. Super circuit-breaker --$47,000 or less household income pays no more than 5% of that income for combined school and municipal taxes on the homestead. Includes other miscellaneous provisions.
Title: H.B. 527 An Act Relating to Equal Educational Opportunity
Source: Rep. Paul Cillo
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| WY | Vetoed 06/1997 | P-12 | Relates to public schools; prescribes school reform in response to the supreme court decision in Campbell County School District, et al., v. State of Wyoming, et al., authorizes limited local option ad valorem tax levies; provides for appropriations; authorizes positions, provides for effective dates.
Title: H.B. 1001
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| AK | Signed into law 05/1997 | P-12 | Increases the excise tax on cigarettes and tobacco products; specifies the use of the proceeds for state support of elementary and secondary education, an aggressive anti-tobacco campaign targeting children, and prosecution of illegal sellers or suppliers of tabacco prolducts to children.
Title: S.B. 13 Increase of Excise Tax on Cigarettes and Tobacco Products
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AL | Died 05/1997 | P-12 | Provies $125 million in technology and $310 million for removal of portable classrooms and other important construction needs.
Title: H.B. 623/S.B. 475 Funding for Technology and Portable Classroom Removal
Source: Alabama Education Association
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| FL | Died 05/1997 | P-12 | Provides matching grants to certain school districts; specifies eligible facilities. Provides for allocation and use of matching grants from Florida Lottery School Construction Fund; authorizes school districts to pledge discretionary lottery funds designated for school facilities and any matching grants for payment of bonds.
Title: S.B. 2084
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Died 05/1997 | P-12 | Creates School Infrastructure Trust Fund with Department of Education; provides for sources of moneys & purposes, annual carryover of funds; provides for future review & termination or re-creation of trust fund.
Title: S.B. 1864 School Infrastructure Trust Fund
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 05/1997 | P-12 | Relates to tax credits for computer donations. Removes a requirement that educational service centers pay to the Revenue Department an amount for state tax credits issued by the service center to taxpayers for donations of qualified computer equipment. Removes from the calculation of the selling price of the equipment an amount attributable to the tax credit for the donation of the equipment.
Title: S.B. 375
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| KS | Signed into law 05/1997 | P-12 | Concerns school districts; authorizes the adoption of local option budgets; provides a procedure for authorization to increase such budgets; revises the definition of local effort.
Title: S.B. 36
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| CA | Died 04/1997 | P-12 | Proposes to allocate 90 percent of $4 billion in bond proceeds on a per ADA basis while requiring a 50/50 local match.
Title: A.B. 110 School Bond Measure
Source: California Association of School Administrators
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| CO | Died 04/1997 | P-12 | Establishes the Small Attendance Center Grant Fund in the State Treasury. For the 1997-98 budget year, and each budget year thereafter, school districts would be eligible to seek grants from the program if they meet certain criteria, including: district enrollment of 200 or more; more than one school attendance center in the district; and operation of one or more school attendance centers with a pupil enrollment of less than 200 which is located 20 or more miles from any other school attendance center.
Title: H.B. 1015 Small Attendance Center Grant Fund
Source: Colorado Legislative Council Staff
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| CO | Died 04/1997 | P-12 | This House Concurrent Resolution would submit a measure to Colorado voters at the November 1998 general election to amend the State Constitution relating to the distribution of lottery proceeds. The concurrent resolution would require that annually $32 million from the net proceeds of state lottery revenues be distributed to the School Construction and Renovation Fund, which would be created in the State Treasury (SEE H.B. 1007). Moneys in the School Construction and Renovation Fund would be used to make matching grants to school districts for the purposes of constructing new public schools and performing renovations of and controlled maintenance at public schools.
Title: H.C.R. 1001 Funding of State Lottery Revenues
Source: Colorado Legislative Council Staff
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| MS | Passed 04/1997 | P-12 | Suspends deadlines for further consideration of S 2649, providing Mississippi Adequate Educataion program.
Title: H.C.R. 159 Financing Adequate Educataion Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Died 04/1997 | P-12 | Authorizes the issuance of K-12 education license plates; authorizes the collection of donations for educational technology acquisition in addition to regular license plate fees; authorizes the distribution of donations to public elementary and secondary school districts; provides for the annual allocation of money to school districts for technology purchases; provides appropriatinos; provides an applicability date.
Title: H.B. 145 Allocation of Money for Technology Purchases
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 03/1997 | P-12 | Amend the self-repeal date of the Legislature's "ABC" school finance act of 1997 to extend the date to a date six months after the court ruling; forbids the state Board of School Capital Facilities entering after the ruling into any obligation not related to a preliminary approval given before the final court ruling.
Title: H.B. 2009 & S.B. 1009 "ABC" School Finance Act of 1997
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Died 03/1997 | P-12
Community College | Provedes for revenues derived from an additional license fee for general contractors be used for creation of Construction Education Fund; provides for fund distribution; applies to institutes for higher learning and community colleges; specifies fund usage for institutions offering certain courses of construction education.
Title: S.B. 2058 Creation of Construction Education Fund
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Died 02/1997 | P-12 | Relates to state lottery revenues; changes the disposition of net lottery revenues to earmark sixty percent for public school, middle school and junior high school extracurricular activities; creates a fund; makes an appropriation; amends an enacting session of NMSA 1978.
Title: S.B. 483 State Lottery Revenues
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| RI | Signed into law 02/1997 | P-12 | Authorizes the city of Newport to finance the construction, equipping and furnishing of a new middle school in the city.
Title: S.B. 85 Financing School Facilities
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WY | Died 02/1997 | P-12 | Relates to school finance; modifies distributions of local school district revenues by allocating revenues directly to the foundation account, to be distributed to local districts through foundation program payments as specified; accordingly modifies related provisions; authorizes payment of property tax refunds from the foundation account on behalf of districts as specified; modifies foundation account interfund borrowing authority.
Title: H.B. 262 School Finance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Died 01/1997 | P-12 | Relates to education; enacts the Classroom Piggy Bank Act; provides money for teachers for instructional and educational activities; and makes an appropriation.
Title: S.B. 316 Finance for Teachers for Instructional and Educational Activities
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 07/1996 | P-12 | Provides that the State Board for Capital Facilities may issue bonds payable from the Permanent Common School Fund; provides that final maturity date must be no later than fiscal year 2015-16; provides that such bonds are tax-free legal investments, but not an obligation of the State; creates a State Debt Oversight Commission to ascertain bonded debt of all taxing jurisdictions; makes specified appropriations for fiscal years 1996-1997 and 1997-1998 to remedy health, fire or safety problems.
Title: H.B. 2001 c Funding Capital Facility Projects SAME AS S.B. 1001c
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Died 07/1996 | P-12 | Provides for reformation of the school capital financing mechanism by the end of 1997 by means of constitutional amendment in accordance with 4 principles; requests substantial equalization satisfying the State Constitution; requests same assessment ratio on all property for voter-approved school construction; provides that nonresidential property is availed to all districts for taxation based on per-pupil valuesl; calls for elimination of debt for school construction within 15 years.
Title: S.B. 1013 School Capital Financing
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 07/1996 | P-12 | Establishes the Class Size Reduction Facilities Funding Program for the purpose of assisting school districts with the facilities-related costs associated with reducing class size in kindergarten and grades 1 to 3, inclusive, pursuant to a specified Class Size Reduction Program.
Title: S.B. 1789 Class Size Reduction Facilities Funding Program
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Died 07/1996 | P-12 | Establishes a State Lottery to provide funds for educational purposes, subject to statewide referendum; creates State Lottery Commisssiom; provides for membership and duties; restricts games to be offered, specifies ticket criterica; requires independent audit; specifies prize percentage, expenses percentage and provides for allocation to local school administrative units and institutions of higher learning. Creates Education Improvement Scholarship Task Force.
Title: H.B. 60 & S.B. 28 State Lottery to Provide Funds for Educational Purposes
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SC | Signed into law 07/1996 | P-12 | Enacts the "Public School Facilities Assistance Act", makes funds available to construct and renovate public school facilities, authorizes the issuance of school revenue bonds.
Title: H.B. 4547/S.B. 1117 Public School Facilities Assistance Act
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Died 06/1996 | P-12 | Makes permanent the requirement that counties use part of the two half-cent local sales tax proceeds only for public school buildings.
