HALE FLOOR AMENDMENT
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AMENDMENTS TO S.B. 1447
(Reference to Senate engrossed bill)
Page 45, after line 38, insert:
"Sec. 13. School district overstatements of average daily membership; correction
A. Notwithstanding section 15‑905, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act, and section 15‑915, Arizona Revised Statutes, a school district that overstated its average daily membership during fiscal years 2008‑2009, 2009‑2010 and 2010‑2011 shall be required to correct the overstatement over a period of five years, beginning in fiscal year 2012‑2013 and ending in fiscal year 2016‑2017. The repayment amount shall be paid in equal installments in each of the four remaining fiscal years after fiscal year 2012‑2013. This subsection applies to a school district if all of the following conditions exist:
1. The school district is a unified school district that is located on an Indian reservation.
2. The school district borders the states of Utah and New Mexico.
3. The school district's average daily membership for the 2011‑2012 school year was more than seven hundred pupils and less than one thousand pupils.
4. The overstatement was the result of the school district enrolling and counting in its average daily membership pupils who were not residents of this state but who were residents of another state and these pupils were not eligible to be included in the school district's average daily membership pursuant to an audit finding published by the department of education in August 2012.
5. The total amount of the correction necessary as a result of the overstatements is more than two million dollars and less than two million five hundred thousand dollars.
B. In addition to monies required to be repaid under subsection A of this section, accrued interest shall be paid at a rate determined by the superintendent of public instruction."
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Albert Hale |