Bill
Number: S.B. 1522
Yarbrough Floor Amendment
Reference to: printed bill
Amendment drafted by: Leg Council
FLOOR AMENDMENT EXPLANATION
Department of Public Safety
· Eliminates the canine reference relative to vehicles.
· Makes sexual assault dollars nonlapsing through FY 2019.
· Makes microwave IT dollars nonlapsing through 2019.
· Adds $500,000 from the Public Safety Equipment Fund for camera IT technology.
Auditor General
· Specifies CAWCD audit as a “special audit” and requires them to report by December 31, 2017.
School Facilities Board
· Clarifies that the new school construction monies include monies for land.
Secretary of State
· Corrects a $100 fund sourcing error.
Universities
· Earmarks $1 million of Arizona State University's and $1 million of the University of Arizona's funding from section 130 to their freedom schools.
· Adds a prohibition for General Fund monies for contracted lobbyists.
· Technical – changing “former” school to “existing” school.
Department of Education
· Eliminates the 500 student count cap to qualify for funding for rural schools.
· Adjusts the teacher pay raise from 1.0% to 1.06%; have non-state aid districts use local dollars to pay for their salary adjustment; have districts and charters rather than ADE compute the cost of their teachers’ salary adjustment, subject to audit.
· Adds $400,000 from the ESA Admin Fund for operating expenses, subject to JLBC review.
· Contains technical corrections for teacher salary increases.
Judiciary
· Appropriate $137,000 from the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Land Fund to offset an incorrect risk management charge.
· Appropriate an additional $87,200 to the Division Two Court of Appeals.
Revenue
· Update revenue estimate to conform to personal exemption change in HB 2528.
First Regular Session S.B. 1522
YARBROUGH FLOOR AMENDMENT
SENATE AMENDMENTS TO S.B. 1522
(Reference to printed bill)
Page 28, line 26, strike the first and second "one" insert "1.06"
Lines 31 and 40, strike "one" insert "1.06"
Line 45, after "system" insert "or other employee retirement systems"
Page 29, line 1, after the period insert "The employer share of employee‑related retirement system expenses for a teacher not participating in the Arizona state retirement system may not exceed expenses for a teacher participating in the Arizona state retirement system."; strike "one" insert "1.06"
Line 2, after "computed" insert "by the school district or charter school"
Line 3, after the period insert "The department shall add the amount computed for each school district and charter school pursuant to this paragraph to the base support level that otherwise would be computed for the school district or charter school for fiscal year 2017-2018 pursuant to section 15-943 or 15-943.02, Arizona Revised Statutes."
Line 8, after "and" strike remainder of line
Strike lines 9 and 10, insert "shall transmit a notice of public hearing to the department of education for posting on the department's website at least ten days before the hearing. If the school district or charter school maintains a website, the school district or charter school shall post on its website the notice of the public hearing."
Line 15, after the period insert "This attestation shall also pertain to the following information provided by the school district or charter school regarding teachers who taught at an Arizona school district or charter school during the 2016-2017 school year and who teach at the school district or charter school during the 2017-2018 school year: the number of teachers, the total amount of teacher salaries for the 2016-2017 school year, the total amount of teacher salaries for the 2017-2018 school year apart from this line item, the total of the employer share of related increases in employee‑related expenses for required contributions to employee retirement systems and the federal insurance contributions act and the total amount of funding needed to increase by 1.06 percent the salary of each teacher who teaches at the school district or charter school during the 2017‑2018 school year and who taught at an Arizona school district or charter school during the 2016‑2017 school year."
Page 29, strike lines 16 through 20, insert:
"A school district or charter school shall submit to the department of education the school district's or charter school's adopted budget. The department shall distribute funding for additional teacher salary increases for fiscal year 2017-2018 based on the adopted budget. This calculation is subject to the independent annual audit of the school district or charter school pursuant to section 15-914, Arizona Revised Statutes. Any audit findings regarding the miscalculation of this line item shall be reported to the department of education and are subject to a budget correction pursuant to section 15‑915, Arizona Revised Statutes."
Line 31, strike "one" insert "1.06"
Line 32, after the period insert "Appropriations for teacher salary increases in fiscal year 2018-2019 shall be distributed in the same manner as distributions for fiscal year 2017-2018."