Title: S.B. 1136 Usage of Local Sales Tax for Public School Buildings
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NC | Died 06/1996 | P-12 | Establishes the School Facilities Trust Fund to provide funds for grants to counties for public school capital outlay projects to promote equity in local school facilities and reduces the pressure on the local property tax.
Title: H.B. 1104 & S.B. 1133 School Facilities
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Died 05/1996 | P-12 | Provides for a 1% inflation increase in statewide base per pupil funding for the 1996-97 budget. Creates a program for incentive funding to school districts that increase the amount of teacher pupil instruction time offered during a year or that enhance professional development to improve teaching. Permits increases to be in the form of longer school years for all pupils or the creation of special programs for pupils needing additional academic assistance. Provides that the amount of incentive funding shall correspond to the amount by which teacher pupil instruction time is increased, subject to a cap of 1.5% of the district's total program.
Title: H.B. 1195 School Finance Per Pupil Funding
Source: CASB Legislative Status Report; CASB Bill Board 5/10/96
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| GA | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 | Relates to definitions applicable to the "Georgia Lottery for Education Act"; changes the definition of the term "educational purposes and programs"; authorizes appropriations from the Lottery for Education Account for the purpose of providing teachers and personnel at public postsecondary technical institutes under the authority of the Department of Technical and Adult Education the necessary training in the use and application of computers.
Title: S.B. 46 Finance Lotteries
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 | Amends to the State Constitution Authorizes the boards of education of county school district and independent school districts to impose, levy, and collect a one percent sales and use tax for educational purposes.
Title: H.R. 728 Finances
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 04/11/96) Raises budget reserve amount to $270 million; reduces the property tax recognition shift for school districts; adopts 1997 property tax recognition shift adjustment; appropriates $180,000,000 to the Commissioner of Children, Families, and Learning for fiscal year 1997 to reduce the property tax levy recognition percentage to replace the appropriation made as a result of the November 1995 forecast; provides language governing deficit or surplus contingencies.
Title: S.B. 2886 Education Budget
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Passed 04/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 05/03/96) Requires school districts to spend no less than 80% on annual Title 1 budgets at participating school sites, in order to improve school environments to enable children to succeed. Provides children greater opportunities for success, by directing more money to programs that directly touch children's education.
Title: Requiring School Districts to Spend No Less Than 80% on Annual Title 1 Budgets
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12
Community College | Establishes tax levy limits. Beginning FY1998-99 and ending after FY2000-01, $1.10 per $100 of taxable valuation. Beginning FY2001-02, maximum levy for school districts decreases to $1.00 per $100 of taxable valuation. Includes some exceptions. Different limits set for community colleges and educational service units.
Title: LB 1114 Property Tax Levy Limitations
Source: Senator Bohlke
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| NE | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 | Caps the amount of income tax rebate given back to schools districts; makes revisions to accomodate option students (open enrollment); includes in the equalization formula insurance tax funds that districts receive; clarifies that the goal of the state providing 45 percent of all funding for public education applies not to individual districts but to the state as a whole; prescribes incentive payments for three years for school district reorganizations that move students into lower-cost tiers (attached by amendment)
Title: LB 1050 School Finance Revisions School Finance revisions
Source: Senator Bohlke
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| NE | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 | Relates to educational lands; amends sections 72-240.26, 72-258, and 72-259, reissues revised statutes of Nebraska; requires the board of Educational Lands and Funds to develop a plan for the sale of certain educational lands; harmonizes provisions; provides severability; and repeals the original sections.
Title: LB 1205 Educational Lands and Funds
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 04/1996 | P-12 | Beginning FY 97-98, a school district's general fund budget may not exceed the preceding school fiscal year budget unless 75% of the school board votes in the affirmative. Generally, the district may not increase its general fund budget more than the allowable growth percentage.
Title: LB 299 Local Government Spending Limitations Amends Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act
Source: Senator Bohlke
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| AZ | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | Creates a state School Capital Equity Fund and a state Board for School Capital Facilities to provide an avenue for construction funding for school districts meeting at least 1 of these criteria: 1. Bonding capacity per pupil of less than $4500 (elementary) or $1200 (high school) plus getting more than half its money via equalization; 2. Tax rate for bonds higher than the average; 3. Insufficient bonding capacity for the project; 4. Total combined tax rate at least 50% higher than the state average rate.
Title: H.B. 2009 Creation of School Capital Equity Fund for School Capital Facilities
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12
Community College | (Effective: 03/21/96) Provides "omnibus budget reconciliation" relating to education. Includes reduction in state aid for community college operations and construction after 2 years of declining enrollment, $174 per student state aid for charter school transportation, standard test for pupils in grades 3-12.
Title: H.B. 2004a SAME AS: S 1004a Education Budget
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| IN | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 03/21/96) Changes a school corporation's budget year from a calendar year to a school year, effective in 1999. Requires a school corporation to establish its budget before February 1 for the ensuing school year beginning July 1. Provides for a school corporation's budget to be approved by the state board of tax commissioners not later than April 1. Uses the prior calendar year assessed valuation to estimate revenues.
Title: H.B. 1132 Budget Year
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Passed 03/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 02/12/96) Relates to the school council allocation formula: KETS district administrative system chart of accounts; mandates that the Board of Education adopt a formula by administrative regulation which guides the way in which in which school district funds shall be allocated to each school council; utilizes the Kentucky Education Technology System(KETS) designed for use by local local school districts.
Title: 702 KAR 3:246 School Council Allocation Formula: KETS District Administrative System Chart of Accounts
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | Allows an increase of a property tax rate authorized for capital improvements to public schools.
Title: H.B. 45 Increase Property Tax Rate
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 03/04/96) Relates to Public Schools; Provides for a modified centennial schools program; Provides for elected school directors; Provides for exemptions from state and local board rules and policies to meet performance goals; Provides for the flow through of state and local monies directly to participant schools.
Title: H.B. 56 Money to Schools
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | Provides for State and local funding of the Minimum School Program Act. Establishes a ceiling for the State contribution to the maintenance and operation portion of the Act of $1,341,699,431. Establishes the value of the weighted pupil unit at $1,739. Establishes distribution formulas. Provides for one-time appropriations. Makes a $26,358,000 appropriation for school building aid. Contains many property tax provisions.
Title: H.B. 405 Minimum School Program Act
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 03/19/96) Relates to public education; establishing capital outlay foundation and capital outlay loan programs for school districts to provide revenues for capital outlay bonding, construction, renovation, and debt service; providing for qualifications to participate in the programs; providing for termination of the emergency school building needs program; providing a basis for distribution of capital outlay monies.
Title: S.B. 46 Captal Outlay Programs
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WY | Signed into law 03/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 03/15/96) Authorizes the board to lease lands to school districts for physical facilities at specified fee.
Title: H.B. 107 State Land Leases
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Signed into law 02/1996 | P-12 | Adds to existing law to provide the "Constitutionally Based Educational Claims A" to provide a procedure where the citizens of Idaho may sue over the adequacy of public education.
Title: H.B. 707 Citizens May Sue Over Adequacy of Public Education
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Died 02/1996 | P-12 | Adds to existing law to establish a reading recovery program and to provide the method for determining the allocation of funds.
Title: S.B. 1399
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 02/1996 | P-12 | (Effective: 02/14/96) Allows school boards to start the budgeting process at an earlier date.
Title: H.B. 1118 Budgeting Process
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| HI | Repealed 01/1996 | P-12 | H.B. 3074 establishes in the Department of Education a corporation to allow not-for-profit businesses in schools. Supports enterprising efforts such as creation of products, establishment of prices, hiring staff and paying expenses. Profits retained by the corporation, whereas in H.B. 3075 such profits would be retained by the schools to purchase equipment or other needed material.
Title: H.B. 3074 & H.B. 3075 Establishment of Not-For-Profit School Enterprises
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MN | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Allows school districts to levy up to $3.00 (now $1.00) per person in the district for crime related costs and adds programs for a gang resistance education training curriculum, to be developed by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension as a pilot program to train peace officers to teach this curriculum. Makes appropriations in blank for grants to law enforcement agencies and school districts for such training. Sets evaluation standards.
Title: H.B. 2495 Levies for Crime Related Costs
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Died 01/1996 | P-12 | Proposes a constitutional amendment to provide that the management of educational lands be under the direction of the legislature and to eliminate references to the Board of Educational Lands and Funds.
