Page 3, line
23, strike the comma
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24 through 29
Line 30,
strike "tuition for these pupils as provided in subsection J of this
section"
Page 4, line
23, after the period strike remainder of line
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24 through 31
Page 5,
strike lines 1 through 28, insert "For the purposes of
determining student count and for APPORTIONMENT of state aid, the school
membership of these pupils is deemed to be enrollment in the unified school
district."
Page 7,
strike lines 24 through 32
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8 and 9
Page 10,
strike lines 1 through 12
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Line 22,
strike "such"; after "certificate" insert "of educational convenience"
Line 32,
strike "purpose" insert "purposes"
Page 11,
line 1, after "count" insert "and providing a
free and appropriate public education pursuant to the individuals with
disabilities education act (20 United States Code chapter 33)"
Between
lines 2 and 3, insert:
"3. To a high school without the presentation of a
certificate of educational convenience if the pupil is a resident of a
transporting school district that does not offer instruction in the pupil's
grade. Tuition shall be charged as prescribed in subsection E of this section
for each pupil who is admitted pursuant to this paragraph. For the purposes of
determining student count and for apportionment of state aid, The school
membership of these pupils is deemed to be enrollment in the school district of
the pupil's residence."
Page 11,
line 23, strike "and subsection A, paragraph 2 of this
section" insert "and subsection A, paragraph 2 3 of this section"
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31 and 32
Page 12,
strike lines 1 through 8, insert:
"1. The
number of high school pupils for which tuition may be charged to a common transporting school district that is not within a high school district is equal to the
average daily membership in the district of attendance from the common transporting school district for the prior fiscal year, except that for the first year in which a common school district not
within a high school district stops teaching high school subjects, the district
of attendance may charge tuition for the number of pupils that is equal to the
average daily membership for high school pupils in the common school district
for the prior fiscal year. This number may be adjusted if the common transporting school district
increases its revenue control limit and district support level."
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conform
Line 28,
strike "2 1" insert
"2"
Page 13,
line 23, strike "subdivisions" insert "subdivision";
strike "and (d)"
Page 14,
strike lines 21 through 31
Page 15,
strike lines 1 through 5
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13 through 32
Strike pages
16 and 17
Page 18,
strike lines 1 through 5
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conform
Page
26, between lines 9 and 10, insert:
"Sec. 4. Section
15-943.01, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE15-943.01. Maintenance
and operation budget balance; definition
A. The
governing board of a school district may budget any budget balance in the
maintenance and operation section of the budget, as provided in section 15-903,
from the current fiscal year for use in the maintenance and operation section
of the budget in the budget year. The amount that may be budgeted as
the budget balance carryforward in any one fiscal year shall not include any
budget balance attributable to any reduction in the district's general budget
limit, including reductions for items that are exempt from the revenue control
limit and for which expenditures are limited to a designated purpose such as
monies levied pursuant to section 15-910, subsection G or for
the bond issues portion of the cost of tuition. The amount
budgeted as the budget balance carryforward is specifically exempt from the
revenue control limit.
B. If
the actual amount of the allowable budget balance carryforward is less than the
amount budgeted for the budget balance carryforward, the governing board shall
adjust the general budget limit and expenditures before May 15 based on the
actual allowable budget balance carryforward. If the actual amount of the
allowable budget balance carryforward is more than the amount budgeted for the
budget balance carryforward, the governing board may adjust its budget before
May 15 based on the actual amount of the allowable fund balance carryforward.
Not later than May 18, the budget as revised shall be submitted electronically
to the superintendent of public instruction.
C. If
the governing board is eligible to budget for a budget balance carryforward as
provided in subsection A of this section, the governing board may transfer an
amount from the district's ending cash balance of the maintenance and
operations fund to the school opening fund. The school opening fund
is a cash controlled fund as provided in section 15-905, subsection N,
and may only be expended spent only for the additional maintenance and operations
expenses incurred in the first year of operation of a new school within the
school district. The monies in the school opening fund are not
subject to reversion, except that at the end of five years of no activity in
the fund, any remaining monies shall be reverted revert to the maintenance and operations fund. Any monies so
reverted may be considered additional budget balance for that fiscal year.
