Bill
Number: S.B. 1521
Yarbrough
Floor Amendment
Reference
to: printed bill
Amendment
drafted by: Leg Council
FLOOR
AMENDMENT EXPLANATION
1. Removes
charter schools from the new procurement requirements adopted by the State
Board of Education.
2.
Defines
gift or benefit in regards to the gift ban for individuals
involved in school procurement.
3.
Modifies
the Computer Science Professional Development Program by:
a)
limiting
eligibility to high schools that do not currently provide computer science
instruction;
b)
specifying
grants are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis and prohibits the
Arizona Department of Education (ADE) from distributing grants in an amount
more than 50 percent of the total state appropriation for this purpose, unless
matching monies are received from private sources;
c)
including
the value of training provided by a private entity at no cost to the state or
public school as matching monies in any fiscal year in which this training is
provided; and
d)
reducing
the amount, from 5 percent to 2 percent, that ADE can use for administrative
purposes from the Computer Science Professional Development Fund.
4.
Specifies
that School Facilities Board staff rather than the School Facilities Board
(SFB), must approve or reject a change order within two business days.
5.
Delays
the effective date of the requirement that school district procurement rules
require contracts to be awarded based on the lowest qualified bidder to July 1,
2019.
6.
Specifies
that noncritical projects do not receive priority in the next fiscal year,
rather than requiring that the award be canceled and allowing the school
district to submit a new project in the next fiscal year.
7.
Changes
the date, from March 1 to December 1, by which SFB must approve or revise its
enrollment projection for a school district to qualify for monies from the New
School Facilities Fund for additional square footage.
8.
Removes
the $100,000 for the School Emergency Readiness Pilot Program.
9.
Changes,
for the appropriation to Benson School, the fiscal year by which SFB must
approve additional square footage and land acquisition from FY 2016 to FY 2015.
10.
Specifies
that in FY 2023 and each year thereafter, the reduction in charter additional assistance
is $0.00.
11.
Requires
charter school budgets to contain the average salary of all teachers employed
by the school for the current and previous year and the dollar and percentage
increase of the average teacher salary of the current year.
Page 17,
line 9, strike "portion of the"; strike "that contains" insert "shall contain"
Line 10,
after "information" strike remainder of line
Line 11,
strike "school and shall prominently display the following"
Line 20,
strike "A" insert "each";
strike "also"
Page 19,
line 16, strike "and charter schools"
Lines 18 and
19, strike "and require contracts to be awarded based on
the lowest qualified bidder"
Lines 42 and
43, strike "and nonexempt charter schools"
Page 20,
line 1, strike "or charter school"
Page 21,
lines 17 and 18, strike ", nonexempt charter school"
Line 19,
strike ", nonexempt charter school"
Page 22,
line 1, strike "or charter"
Lines 2 and
3, strike "or charter"
Page 23,
line 26, strike ", nonexempt charter school"
Lines 31 and
32, strike ", nonexempt charter school"
Line 39,
strike ", nonexempt charter school"
Page 24, line
1, strike ", nonexempt charter school"
Line 10,
strike ", charter schools"
Between
lines 18 and 19, insert:
"1. "Gift or benefit" means a payment,
distribution, expenditure, advance, deposit or donation of monies, any
intangible personal property or any kind of tangible personal or real
property. Gift or benefit does not INCLUDE either:
(a) Food
or beverage.
(b) Expenses
or sponsorships relating to a special event or function to which individuals
listed in subsection N of this section are invited."
Page 24, between
lines 26 and 27, insert:
"Sec. 5. Title
15, chapter 2, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding
section 15-213.04, to read:
START_STATUTE15-213.04. Procurement
practices; rules; lowest qualified bidder
The
state board of education shall adopt rules for the procurement by school
districts of any materials, services, goods, construction and construction
services that require contracts to be awarded based on the lowest qualified
bidder." END_STATUTE
Renumber to
conform
Page 26,
line 10, after "science" insert "professional development"
Line 12,
after "science" insert "professional
development"
Line 22,
after "grants" insert "on a
first‑come, first‑served basis"
Line 23,
after "science" insert "professional
development"; after "schools" insert
"that do not currently provide high school computer science
instruction"
Line 27,
after "schools" insert "that
offer instruction in grades nine through twelve"
Line 35,
strike "from" insert "in an
amount that is more than fifty percent of the total state general fund
appropriation to"
Line 36,
after "science" insert "professional
development"
Line 37,
strike "and deposited in the fund"; after the
period insert "The value of training provided by a private
entity at no cost to this state or any other public school in this state shall
count as matching monies in any fiscal year in which this training is provided."
Line 38,
strike "five" insert "two"
Line 41,
after "science" insert "professional
development"
Page 53,
line 27, after "board" insert "staff"
Page 56,
line 29, after "project" strike remainder of
line
Page 56, line
30, strike "review within the time frame established by the
school district"
Page 67,
line 4, after the comma strike remainder of line
Strike line
5, insert "the noncritical project does not receive
priority in the next"
Page 71, line 11, strike "March" insert
"December"
Page 78, strike lines 22 through 45
Page 79, strike lines 1 through 20
Renumber to
conform
Page 80, line 7, strike "2015‑2016"
insert "2014‑2015"
Line 33,
strike "2021‑2022" insert "2022‑2023"
Page 81, line 16, after "reductions"
strike remainder of line
Strike line
17
Line 18,
strike "2021‑2022" insert "2022‑2023"
Between
lines 31 and 32, insert:
"5. For
fiscal year 2022‑2023 and each fiscal year thereafter, $0.00."
Line 35,
strike "2018‑2018" insert "2017‑2018"
Page 82,
after line 40, insert:
"Sec. 32. Effective date
Section 15‑213.04,
Arizona Revised Statutes, as added by this act, is effective from and after
June 30, 2019."
Amend title to conform