Title: LR 303 Management of Educational Lands
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 01/1996 | P-12 | Provides that from such funds as may be appropriated, sufficient funds shall be provided to hold all school division harmless by providing certain drop out prevention conditions; requires that the Board of Education develop and implement by July 1, 1996, a funding mechanism to ensure that no school board is penalized in its state funding for reducing the drop out rate in its local school division.
Title: H.B. 1525 Funding Mechanism and Drop Out Rate
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ID | Died 12/1995 | P-12 | Amends and adds to existing law to create a School District Growth Fund as a mechanism for a school district to utilize a levy to build additional buildings.
Title: H.B. 397 School District Growth Fund
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 11/1995 | P-12 | Establishes and provides funding for a school aid budget stabilization reserve account.
Title: S.B. 320--Public Act 195 Establishes and provides funding for a school aid budget stabilization reserve account s
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 10/1995 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district to enter into a joint venture relationship for the purposes of school facilities construction; authorizes a school district to apply to the State Allocation Board for funding for the school facilities portion of the cost of constricting a joint venture project; requires the board to establish the cost of construction for the school facilities portion of the joint venture project. ftp://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/95-96/bill/asm/ab_0451-0500/ab_481_bill_951016_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 481 Funding for School Facilities Construction
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MS | Passed 09/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 10/20/95) Concerns reallocation procedure for Federal Compensatory Education Funds.
Title: Reallocation Procedure for Federal Compensatory Education Funds
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NV | Signed into law 08/1995 | P-12 | Appropriates $786 million over the biennium from the State General Fund to the state distributive school account. This appropriation increases the statewide average basic support per pupil by approximately 11%, from the current $3,323 to $3,497 per pupil the following year.
Title: A.B. 737 Chapter 639 Appropriations 1995
Source: Legislative Counsel Bureau
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| AL | Signed into law 07/1995 | P-12 | Implements a foundation funding program for the annual funding of the public schools of Alabama, including allowances for salary, fringe benefits, classroom instructional support, and other current expense; provides for state funding for school transportation programs; provides for a capital outlay funding program based on local school system wealth; and provides for a phased out hold harmless for those systems losing funding under the new foundation program.
Title: H.B. 468/S.B. 379 Public School Funding
Source: Legislative Fiscal Office
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| AR | Passed 07/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 07/21/95) Establishes funding levels for the various At Risk Programs, to establish funding formulas for the At Risk Programs and to prescribe program requirements for these programs.
Title: Funding Levels for At Risk Programs
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| ME | Signed into law 07/1995 | P-12 | Permits schools to receive Medicaid funds to provide health and human services to students without reduction in general purpose aid by the State provided that the school expends at least 70% of the savings for students; provides for a General Fund appropriation to the Department of Education to provide technical assistance to schools seeking Medicaid reimbursement. re.
Title: H.B. 658 Allowing schools to use Medicaid funds for students without reduction in state aid
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NE | Passed 07/1995 | P-12 | The new spending lid limits school districts to a 3% to 5.5% increase in budgets, 1% lower than the current lid. The lower spending lid, a priority piece of legislation offered by Gov. Nelson, was promoted as an "efficiency measure" to reduce local spending and provide property tax relief. (Nebraska Rural Action 7/95)
Title: Spending Lid
Source: Center for Rural Affairs
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| AK | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $587.1 million
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 0.03 percent
Comments: Because of a fiscal crisis provoked by a sharp drop in petroleum prices, the Governor proposed no new education programs this year.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 9/7/94
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| AL | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $2.1 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 7.7 percent
Comments: In both its regular session and a special session, the legislature failed to pass either substantive education-reform measures or changes in the school-finance system, both ordered last year by a state judge who ruled that the state's school system is unconstitutional.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 10/19/94
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| CA | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $14.76 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 0.1 percent
Comments: For the third straight year, the budget provides $4,217 per student, forcing school districts to once again pay for any increases, even those needed to keep up with inflation. The budget includes $30 million for "impact aid" to assist poor and limited-English-proficient children. Lawmakers approved $9 million to purchase new instructional materials for children in grades K-8.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 10/19/94
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| CO | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $1.5 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 7.9 percent
Comments: Legislature enacted a new school finance formula. Minimum per-pupil funding will increase, and districts will be eligible for additional aid based on their size and the number of at-risk students they enroll. Senate killed a bill that would have given voters the opportunity to eliminate property taxes as a major funding source for education. Legislature passed bill giving private school students the right to participate in public school sports and extracurricular activities.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 9/7/94
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| CT | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $1.44 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 3.5 percent
Comments: The 1995 budget, a revision of the second year of a biennial budget, has not been signed by Governor, but he is expected to do so. Original budget was increased by $140 million, including funds for a $14 million effort to imporive acces to after-school and recreational activities and create mentoring programs. A proposal to move the state to a performance-based education system failed in the legislature, as did a plan to set aside public money to help children attend private schools.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 6/15/94
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| DE | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $496 million
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 7.5 percent
Comments: Budget includes $900,000 for an early-childhood program for at-risk 4-year-olds. Also included is $3.6 million to set up school-safety and violence intervention programs in 19 school districts. Block grants to local districts for supplies and textbooks will increase by 41.6 million, and teacher salaries will go up by 3 percent.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 10/19/94
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| FL | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $6.99 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 6.5 percent
Comments: Legislature passed Governor's $120 million package to protect schools and prevent student crime, including after-school programs for middle school students. Budget also includes a 3 percent increase in state aid. Legislature mandated Holocaust and African-American-history curricula for schools.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 5/11/94
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| HI | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $743 million
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 0.70 percent
Comments: Voters in November will consider a constitutional amendment to alter the state school board's powers and structure. A slight increase in school funding is due mostly to increased enrollment and construction costs.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 9/7/94
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| IA | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $1.27 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 3.3 percent
Comments: Legislature enacted a law creating a system to help districts share information on students who have been suspended or expelled or have assaulted school employees. Budget includes $1 million to pay for innovative programs through the New Iowa Schools Development Corporation. A new program will provide demonstration grants for youth-based school-service initiatives.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 8/3/94
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| ID | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $620.5 million
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 17.5 percent
Comments: Although fiscal 1995 K-12 appropriation approved by legislature is $15 million less than the Governor requested, the $92.5 million hike in school spending, made possible by Idaho's booming economy, was the largest percentage increase in the state's history. In an effort to make distribution of state funds more equitable and avert a pending school-finance lawsuit by about 40 of the state's 113 districts, legislature approved new aid-distribution formula that would generally benefit lower paying districts with fewer employees. Consequently, about half of the plaintiff districts dropped out of the lawsuit. Governor vetoed property-tax reduction bill that would have eliminated local property taxes as a source of school funding over a two-year period. Governor also vetoed measure that would have limited districts' ability to sue the state for school-finance inequities. Legislature appointed 15-member citizens' panel to oversee development of a statewide educational-technology plan and to distribute grants ot school districts developing local plans.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 8/3/94
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| IL | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $4.78 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 8.4 percent
Comments: The budget added nearly $8 million in funding for staff development, while nearly doubling the state's teacher-certification fund. The legislature appropriated $5 million to launch a school-technology initiative and $2.4 million to expand tech-prep and student apprenticeship programs.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 10/26/94
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| IN | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $2.59 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 2 percent
Comments:
Tight budget year forced lawmakers to scramble to find funding to hold school spending steady.