D. If
a governing board transfers monies as provided in subsection C of this section,
the amount so transferred in a fiscal year shall be subtracted from the amount
the district would otherwise be eligible to budget for that fiscal year as
provided in subsection A of this section. The difference, if any, is
the maximum amount that may be budgeted for that fiscal year as a budget
balance carryforward.
E. For
the purposes of this section, "budget balance" means the difference
between actual and budgeted expenditures. END_STATUTE
Sec. 5. Section
15-947, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE15-947. Revenue
control limit; district support level; general budget limit; unrestricted total
capital budget limit; district additional assistance limit
A. The
revenue control limit for a school district is equal to the sum of the base
revenue control limit determined in section 15-944 and the transportation
revenue control limit determined in section 15-946.
B. The
district support level for a school district is equal to the sum of the base
support level determined in section 15-943 and the transportation support
level determined in section 15-945.
C. The
general budget limit for each school district, for each fiscal year, is the sum
of the following:
1. The
maintenance and operations portion of the revenue control limit for the budget
year.
2. The
maintenance and operation portion of the following amounts:
(a) Amounts
that are fully funded by revenues other than a levy of taxes upon
on the taxable property within the school district, as
listed below:
(i) Amounts
budgeted as the budget balance carryforward as provided in section 15-943.01.
(ii) Tuition
revenues for attendance of nonresident pupils.
(iii) State
assistance as provided in section 15-976.
(iv) Special
education revenues as provided in section 15-825, subsection D and
section 15-1204.
(v) Title
VIII of the elementary and secondary education act of 1965 assistance
determined for children with disabilities, children with specific learning
disabilities, children residing on Indian lands and children residing within
the boundaries of an accommodation school that is located on a military
reservation and that is classified as a heavily impacted local educational
agency pursuant to 20 United States Code section 7703 as provided in section 15-905,
subsections K and O.
(vi) Title
VIII of the elementary and secondary education act of 1965 administrative costs
as provided in section 15-905, subsection P.
(vii) State
assistance for excess tuition as provided in section 15-825.01.
(viii) Transportation
revenues for attendance of nonresident pupils.
(b) Amounts
approved pursuant to an override election as provided in section 15-481
for the applicable fiscal year.
(c) Amounts
authorized by the county school superintendent pursuant to section 15-974,
subsection B.
(d) Expenditures
for complying with a court order of desegregation as provided in section 15-910.
(e) Expenditures
for the bond issues portion of the cost of tuition as provided in section 15-910.
(f) (e) Interest
on registered warrants or tax anticipation notes as provided in section 15-910.
(g) (f) Amounts
budgeted for a jointly owned and operated career and technical education and
vocational education center as provided in section 15-910.01.
3. The
maintenance and operations portion of district additional assistance for the
budget year.
4. Any
other budget item that is budgeted in the maintenance and operation section of
the budget and that is specifically exempt from the revenue control limit or
district additional assistance.
D. The
unrestricted capital budget limit, for each school district for each fiscal
year, is the sum of the following:
1. The
federal impact adjustment as determined in section 15-964 for the budget
year.
2. Any
other budget item that is budgeted in the capital outlay section of the budget
and that is specifically exempt from district additional assistance.
3. The
unrestricted capital portion of the amounts contained in subsection C of this
section.
4. The
unexpended budget balance in the unrestricted capital outlay fund from the
previous fiscal year.
