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  State of Arizona
  House of Representatives
  Forty-ninth Legislature
  First Regular Session
  2009
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        CHAPTER 5
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     HOUSE BILL 2028
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AN ACT

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS, BUDGET REDUCTIONS AND TRANSFERS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008-2009.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

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.

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR MAY 14, 2009.

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE MAY 14, 2009.