This year begins six-year period in which state will phase in a new school funding formula that attempts to equalize school aid based on local tax effort.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 8/3/94
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| KS | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $1.655 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 7.1 percent
Comments: Legislature approved a pilot program that will allow as many as 15 state-regulated charter schools to open across the state. State will pay 90 percent of the share of districts' costs for special education students that exceed regular per-pupil expenditures, up from 82 percent.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 11/9/94
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| KY | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $2.26 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 5.3 percent
Comments: The two-year budget will increase K-12 funding by 4 percent more in fiscal 1996, to $2.35 billion. Lawmakers met education department requests for assessment, professional development, administrator evaluation, and regional service centers. Other areas of the 1990 education reform act were funded at lower levels. Education technology won $40 million over two years.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 9/28/94
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| LA | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $1.83 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 2.2 percent
Comments: While the Governor has signed the budget, it must still be approved by a state revenue-estimating panel. The panel's action should not affect education funding. Governor's proposed 5 percent pay hike for teachers and other school employees --contingent on potential gambling revenue from land-based and riverboat casinos-- is still in flux after state officials ordered that a casino contract be rebid.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 6/22/94
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| MA | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $2.06 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 12 percent
Comments: Budget increases funding for 1993 education reforms, such as the state's "foundation aid" formula, charter schools, and a statewide public-school-choice program. Legislature killed a bill that would have allowed charter schools to open this fall instead of in 1995. Legislature barely sustained Governor Weld's veto of a welfare overhaul plan that the governor said did not go far enough.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 9/28/94
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| MD | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $2.1 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 4.9 percent
Comments: Legislature approved a $81 million increase in fudning for public education, including a $22 million hike in pension benefits for teachers. Budget also includes $4 million to establish an English-as-a-second-language program and $400,000 to study the feasibility of year-round schools.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 6/15/94
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| ME | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $501.7 million
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 0.08 percent
Comments: Legislature established a panel to review the state's school-funding formula and evaluate state and local governance policies. Legislature also passed a bill establishing a state magnet school for mathematics and science and voted to explore the possibility of opening a similar school for visual and performing arts.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 9/7/94
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| MI | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $6.7 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 139 percent
Comments: The K-12 budget total reflects passage of a new school-finance program that reduces local property taxes and replaces the local funds with state aid, much of which will be raised through an increase in the state sales tax. The 1995 budget represents a $300 million increase in overall state spending on schools as compared with the previous year.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 6/22/94
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| MN | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $2.75 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 4.2 percent
Comments: The state board of education and the state education department are moving toward adoption of performance-based graduation standards after the legislature scrapped a measure that would have required them to submit the standards for the lawmakers' approval. Legislature set aside $20 million for magnet schools in metropolitan areas and created an office of desegregation in the education department to coordinate district desegregation plans. Legislature approved an omnibus education bill that included several school-safety provisions, including a measure requiring police to share some data regarding juvenile offenders with schools.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 6/22/94
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| MO | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $1.99 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 12.1 percent
Comments: Legislature approved establishment of a riverboat-gambling system, stipulating that a portion of the profits will be used to finance school construction projects.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 6/22/94
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| MS | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $1.535 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 60 percent
Comments: Fiscal 1995 appropriations provided raises for teachers and fully funded health insurance for teachers and other school employees. Legislature approved $36.9 million to expand a tech-prep vocational program and $37.8 million to purchase computer hardware and software for schools. Funds will be derived from the state's general fund and a separate education enhancement fund, and are not included in the regular K-12 budget. Legislature approved $10.1 million in enhancement funds and $9 million in bonding authority to construct new facilities and enhance existing facilities at state's school for blind and deaf. Budget includes two anti-violence initiatives: $2.7 million for a new Youth Challenge National Guard program and $1.2 million for wilderness and forestry rehabilitation camps for at-risk youths. Legislature approved bill requiring state education department to calculate impact of proposed revisions in state's school funding formula that are designed to create greater per-pupil funding equity across districts.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 8/3/94
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| NC | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $3.96 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 9.1 percent
Comments: The legislature approved raises of 5 percent to 7 percent for teachers and 5 percent to 9.6 percent for other school staff members. Funding was approved for a teacher training academy proposed by the Governor. $42 million was appropriated for new computers and technology, and $35.7 million was provided for new school buses, textbooks, and instructional supplies.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 9/28/94
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| NE | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $538.7 million
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 5.9 percent
Comments: Figures for fiscal 1995 reflect changes made by the legislature in the second year of a biennial budget, plus funds appropriated for the first year. Legislature added $1.5 million to the budget for teachers' salaries, as well as $1.7 million in additional general education funds in this year's session.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 5/18/94
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| NH | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $47.4 million
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: -21 percent
Comments: The state education budget was essentially level-funded; the decrease resulted from a one-time, $10 million addition in fiscal 1994. The Governor vetoed a measure that would have fully funded the state's school-finance formula for the first time since its enactment 9 years ago. The Governor argued that there was no money to pay for the increases, and that the state would be forced ot cut other aid to cities and towns. A legislative task force was established to study the adequacy, equity and efficiency of the education-funding system, which a state court has declared unconstitutional. The task force will consider alternative funding mechanisms, including statewide taxes; the relationship between the state and districts; and funding mechanisms for public kindergarten.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 10/26/94
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| NJ | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $4.03 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: -0.05 percent
Comments: Budget shifts $28.5 million from wealthier to poor districts. Also cuts state income taxes as much as 10 percent, and requires teachers and other state employees to pay a greater share of their pension contributions. Legislature eliminated the state department of higher education.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 9/28/94
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| NM | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $1.22 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 8.9 percent
Comments: The 1995 budget includes a pay raise for teachers of about 6 percent. Legislature set a minimum salary of $22,000 a year for teachers and $6 and hour for support staff. Legislature tabled a proposal to phase in full-day kindergarten.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 7/13/94
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| NY | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $9.7 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 6.6 percent
Comments: Legislature appropriated $62 million for the repair of rundown school buildings, particularly in New York City. Legislature approved Governor's proposed "Excelsior" schools for gifted students, but reduced the proposed funding and stipulated that the schools serve commuter students, not boarders as proposed. Legislature increased spending on magnet schools, textbooks, and libraries. New law will require schools to teach about human-rights abuses in history, including slavery in the United States and the Holocaust.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 9/7/94
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| OK | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $1.41 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 3.7 percent
Comments: The legislature appropriated the fifth and final year of funding for the education-reform law known as House Bill 1017. The legislature passed a bill that puts some limits on state payments to districts for gifted and talented students, creates local advisory panels on gifted education, and gives the state education agency responsibility for auditing districts' identification processes. Under the new Community Youth Development Act, a state commission will contract with providers to deliver in-school and school-related programs ot children and families living in at-risk districts and communities. The services are to include child-development, delinquency-prevention, and early-intervention programs. Under another new law, local school districts may use funds derived from a building-fund levy for such purposes as purchasing equipment and computer software, paying utility costs, and installing security systems.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 10/26/94
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| PA | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $5.6 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 3.5 percent
Comments: Poorer school districts will receive additional $123.2 million in state aid, guaranteeing that each district will have a minimum per-pupil foundation budget of $4,700. For the first time in two years, all districts will receive some additional state aid. Budget also provides a $33.9 million boost to special education programs and a $21.3 million increase for early-intervention programs.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 8/3/94
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| RI | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $458.1 million
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 10 percent
Comments: The "guaranteed student entitlement," a bill that would have increased school spending and provided property-tax relief, died in the legislature. It was drafted in response to a ruling that the state's school-funding formula is inequitable. The measure also included reforms that would have held schools more accountable for student performance, provided social services to children and families, and aimed to improve instruction.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 10/19/94
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| SC | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $1.27 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 4 percent
Comments: Budget includes $80 million for early-childhood, parenting, and dropout-prevention programs. Budget calls fro a 3.6 percent pay increase for teachers, financed largely through a 1-cent sales-tax hike. Budget also includes $1.2 million to buy 2,000 school buses.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 10/19/94
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| SD | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $184.9 million
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 9.7 percent
Comments: The $16.3 million hike in state aid to education, a result of increased sales-tax revenues, is the second largest increase in state history. Governor's proposal to eliminate most kinds of categorical education aid and instead provide more money to districts through the general funding formula died in the Senate.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 5/18/94
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| TN | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $1.834 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 4.3 percent
Comments: Budget figures do not include a 4 percent raise for state employees, including teachers, that was contingent on sufficient state revenues. The raise brings the average teacher salary to just over $32,000. Since the 21st Centruy Schools program as adopted in 1992, education funding has rised from 52 percent to 55 percent of the state's general-fund expenditures, for a total increase of $560 million. Under a new law, judges may fine parents or guardians $50 or require them to perform five hours of community service when children in kindergarten through 6th grade miss five or more school days without an excuse. Legislature also enacted a law requiring parents teaching high school-age children at home to have a high school diploma or equivalency diploma. the children must take achievement tests. Another new law bars students from carrying weapons to school. Beginning Jan. l, 1995, gubernatorial appointments to the state school board must alternate between female and male members until the proportion on the 12-member board matches that of the general population. The new law also applies to the state's Board of Regents, Board of Trust, and the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 11/9/94
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| TN | Signed into law 06/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 06/15/95) Request Joint Oversight Committee on Education to study desirability of changing funding of local education under TCA 499-03-0315 to average daily attendance (students enrolled) instead of the present average daily attendance (students who answer to roll call); Education Improvement Act of 1992 used ADM to distribute state portion of funds.
