Bill
Number: S.B. 1538
Biggs
Floor Amendment
Reference
to: printed bill
Amendment
drafted by: Leg Council
FLOOR
AMENDMENT EXPLANATION
1.
Modifies
the small school weight for multisite charter schools by reducing the funding
weight 33% in FY 2017 rather than 67% and removes the FY 2018 modifications.
2.
Eliminates
modifications to the School Facilities Board’s calculation of excludable space.
3.
Allows
a school district, if legislative appropriations are not available to the
district in the fiscal year following approval by the School Facilities Board,
to use available monies to pay for new facilities projects and to reimburse the
fund from which monies were used when legislative appropriations are made
available.
4.
Eliminates
the increased per pupil allocation from the Classroom Site Fund.
5.
States
it is the Legislature’s intent to fund District Sponsored Charter Schools in FY
2017 at approximately the same amount as FY 2016.
6.
Removes
the pilot designation for the College Credit by Examination Incentive Program
and sunsets it in 10 years.
7.
Removes
the creation of the teacher certification subaccounts
Page 18, line 38, strike "year" insert "years"
Line 39, after "2015‑2016" insert "and 2016‑2017"
Strike lines 42 through 45
Page 19, strike lines 1 through 32
Page 26, strike lines 21 through 36, insert:
"Sec. 9. Title 15, chapter 2, article 2,
Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 15-249.06, to read:
START_STATUTE15-249.06. College credit by examination incentive program; incentive
bonuses; report; program termination
A. The
college credit by examination incentive program is established within the
department of education to provide an incentive bonus to teachers, school
districts and charter schools for students who obtain a passing score on a
qualifying examination for college credit while in high school.
B. The
Arizona board of regents shall maintain a list of qualifying examinations that
a high school student may take in order to receive college credit in
mathematics, English language arts or science from any university under the
jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents and the passing scores required on
those examinations in order to receive college credit. On or before September
1 of each year, the Arizona board of regents shall provide the list of
qualifying examinations and passing scores to the department of education and
shall submit this list to the joint legislative budget committee for review.
C. Beginning
in fiscal year 2017-2018, the department of education shall pay an incentive
bonus to school districts and charter schools for each student in grades nine
through twelve who receives a passing score during the previous fiscal year on
a qualifying examination identified by the Arizona board of regents pursuant to
subsection B of this section. A student who receives a passing score on a qualifying
examination and who is enrolled in a school where fifty percent or more of the
students are eligible for free or reduced price lunches shall generate for the
school district or charter school a bonus of four hundred fifty dollars per
passing score on a qualifying examination. A student who receives a
passing score on a qualifying examination and who is enrolled in a school where
less than fifty percent of the students are eligible for free or reduced price
lunches shall generate for the school district or charter school a bonus of
three hundred dollars per passing score on a qualifying examination. If the
statewide sum of per student bonuses awarded pursuant to this subsection
exceeds the amount of available monies appropriated for incentive bonuses, the
bonus monies shall be reduced proportionally to cover all eligible bonus
awards.
D. A school
district or charter school that receives an incentive bonus pursuant to this
section shall distribute at least fifty percent of the bonus monies to the associated
classroom teacher for each student who passes a qualifying examination. Bonus
monies awarded to a teacher pursuant to this subsection shall be in addition to
any regular wage, compensation or other bonus the teacher receives or is
scheduled to receive. The remainder of any bonus monies received by a
school district or charter school shall be used for teacher professional
development or student instructional support or materials. Any bonus
monies received by a school district or charter school pursuant to this
subsection shall be separately accounted for in the school district's or
charter school's annual financial report.
E. Incentive
bonuses distributed to and any bonus monies received by a school district or
charter school pursuant to this section are not subject to collective
bargaining.
F. On or
before December 15, 2018 and on or before December 15 of each year thereafter,
the department of education shall submit to the president of the senate, the
speaker of the house of representatives, the governor and the secretary of
state a report on all of the following:
1. The
number of students who took a qualifying examination at each school.
2. The
number of students who received a passing score on a qualifying examination and
the number of incentive bonus awards distributed.
3. The
number and types of qualifying examinations taken by students.
G. Incentive
bonuses distributed to and any bonus monies received by a teacher are not
compensation as defined in section 38‑711.
H. The
program established by this section ends on July 1, 2026 pursuant to section 41‑3102."
END_STATUTE
Renumber to conform
Page 82, strike lines 16
through 31, insert:
"(b) The excess
square footage of new school facilities does not exceed twenty‑five
percent of the minimum square footage requirements pursuant to subsection C of
this section.
(c) The excess square footage of expansions to
school facilities does not exceed twenty‑five percent of the minimum
square footage requirements pursuant to subsection C of this section."
Page 87, line 35, strike "funds" insert
"MONIES"
Page 96, strike lines 20 through 44
Strike page 97
Page 98, strike lines 1
through 3, insert:
"Sec. 42. District-sponsored charter schools; intent
It is the intent of the
legislature that school districts that operated district-sponsored charter
schools in fiscal year 2015-2016 receive approximately the same amount of
incremental monies in fiscal year 2016-2017 for former district-sponsored
charter school pupils that those school districts received in fiscal year
2015-2016 for district-sponsored charter school pupils. For the purposes of
this section, "incremental monies" means the additional funding that
a district-sponsored charter school receives per pupil from the state
equalization funding formula above what it receives per pupil under that
formula for each district noncharter school pupil.
Sec. 43. New school facilities funding; fiscal years 2016‑2017
and 2017‑2018
A. Notwithstanding any other law, if the school
facilities board approves a school district for new school facilities funding
and the full legislative appropriation for the project is not available to the
school district in the fiscal year following the approval by the school
facilities board, the school district may use any legally available monies to
pay for the project approved by the school facilities board and may reimburse
the fund from which the monies were used in subsequent years with the remaining
legislative appropriations when made available by this state.
B. Subsection A of this section applies only to
monies appropriated to the school facilities board for new school facilities
during fiscal years 2016-2017 and 2017-2018."
Renumber to conform
Page 98, strike lines 7 through 9
Reletter to conform
Amend title to conform