5. The
net interest earned in the unrestricted capital outlay fund from
the previous fiscal year.END_STATUTE"
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Page 29,
between lines 5 and 6, insert:
"Sec. 8. Section
15-961, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE15-961. District
additional assistance; growth rate
A. District
additional assistance per student count is established as follows:
1. For
school districts with a student count of less than one hundred for kindergarten
programs and grades one through eight, five hundred forty-four
dollars fifty-eight cents $544.58. For
school districts with a student count of one hundred or more and less than six
hundred for kindergarten programs and grades one through eight, multiply three hundred eighty-nine dollars twenty-five cents $389.25 by the weight that corresponds to the student count for
kindergarten programs and grades one through eight for the school district as
provided in section 15-943, paragraph 1, subdivision (a), column
3. For a school district with a student count of six hundred or more
in kindergarten programs and grades one through eight, the limit is four hundred fifty dollars seventy-six cents $450.76.
2. For
school districts with a student count of less than one hundred for grades nine
through twelve, six hundred one dollars twenty-four cents $601.24. For school districts with a student count of one
hundred or more and less than six hundred for grades nine through twelve,
multiply four hundred five dollars fifty-nine cents $405.59 by the weight that corresponds to the student count for
grades nine through twelve for the school district as provided in section 15-943,
paragraph 1, subdivision (b), column 3. For a school district with a
student count of six hundred or more in grades nine through twelve, the limit
is four hundred ninety-two dollars ninety-four cents $492.94.
3. For
programs for preschool children with disabilities, four hundred
fifty dollars seventy-six cents $450.76.
B. District
additional assistance for a school district shall be computed as follows:
1. Select
the applicable district additional assistance per student count for the school
district.
2. Multiply
the amount or amounts selected in paragraph 1 of this subsection by the
appropriate student count of the school district.
3. If
a school district's student count used for the budget year is greater than one
hundred five percent of the student count used for the current year's budget,
increase the adjusted district additional assistance determined in paragraph 2
of this subsection by fifty percent of the actual
percentage increase in the school district's student count.
C. An
amount for the purchase of required textbooks and related printed subject
matter materials shall be used to increase the district additional assistance
for a school district as determined in subsection B, paragraph 2 or 3 of this
section, whichever is applicable. This amount shall equal the
student count in grades nine through twelve multiplied by sixty-nine dollars
sixty-eight cents $69.68.
D. Notwithstanding
subsections A, B and C of this section, district additional assistance for a
common school district that is not within a high school district or for a
transporting school district is district additional assistance as prescribed in
this section but excluding pupils who are admitted to another school district
as provided in section 15-824, subsection A, paragraph 2 or 3, except that if
the school district transports high school pupils, the district additional
assistance amount prescribed in this section shall be increased by an amount
equal to fifty percent of the district additional assistance per pupil amount
prescribed for the school district pursuant to this section multiplied by the
number of high school pupils transported.END_STATUTE"
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conform
Page 32,
between lines 19 and 20, insert:
"Sec. 10. Section
15-974, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE15-974. Equalization
assistance for education for accommodation schools
A. Equalization
assistance for education for accommodation schools shall be paid from
appropriations for that purpose to the school districts as provided in section
15-973.
B. When
an accommodation school has a positive total cash balance at the end of a
fiscal year in its maintenance and operation fund, the county school
superintendent of the county in which the accommodation school is located may
authorize an addition to the accommodation school's revenue control limit as
provided in section 15-947, subsection A for the following fiscal
year. The county school superintendent may not authorize an addition
that exceeds the lesser of the ending cash balance less minus the amount budgeted for the budget balance carryforward
as provided in section 15-943.01 or ten per cent percent of the revenue control limit of the accommodation
school and five per cent percent of
the revenue control limit pursuant to section 15-482, without the
necessity of an election pursuant to section 15-481. If an
accommodation school has a cash balance in excess of the amount needed to fund
the budget balance carryforward, and the
addition authorized pursuant to this subsection and the items
listed in section 15-947, subsection C, paragraph 2, subdivision (e)
for the following fiscal year, the remaining cash balance may be used for
capital expenditures.
C. Subsection
B of this section shall does not
apply to an accommodation school with a student count of one hundred twenty-five
or less in kindergarten programs and grades one through eight or to an
accommodation school which that offers
instruction in grades grade nine,
ten, eleven or twelve and which that has
a student count of one hundred or less in grades nine through twelve.END_STATUTE"
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