Title: H.J.R. 281 ADA Funding
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $1.09 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 7.4 percent
Comments: Legislature approved a 4.5 percent pay raise for teachers. Budget includes $15.4 million to reduce overcrowding in kindergarten through the 3rd grade. Pilot programs will be launched to test 220-day school year.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 5/18/94
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| VA | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $2.7 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 12 percent
Comments: The legislature approved a biennial budget, which includes $192.8 million in aid to local school districts and $113 million for salary increases for public school employees. Budget also includes a two-year, $103 million "education opportunity and achievement initiative," which will provide $37.5 million in grants to disadvantaged schools to reduce class sizes in grades K-3, $8.3 million to support a technology program in secondary schools, and $10.3 million to expand preschool programs fro at-risk 4-year-olds.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 6/1/94
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| VT | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $194.7 million
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 0.62 percent
Comments: A plan that would have overhauled the state's system for financing education died when the legislature adjourned without reaching a consensus. The Senate had proposed alleviating funding disparities through a system of regional property taxes, while the House measure, which was backed by the Governor, would have ended locally based property-tax financing for school altogether. Other provisions of the bill, which lawmakers expect to revisit next year, would have mandated the development of state standards for schools, students, and educators; the creation of a charter-school program and a public-school-choice plan; and increased collaboration between education and human-services agencies.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 9/28/94
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| WA | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $3.96 billions
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 5 percent
Comments: Legislature passed a juvenile violence law that tightens control of gun sales and pays for community networks to coordinate prevention programs. Another new law gives districts broad discretion in evaluating certified teachers who have received satisfactory reviews for at least four years. Lawmakers passed a law requiring districts to draft and implement sexual harassment policies by June 1995.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 7/13/94
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| WA | Signed into law 06/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 06/19/95) Requires the superintendent of public instruction to develop recommendations for a new allocation formula not later than the 1997-98 school year, based upon the initial implementation of the assessment system for reading, writing, communication, and mathematics.
Title: S.B. 6010 New Allocation Formula
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $5.9 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 4.7 percent
Comments: Governor signed measure mandating a $1 billion, one-third decrease in the amount of school revenue derived from local property taxes by 1997. The measure freezes existing levies at current levels, and establishes a state c commission to devise new sources of state revenue. Legislature also passed a law calling for criminal-background checks on teachers.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 5/11/94
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| WV | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $1.23 billion
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: 3.3 percent
Comments: Teachers will receive a $500 annual salary raise, plus an additional $40 for each year of experience. Legislature passed measure banning corporal punishment. Budget designates $10 million in lottery funds for expansion of computer and basic-skills programs.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 5/11/94
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| WY | 06/1995 | P-12 | FY 1995 K-12 Budget: $314 million
Percent Change in K-12 Budget from 1994: -8.9 percent
Comments: Under the 1995 budget, 32 of the state's 49 school districts will see a decrease in classroom-unit funding, a figure based on enrollment and district facilities. Governor vetoed a provision that would have required the University of Wyoming to offer 10 percent of its full athletic scholarships to high school students from Wyoming. Up to $8 million per year in royalties from mining on school property is designated for a school construction fund. Under a law passed this session, students in grades K-12 will designate the official state dinosaur.
Title: State Education Budgets/Legislation for FY 1994-1995
Source: Education Week, 5/4/94
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| GA | Signed into law 05/1995 | P-12 | $31.2 million has been provided for elementary and secondary schools so that each school in the state will receive $15,000 for classroom computers and technology. The university system will receive $85.8 million (in addition to its original appropriation of $33.9 million) for technology and equipment purchases and for construction. For 1995-96, funding for the voluntary pre-kindergarten program will increase from $78.2 million to $160.6 million, expanding service from 20,000 at-risk four year olds to all four year olds in the state. In addition about $20 million will go toward various technology purchases in elementary and secondary schools. (Legislative Report 5/95, No. 4)
Title: Budget Adjustments to Quality Basic Education (QBE) Finance Program
Source: Southern Regional Education Board
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| KS | Signed into law 05/1995 | P-12 | Increased base state aid per pupil (BSAPP) from $3,600 to $3,626; added the new correlation weighting which, if phased in over a four year period as intended, will provide a 3.6121% enrollment adjustment for all school districts with full time enrollments of 1,800 or more; increased the contingency reserve fund limitation from 2.0% to 4.0% of the school district general fund budget and relaxed requirements for accessing this spending authority; eliminated the provision that required the 25% local option budget cap to be reduced commensurately with BSAPP increases; provided for a three year extension of the special provision which, under certain circumstances, authorizes a school district to levy a property tax for two years to help defray the additional costs of operating new school facilities and made more flexible the enrollment increase standard that must be met in order to qualify for access to this taxing authority; established a 90% "hold harmless" provision for 14 school districts expected in the 1995-96 school year to experience enrollment losses due to the downsizing of the Fort Riley Military Reservation; and addressed certain matters of specific interest to the Shawnee Heights and Piper school districts.
Title: H.B. 2152 School Finance
Source: Kansas Legislative Research Department
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| KY | Passed 05/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 05/01/95) Defines average daily attendance of pupils for funding purposes under the Support Educational Excellence in Kentucky Program; bases state funding upon average daily attendance; defines the minimum age for school attendance; defines attendance credit for moral instruction and 4-H activities; requires attendance records to be kept by teachers.
Title: 702 KAR 7:050 & 702 KAR 7:125 Average Daily Pupil Attendance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 05/1995 | P-12 | Repealed the existing state aid formula and created a new state aid formula, which is driven by average daily membership rather than expenditures. The new formula will be phased in over a period of years.
Title: H.B. 1351 State Aid Formula
Source: Legislative Research Council
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| TN | Signed into law 05/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 05/30/95) Requires allocation of state funds for local education agency to be calculated on basis of current year average daily membership, full time equivalent average daily membership, and identified and special education students minus 2% if enrollment growth was above 2% for the year.
Title: H.B. 1141/S.B. 1467 Finance Formula
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AR | Signed into law 04/1995 | P-12 | Gov. Jim Guy Tucker signed legislation that mandates a minimum property tax as a partial response to a court order to make school funding more equitable. A second law that was signed sets a 10 percent income tax surcharge on taxpayers in districts where voters reject the minimum tax rate of $225 per $1000 of their assessed property value. Legislators may send a constitutional admendment to the voters in the fall giving the state power to equalize property tax revenues by redirecting some funds from the wealthier districts to the poorer ones. Voter approval is unlikely. Currently the per pupil spending ranges from $1900 to nearly $8700. The new laws will force 125 of the state's 312 districts to raise their proparty tax. Legislators are also debating a bill for a Novemeber ballot initiative on a constitutional amendment that would give the legislature authority to levy a uniform statewide property tax whose revenues would be distributed according to an equalization formula.
Title: Minimum Property Tax, Penalty Approved in Ark.
Source: Education Week, April 12, 1995, p.14
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| AR | Signed into law 04/1995 | P-12 | Requires the Education Department to develop "statistical" procedures that will ensure timely computations to help equalize funding for public schools.
Title: H.B. 2145 - Statistics for Funding Equalization
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 04/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 04/21/95) Requires the State Department of Education to provide additional information and financial assistance to schools in which 30% or more of the school enrollment consists of children who have applied and qualify for free and reduced-price meals.
Title: S.B. 59 Financial Assistance to Children Who are At Risk of Dropping Out
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| GA | Signed into law 04/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 04/18/95) Relates to the Quality Basic Education Formula, so as to change provisions relating to educational funding; provides for a construction reserve trust fund; provides for a change in the program weights allotted to state authorized instructional programs.
Title: H.B. 129 Quality Basic Education Formula
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 04/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 04/16/95) Increases base state aid per pupil; affects the definition of state prescribed percentage for the purposes of local option budgets; relates to the ad valorem tax levy authority of certain districts for operation of new school facilities.
