Strike everything after the enacting
clause and insert:
"Section 1. Arizona board of regents; support and maintenance; supplemental
appropriation reduction; transfer; appropriation
A. In addition to the reductions made pursuant to
Laws 2009, first special session, chapter 1, section 3, the sum of $100,000,000
is reduced from the appropriation made from the state general fund in fiscal
year 2008‑2009 to the Arizona board of regents for the support and
maintenance of institutions under its jurisdiction and is transferred to the
state general fund. The Arizona board of regents shall reduce funding to the
institutions under its jurisdiction in proportion to the state general fund
appropriation received by each institution.
B. In addition to any other amounts appropriated to
the Arizona board of regents for fiscal year 2009‑2010, the sum of $100,000,000
is appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2009‑2010 to
the Arizona board of regents to be distributed for the support and maintenance
of institutions under its jurisdiction in two equal payments on or before
August 1, 2009 and September 1, 2009. The Arizona board of regents shall
distribute the monies appropriated in this subsection to the institutions under
its jurisdiction in an amount equal to the reduction made pursuant to
subsection A of this section.
Sec. 2. Department of education; school districts; state aid
apportionment; supplemental appropriation reduction; transfer; fiscal year 2008‑2009
Notwithstanding any other law, the sum of $300,000,000 is
reduced from appropriations made from the state general fund in fiscal year
2008‑2009 to the department of education and the superintendent of public
instruction for basic state aid and additional state aid to school districts
and is transferred to the state general fund. The appropriation
reduction required by this section does not apply to charter schools or to
school districts that qualify for an exemption from the general budget limit
either for pupils in kindergarten programs and grades one through eight or for
pupils in grades nine through twelve, or both, pursuant to section 15-949,
Arizona Revised Statutes.
Sec. 3. Department of education; federal education stabilization
fund; supplemental appropriation reduction; transfer; legislative intent;
fiscal year 2008-2009
A. Notwithstanding any other law, if this state
receives federal assistance from the federal education stabilization fund, the
sum of $250,000,000 is reduced from appropriations made from the state general
fund in fiscal year 2008-2009 to the department of education and is transferred
to the state general fund.
B. It is the intent
of the legislature that in fiscal year 2008-2009, $250,000,000 will be
disbursed from the federal education stabilization fund to the department of
education in order to restore the funding reduction made in subsection A.
These monies shall be disbursed in accordance with the provisions of the
American recovery and reinvestment act of 2009."
Amend title to conform