Line 35, strike the first "the" insert "a"
Line 36, strike the second "the" insert "a"
Line 37, after "2016-2017" strike remainder of line
Line 38, strike "during the 2016-2017 school year"; strike "continues to teach" insert "teaches"; strike the second "the" insert "a"
Page 41, line 14, strike "4,335,000" insert "4,422,200"
Lines 15 and 17, strike "14,490,900" insert "14,578,100"
Page 51, between lines 25 and 26, insert:
"Camera IT infrastructure 500,000"
Page 51, line 26, strike "Canine"
Line 35, strike "281,135,300" insert "281,635,300"
Page 52, line 17, strike "3,393,700" insert "3,893,700"
Page 53, between lines 26 and 27, insert:
"The $1,200,000 appropriated for sexual assault kit testing in fiscal year 2017-2018 is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations through June 30, 2019."
Page 56, line 6, strike "construction" insert "facilities"; after "facilities" insert "and land costs"
Line 7, strike "to be constructed"
Line 14, strike "2,941,500" insert "2,941,100"
Page 61, line 12, after "funding" insert "or contracts with individuals or entities for lobbying services"
Line 26, strike "former" insert "existing"
Page 62, line 22, after "funding" insert "or contracts with individuals or entities for lobbying services"
Page 63, lines 7 and 34, after "funding" insert "or contracts with individuals or entities for lobbying services"
Page 64, line 44, after "funding" insert "or contracts with individuals or entities for lobbying services"
Page 73, between lines 25 and 26, insert:
"K. The $2,500,000 appropriated for an update of the microwave backbone statewide communication system at the department of public safety is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations through June 30, 2019."
Page 74, between lines 14 and 15, insert:
"Sec. 121. Department of education empowerment scholarship account fund; operating expenses; review; fiscal year 2017-2018
A. In addition to any other appropriations made in fiscal year 2017‑2018, the sum of $400,000 is appropriated from the department of education empowerment scholarship account fund established by section 15‑2402, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year 2017-2018 to the department of education for the department's costs in administering empowerment scholarship accounts.
B. Before spending the monies appropriated by this section, the department shall submit an expenditure report for review by the joint legislative budget committee."
Renumber to conform
Page 74, line 31, after "schools" strike remainder of line
Strike lines 32 through 34
Line 35, strike "year and"
Lines 39 and 40, strike "or its average daily membership count from the 2016‑2017 school year"
Page 76, line 17, strike "an" insert "a special"; after the period insert "The auditor general shall complete the special audit on or before December 31, 2017."
Between lines 31 and 32, insert:
"B. $1,000,000 of the amount appropriated to Arizona state university pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 1 of this section shall be used for operating expenditures of the school of civic and economic thought and leadership. This amount must supplement and not supplant any existing state funding or private or external donations to the school. The appropriated monies and all private and external donations to the school shall be used only for the direct operation of the school and may not be used for indirect costs of the university.
C. $1,000,000 of the amount appropriated to the university of Arizona pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 3 of this section shall be used for operating expenditures of the center for the philosophy of freedom. This amount must supplement and not supplant any existing state funding or private or external donations to the center. The appropriated monies and all private and external donations to the center shall be used only for the direct operation of the center and may not be used for indirect costs of the university."
Page 82, line 15, before "The" insert "A."
Line 23, strike "(276,700)" insert "(198,100)"
Between lines 23 and 24, insert:
"7. Court of appeals $(27,800)
8. Superior court $(50,800)"
Renumber to conform
Between lines 26 and 27, insert:
"B. The sum of $137,000 in onetime funding is appropriated from the legislative, executive and judicial public buildings land fund established by section 37-525, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year 2017-2018 to the supreme court for adjustments to risk management premiums. It is the intent of the legislature to find a different fund source for this allocation on an ongoing basis in the fiscal year 2018-2019 budget."
Page 84, line 45, strike "9,859,200,000" insert "9,855,300,000"
Page 85, line 2, strike "10,078,300,000" insert "10,066,700,000"
Line 6, strike "10,542,200,000" insert "10,523,000,000"
Amend title to conform