Title: H.B. 2152 School District Finance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MT | Signed into law 04/1995 | P-12 | Revises certain school finance laws; changes the status of school district general bonus payments in determining general fund balance operating reserve funds; allows rural school districts to negotiate for voluntary impact payments to the district building fund to cover development in the district.
Title: S.B. 423 - School Finance
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NH | Died 04/1995 | P-12 | Designates certain taxes and revenue to fund public kindergarten.
Title: S.B. 96 Finances for Public Kindergarten
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 03/1995 | P-12 | (Effective: 03/31/95) Concerns school districts; relates to the authority of boards of education to purchase certain items for pupil use and to assess and collect fees for such use.
Title: S.B. 191 Purchase Items for Students and Collect Fees
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/1995 | P-12 | Defines the term "school impact fee." Prohibits a county, city, town, or school district from imposing or collecting a school impact fee.
Title: H.B. 32 - School Impact Fees
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| SD | Signed into law 02/1995 | P-12 | Permits school boards to charge a fee for the use of school parking facilities.
Title: H.B. 1137 - Student Fees
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 08/1994 | P-12 | During the 1994 legislative session, lawmakers provided an additional $53,576,432 for the H.B. 1017 reforms enacted in 1990. The total annual and cumulative appropriations for H.B. 1017 are illustrated in Chart 5. FY-95 represents the fifth and final year of increased funding for H.B. 1017 reforms implementation. Since its passage in 1990, over $2.0 billion has been appropriated to H.B. 1017 programs. The most significant amount of funding provided for minimum salary increases for beginning teachers in order to make the education profession more competitive with other states and with other professions in Oklahoma (see Chart 6).
Title: H.B. 1017 (1990)
Source: 1994 Session Highlights
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| OK | Signed into law 08/1994 | P-12 | The needs of growing school districts were addressed in H.B. 2761 which appropriates $5.4 million from the Constitutional (Chart 6) Reserve Fund to the State Board of Education for the 1993-94 mid-term Statutory Minimum Salary for adjustment. This appropriated level constitutes 51 percent of the determined need.
Title: H.B. 2761
Source: 1994 Session Highlights
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| VT | Signed into law 08/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 05/16/94) This act designates the Vermont Higher Education Council as the Vermont postsecondary review entity for the purpose of reviewing the practices of institutions of higher education that receive certain federal funds, in order to ensure that they are meeting federally established criteria.
Title: h.238 Vermont Postsecondary Review Entity
Source: Summary of Acts and Resolutions
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| ID | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | A group of school superintendents representaing districts involved in the state funding litigation proposed these amendments to the public school funding formula. The changes include the following: 1) The local school district contribution calculation is increased from 0.36% to 0.40% of market value. 2) The elementary support unit divisor for districts with more than 300 elementary pupils is reduced from 23 to 20 over a three year period for grades 1, 2, and 3. 3) A significant amount of state funds will be distributed on the basis of a calculation driven by: a) A minimum number of staff, b) The education and experience of the certificated staff, and c) a base salary amount for each of three classifications of staff. 4) The money for state paid benefits (social security and retirement) will be basically run through the formula instead of being taken off the top as in the past. 5) Eliminated the separate funding for special education personnel that previously had 80% of their total salary costs paid directly by the state. 6) Requires that each school district receive a minimum 8% funding increase for FY 1995, or the entire legislation is negated. (Legislative Summary 1994)
Title: S.B. 1560 State Funding Litigation
Source: Budget and Policy Analysis
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| ID | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | In response to the decision of the courts that the legislature is not providing a thorough system of schools as required by the constitution, this legislation defines the elements of a thorough system of public schools. Eight general basic assumptions are listed as provisions of a thorough system. (Legislative Summary 1994)
Title: S.B. 1291 Constitutional Education System
Source: Budget and Policy Analysis
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| MN | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | Appropriations of $1.5 million in operating grants and $20 million in state bond funds for facility improvements are available for metropolitan wide voluntary desegregation and integration efforts. The funds will be used by Minneapolis and St. Paul and suburban school districts to design and operate magnet programs that will be open to students from all the participating districts. A state office of desegregation/integration is established in the MN Dept of Ed to coordinate and support metropolitan district efforts. (Legislative Summary 1994)
Title: Funds for facility improvements
Source: House of Representatives
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| MN | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | Despite all the discussion about reducing the property tax revenue recognition shift as far as possible, the shift was reduced to 37.4% with the $172 million that was available before the session started. The funding for additional shift reduction that was in both House and Senate bills was used to return the state budget reserve to $500 million and to cover spending in other areas. THe Governor won the fight to take back the $172 million from school districts. A provision that was inserted in the supplemental appropriations bill states that the governor can return the shift to 48% if the projected budget reserve for June 30, 1997, is not enough. (Jola Education Monthly vol 1, no 7, 6/94)
Title: Property Tax Recognition Shift
Source: Jola Education Monthly
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| MN | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | Going into the 1994 session, school property taxes payable in 1995 were projected to increase by 10% over 1994 on a statewide average. Because of several property tax relief provisions that totaled about $44 million, the 1995 increases should be less than 8% statewide. (Jola Education Monthly vol 1, no 7, 6/94)
Title: Property Tax Relief
Source: Jola Education Monthly
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| MN | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | The portion of the general education formula that school districts are required to spend for staff development programs is increased from 2% ($63 per pupil unit) in 1994-95 to 2.5% ($79 per pupil unit) in 1995-96. (Legislative Summary 1994)
Title: Funding Staff Development
Source: House of Representatives
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| MN | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | Even though the concept of metropolitan wide desegregation was met with a lot of skepticism before the session started, it appears that the Legislature took the idea seriously. The education finance bill includes $2 million in several programs aimed at establishing metropolitan magnet schools and recruiting and training more minority staff. The bonding bill includes $20 million to fund a portion of the cost of two buildings for magnet programs that are planned jointly between districts implementing desegregation/integration plans and neighboring districts. (Jola Education Monthly vol 1, no 7, 6/94)
Title: Desegregation
Source: Jola Education Monthly
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| MN | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | The most surprising aspect of the 1994 education finance bill is the amount of funding for school districts that it contained - a total of $49 million in new state funding for this biennium: All school districts will receive an additional $17.10 per pupil unit in 1994-95 to offset a portion of the general education formula that must be reserved for staff development. Because of a change in the way kindergarten students are counted, districts will receive an additional $94 per kindergarten student. Capital expenditure equipment revenue is increased by $3 per pupil unit. District cooperation revenue is increased from $50 per pupil unit to $67. (Jola Education Monthly vol 1, no 7,6/94)
Title: School Legislation '94: A Scorecard
Source: Jola Education Monthly
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| NM | Signed into law 06/1994 | P-12 | The New Mexico Legislature appropriated more than $1.2 billion for the funding of public education, an increase of more than $96.0 million (8.6%) over the 1993-94 appropriation. In adition, the Legislature appropriated $2.9 million for specific projects and $67.0 million (reduced to $66.0 million due to the Governor's line item vetoes) in capital outlay projects for a total appropriation of nearly $1.3 billion for public schools. (LESC 5/31/94)
The $1.2 billion for public school support includes -- for the 318,000 students expected in the state's classrooms for the 1994-95 school year -- $7.6 million for enrollment growth, $3.7 million to fund the increase in the bilingual education funding, $8.7 million to fund the implementation of class size averaging in grades 4-6, $1.4 million to fund the change in requirements for placement in Gifted Education, and $1.7 million to fund distributions to school districts to increase school library and audio visual collections.
The Legislature provided funding for a 6.0% statewide average salary increase for teachers, a 5.8% statewide average salary increase for all other school employees, and $2.3 million for a minimuim $6 per hour salary for noncertified school employees. Also included are funds for the continuation of the $22,000 minimum salary for teachers which was instituted in 1993. (LESC 5/31/94)
Title: Public School Funding
Source: State of NM
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| AL | Signed into law 05/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 05/28/94) Makes an appropriation for the support and development of public education in Alabama, for debt services and capital outlay for the fiscal year ending Sept 30, 1995. The legislature plans to convene in a second special session to develop a distribution formula for K-12. (Legislative Link, Regular Legislative Session - 1994)
Title: H 193 (Act 94-470) Appropriation for Public Education
Source: Alabama State Department of Education, Division of Legislative Services
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| AL | Signed into law 05/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 05/17/94) Requires that all students in Alabama's public schools be provided adequate textbooks and instruction, general instructional support, and adequate facilities. (Legis. Link, First Special Legislative Session 1994)
Title: H 113 (Act 94-823) Adequate Support and Facilities
Source: Alabama State Department of Education, Division of Legislative Services
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| CO | Signed into law 05/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 07/01/94) Adopts a new school finace act for the 94-95 budget year. As amended, establishes a statewide per pupil funding base of $3,390 which is adjusted by a cost of living factor and a size factor. Increases a district's base funding by an amount to represent additional cost for at risk pupils. Provides for an Oct count within the budget year. (Bill Board 5/19/94)
Title: H.B. 1001 School Finance
Source: CO Assoc of School Boards
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| IA | Signed into law 05/1994 | P-12 | The Iowa Legislature met its self imposed deadline and approved a 2.85% allowable growth rate for K-12 schools next year. Statewide, school districts will receive about $43.8 million more next year than the current year. Some 90 districts, however, are conspicuously absent from the list of districts that will get budget increases next year. Because of recent changes in the school funding law, their budgets will be frozen at the current level. About 50 of those districts will be forced to operate with the same budget they had four years ago. Early on, the idea got mired in the debate over where the money to fund the increase would come from. Gov. Branstad had recommended that it be funded out of local property tax; a number of lawmakers had wanted it to come from state funds. In either event, it would only cost a little more than $2 million. Unfortunately, the K-12 funding increases are far too low considering the ever improving state budget outlook. Because state law now requires that those funding decisions be made within the first 30 days of the session, public schools were not able to benefit from recent increases in state revenue. (Communique Vol 31, No 7, April/May 1994)
Title: Lawmakers reach accord on school budget issues
Source: Iowa State Education Association
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| MD | Signed into law 05/1994 | P-12
Community College | The Fiscal Year 1995 budget contains not only a $131 million increase in State Assistance to local governments, but also a $104 million increase in State Aid for public school construction. The compromises preserved APEX at $3,300 and added grants for students with limited English proficiency ($4 million), targeted poverty grants proportional to the counties' share of free and reduced price lunch counts ($5 million), increased support for certain gifted and talented and magnet school programs ($3 million and a $2.96 million community college equity grant. $3.14 million for new approaches to dealing with disruptive youth and greater expenditure at the middle school level for MD's Tomorrow program (children at risk). A $20 million increase was placed on reducing the State's school construction problems. (Action Line 5/94)
Title: Legislative Session Spells Success for Schools
Source: MD State Teachers Association
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| MN | 05/1994 | P-12 | Although Gov Carlson threatened to veto the K-12 bill, the bill was spared any line item vetos after a last minute cut of $9 million by the conference committee. The $9 million was slated for schools with poor students. The bottom line in the bill is $40 million in new spending, $176 million to reverse part of the funding shift, and $24 million for the technical college shift payment. The largest funding increases in the bill are targeted for staff development and class size reduction. The K-12 bill also begins the process of beginning metrowide desegregation. The bill provides $2 million for programs to implement this plan. Program grants totalling $1.5 million will be used for planning magnet schools for desegregation. In addition, a $500,000 grant is available for teachers of color, mentorship programs and other desegregation related programs. (Action 5/24/94)
Title: Governor spares K-12 bill veto pen
Source: MN Federation of Teachers
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| NE | Signed into law 05/1994 | P-12 | When Nebraska's school finance law (LB 1059) passed in 1990, a provision was included which required the Department of Revenue to do an independent assessment of the value of properties by school district. This information would by given to the Department of Education beginning March 1, 1994, and each year thereafter, to be used to determine the true property wealth in each district for the purpose of calculating "need". With county assessors being elected officials, it was believed that an incentive existed for them to keep valuations artificially low so the state would fill in the wealth gap with more state aid. It was hoped that an independent assessment would solve this problem. Failed attempts were made to delay or eliminate this requirement during this session. As a result of hours of debate, LB 1290 requires valuation adjustments to occur and state aid be distributed for school year 1994-95, based on adjusted valuations for the property tax year 1994. This eliminates the current "two years in arrears" system, and ties the inevitable fluctuation of state aid more closely to those economic impacts resulting from current circumstances. Incentives for low valuations. are eliminated and school districts receive the most current information available on which to determine budgets for upcoming school years. (Legislative Summary 1994)
Title: LB 1059 School Finance
Source: Nebraska State Legislature
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| WI | Signed into law 05/1994 | P-12 | Governor Thompson has signed a measure designed to reduce the amount of school funding derived from property taxes. The measure freezes local school tax levies and calls for the amount raised through property taxes to drop by nearly $1 billion a year by 1997. It does not specify how those funds will be replaced. (Ed Week 5/4/94)
Title: Property Tax Freeze
Source: Education Week
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| WI | Signed into law 05/1994 | P-12 | Gov. Thompson has signed A.B. 1126, the budget adjustment bill, setting the stage for a $1 billion increase in state aids over the next two years. A.B. 1126 includes a $177.5 million increase in state aid to school districts during fiscal year 1995 and establishes a commission charged with increasing state support for K-12 education to 60%. When asked whether he would raise sales or income taxes to fund the new property tax relief proposal, Thompson responded that he would not. The gov. stressed that some of the money to fund the proposal would come from the continued growth of WI's economy. Additional funds are expected from reorganizing and streamling state government. Only after these efforts are complete, Thomspon said, would other options such as expanding the sales tax be considered. (Legislative Letter 5/5/94)
Title: A.B. 1126 Budget Bill
Source: WI Assoc of School Boards
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| CO | Signed into law 04/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 06/30/94) The Colorado legislature has given final approval to a new school finance formula. The new formula is based on more traditional criteria - district enrollment, with adjustments for the local cost of living and the number of at risk students. The bill includes base funding of $3,390 per pupil. (Ed. Week 4/20/94) Enacts the 1994 Public School Finance Act to replace the 1988 act; creates a new funding formula based on individual district characteristics; sets a statewide per student funding base of $3390, adjusted by size and cost of living factors for each district. (CO Education Association Journal Vol 109, No 5, June/July 1994)
Title: Colorado Lawmakers Clear New Finance System
Source: Education Week
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| ID | Passed 04/1994 | P-12 | More than 40 of Idaho's 113 districts have filed suit against the state, claiming that the finance system is unconstitutional because the state has failed to support a "uniform and thorough" system of public education as stipulated in its constitution. One group of plaintiffs argues that the state does not provide enough total resources to schools; another group has focused on disparities between disticts. The formula is based on "support units" - student counts that are weighted by grade level and to account for special needs. It also would reduce state aid by the amount each district would raise under a theoretical statewide property tax rate. The bill adds a new provision, under which state officials would apply a formula to each district's total support units to determine its staffing needs. The formula uses a base starting salary of $19,328 for teachers, then factors in the experience and credentials of a districts's actual teaching staff to calculate the aid each district would receive. If a district opted to employ fewer teachers than the formula allotted, state aid would be reduced accordingly. Otherwise, districts with lower salaries and staffing levels would generally have more money to work with than districts of a simialr size that had more teachers and paid higher salaries. (Ed. Week 4/13/94)
Title: Idaho Lawmakers Back Restructured Finance System
Source: Education Week
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| IL | Passed 04/1994 | P-12 | Revises conditions under which the State Board of Education may certify school districts to be in financial difficulty. Authorizes the State Board of Education to make block grants for school planning and school improvement purposes, subject to appropriation. Establishes a grant program administered by the State Board of Education for the conduct of K-12 parenting programs for parents of children from kindergarten through high school, including provisions with respect to home visits until July 1, 1996 with informed parental consent in K-12 parenting programs. Authorizes programs and services funded by scientific literacy grants to be made available to private school teachers and students if public schools already have been afforded adequate access. Permits State reimbursement under the applicable formula for special education facilities and services rendered with respect to children who have not been identified as eligible for special education. Repeals the tax equivalent grant provisions on July 1, 1995. In the school aid formula provides that "full days" (now, "days") used for parent teacher conferences shall not be considered for computing average daily attendance. Also revises state aid provisions for laboratory schools and alternative schools. Amends the Vocational Education Act to change the composition of and qualifications for certain appointments to the Sex Equity Advisory Committee. (The Legislature and the Schools Vol XV, No 5, 4/6/94)
Title: H.B. 2638 Financial Difficulty for School Districts
Source: IL State Board of Education
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| OH | Signed into law 04/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 07/01/94) Revises Ohio's enterprise zone and other tax abatement programs, generally bars tax abatements above 75% in incorporated areas and 60% in unincorporated areas without approval of the board of the affected city, exempted village or local school district, requires entities granting abatements to meet and confer with affected boards or their designees upon request, and creates a procedure for the sharing of newly generated income tax revenue between cities and school districts. (OH School Boards Assoc Legislative Report 4/11/94)
Title: S.B. 19 Tax Abatements
Source: Ohio School Boards Association Legislative Report
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| OH | Signed into law 04/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 04/01/94) Budget corrections bill for the 1994-95 biennium. Eliminates the requirement that the State Department of Education approve local district curriculums, makes changes in the procedures for obtaining BCII background checks and delays the first filing date for financial disclosure forms from April 15, 1994 to April 15, 1995. (OH School Boards Assoc 4/11/94)
Title: H.B. 715 Budget Corrections Bill
Source: Ohio School Boards Association Legislative Report
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| VA | Signed into law 04/1994 | P-12 | Permits Virginia Tech to expend nongeneral funds from all its continuing education programs to pay for the University's share of the operating costs of the Commission and limits Virginia Tech in paying for such operating costs to only those continuing education program revenues generated by the Hotel Roanoke's continuing education program. (Statenet 4/10/94)
Title: H.B. 191 Continuing Education
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| WI | Passed 04/1994 | P-12 | Wisconsin legislators have agreed on a plan to increase state funding for education to provide property tax relief. The measure calls for a commission consisting of the governor, state superintendent, and legislative leaders to devise means of generating an additional $1 billion in state revenue to increase the state's share of public school funding from about 40% to roughly 60%. The amount of school funding derived from property taxes would drop from $3 billion to $2 billion under the plan, shaving about $450 from the typical home owner's property tax bill for 1996. (Ed. Week 4/6/94)
Title: Wisconsin Legislature Clears Property Tax Reductions
Source: Education Week
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| IN | Signed into law 03/1994 | P-12 | Permits a school corporation, under certain circumstances, to use its capital projects fund to pay for services of certain employees, such as carpenters, electricians, plumbers, or other comparably skilled craft employees. Limits the number of employees that are covered by this authorization. (Statenet 3/4/94)
Title: S.B. 299 Use of Capital Funds to Pay for Certain Services
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NH | Passed 03/1994 | P-12 | The NH House has approved a bill that would more than double the amount of aid the state currently provides to school districts. Created in 1985 by John Augenblick in an attempt to ease fiscal disparities across district lines in a state where local property taxes have been the predominant source of school revenues. NH ranks last among the states in the percentage of funds it provides to public schools, supplying only about 7% of education spending. If the measure becomes law, it would pump an additional $60 million into the state's foundation aid support for K-12 education, beginning in fiscal 1996, and somewhat larger amounts in subsequent years. The state currently supplies about $47 million in foundation aid. The House vote "represents tax and spend legislation sending an empty promise to the schoolchildren of NH," stated Gov. Steve Merrill. "There is no mechanism to either raise taxes or cut other programs in this bill, and that's precisely what will need to be done." NH's average per pupil spending in the 1992-93 school year was $4,993, ranking it ahead of more than half the states. (Ed Week 3/30/94)
Title: Augenblick Bill
Source: Education Week
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| PA | Passed 03/1994 | P-12 | Amends the act to provide revenue for school districts of the first class A by imposing a temporary mercantile license tax on persons engaged in certain occupations and businesses therein. Further Provides for license fees. (Statenet 3/8/94)
Title: H.B. 2187 Revenue for School Districts
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| PA | Signed into law 03/1994 | P-12 | Amends the Public School Code of 1949. Provides for use of funds by the State Public School Building Authority. Provides for financing for school building property and for leasing of telecommunications and distance learning equipment, for the center for Rural Pennsylvania and for the weather emergency of 1994. (Statenet 3/8/94)
Title: S.B. 375 Distance Learning
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MI | Signed into law 02/1994 | P-12 | (Effective: 05/01/94) Proposal A passed March 15 when 69% of Michigan voters said "yes" to a sales tax hike from 4 to 6 cents on a dollar to fund public education. Passage of Proposal A pushed property tax back to 6 mills on homesteads, 24 mills on non homestead property. Districts still have the option of up to 3 enrichment mills for 1994, 1995 and 1996. School districts already spending more than $6,500 per pupil can levy whatever millage necessary to reach the level of funding they had before Proposal A passed. (MI Association of School Boards Headlines 3/18/94)
S.B. 1 - Michigan voted last July to eliminate property tax as a source of school funding beginning with the 1994-95 school year. By enacting no replacement revenues, lawmakers have forced the Governor, the Legislature, and the public to address the school finance issue. While the whole country watches, Michigan - the first state to eliminate the sole source of funding without any solution - must now develop a new funding system for education. The bill includes four significant provisions: 1) All property is exempt from local school district and intermediate school district operating millage beginning December 31, 1993. Consequently, school funding from local property taxes for 1994-95 is eliminated. 2) Starting in 1994 the assessment on which taxes are levied is delayed one year. Therefore, the 1994 levy will be based on assessments as of the end of 1992 rather than the end of 1993. 3) No more than two ballot requirements for millage elections will be allowed annually, and questions of millage renewal and increase must be separate. The ballot must also state the amount of revenue to be raised by the millage. 4) Local governments are not allowed to automatically roll up "Headlee" millage rates, which are increases without voter approval, in years when assessments increase less than the rate of inflation. In 1994 millage reductions required by the constitution will permanently reduce the maximum authorized millage rates. (Policy Seminars NCREL, Winter 1994) Michigan voters this month selected a new way to pay for their public schools. "Proposal A," restores some school reliance on property taxes, but also factors in an increased state sales tax, a higher cigarette tax, a real estate transfer tax and an estimated $40 million in annual revenues from a new state lottery. Most components take effect May 1. The measure sets a minimum of $4,200 per pupil and makes provisions for increasing low spending districts' allotments to $5,000 per pupil within five years. The proposal also earmarks $230 million in school year 1994-95 for at risk students. Critics, however, said the proposal could freeze inequities in place by restricting local school taxes for non-operating expenses. They also charged the plan will raise less than an alternative that relied more on income taxes. (Education USA, 3/28/94) Michigan voters approved a plan to use higher sales taxes instead of income and property taxes to finace public education. Proposal A will raise the sales tax from 4% to 6%, triple cigarette taxes from 25 cents to 75 cents a pack, and return about $1.9 billion to property owners, effective May 1, 1994. Passage of Proposal A is a major victory for Governor John Engler, who is up for re-election this year and vowed after his 1990 election victory to slash property taxes by 20%. The states's new financing strategy includes provisions to begin equalizing spending by rich and poor districts throughout the state by giving each district $4,200 per student, $1,000 more than the poorest districts now spend. (School Board News 3/29/94)
Title: S.B. 1, Proposal A
Source:
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| PA | 02/1994 | P-12 | Amends the Public School Code of 1949. Provides for payments to school districts. Provides for the merger of school districts. (Statenet 2/14/94)
Title: S.B. 1578 Merger of School Districts
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| Students |
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| Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
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| Students--Employment |
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| Students--Incentives |
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| Students--K-12 Exchange Students |
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| Students--Mobility |
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| Students--Records/Rights |
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| Teaching Quality |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Assignment |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Special Education |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--State Prof. Standards Bds. |
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| Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Substitute Teachers |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
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| Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
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| Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
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| Teaching Quality--Preparation |
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| Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
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| Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--High-Needs Subjects |
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| Teaching Quality--Reduction in Force |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Attitudes |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Contracts (Not Tenure) |
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| Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
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| Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
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| Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining |
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| Teaching Quality--Unions/Collective Bargaining--Strikes |
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| Teaching Quality--Working Conditions |
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| Technology |
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| Technology--Computer Skills |
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| Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
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| Technology--Equitable Access |
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| Technology--Funding Issues |
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| Technology--Internet Safety |
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| Technology--Research/Evaluation |
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| Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training |
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| Textbooks and Open Source |
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| Urban |
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| Urban--Change/Improvements |
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| Urban--Governance |
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| Whole-School Reform Models |
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| Whole Child |
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