Page 1, line
13, strike "for up to three fiscal years" insert
"for up to three fiscal years"
Line 14,
after the period insert "A school district or charter
school that receives approval for a three‑year program under this
subsection may annually submit a modified spending plan for its approved
program."
Page 4, between
lines 5 and 6, insert:
"5. "School resource officer" means a peace
officer or a full‑authority reserve peace officer who is certified by the
Arizona peace officer standards and training board."
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Page 14,
line 25, strike "conform" insert "align"
Line 45,
after "who" insert "meets
both of the following conditions"
Page 15,
lines 6 and 7, strike "in the current school year"
insert "or that was included on the list at the time the
student began the program"
Line 28,
strike "student's" insert "students'"
Line 30,
strike "or" insert a comma; after "expanding" insert "or improving"
Line 35,
after "exploration" insert "in any school grade"
Page 16,
line 17, strike "by" insert "to"
Page 26,
between lines 7 and 8, insert:
"Sec.
8. Section 15-901.07, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE15-901.07. Concurrent
coursework; calculation of average daily membership; definition
A. A
school district or a charter school may include students enrolled in concurrent
coursework for the purposes of calculating average daily membership if the
school district has received approval from the state board of education or the
charter school has received approval from its sponsor to offer concurrent
coursework and all of the following apply:
1. A
student earns at least three semester hours of credit per semester in the
community college or university course.
2. A
student is awarded academic credit by the school district or charter school for
the concurrent coursework pursuant to section 15‑701.01.
3. The
concurrent coursework is at a higher level than the course taught at the school
district or charter school in grades nine through twelve.
4. A
student who is enrolled in concurrent coursework also attends at least one
course offered at the school district or charter school per semester.
5. The
concurrent coursework is applicable to an established community college
academic degree or certificate program that is transferable to a university
under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents. Concurrent coursework
that is applicable to a community college occupational degree or certificate
program may be transferable to a university under the jurisdiction of the
Arizona board of regents.
6. The
school district or charter school pays the community college or university for
the tuition cost of the concurrent coursework or reimburses the student for the
tuition cost of the concurrent coursework.
B. A
course at a community college or university of three semester hours of credit
or more is considered a subject for the purposes of meeting the definition of
full‑time student prescribed in section 15‑901. A course
at a community college or university of three semester hours of credit or more
is not required to meet one hundred twenty‑three hours a year, or the
equivalent, to be considered a subject.
C. Instructional
hours provided by a community college or university to a student in concurrent
coursework shall be included in the calculation of the average daily membership
for that student pursuant to section 15‑901.
D. Notwithstanding
the subject requirements prescribed in section 15‑901, the hours in which
a student who is enrolled in concurrent coursework attends a high school shall
be included in the calculation of the average daily membership for that
student.
E. D. Average
daily membership for classes at a community college or
university shall be based on the community college or
university credits earned by combined hours that
the student. is enrolled in at the school
district or charter school and at the community college or university. Average
daily membership shall be calculated by dividing the combined hours by seven
hundred twenty, except that if a student in grade nine through twelve participates
in Arizona online instruction, average daily membership shall be calculated by
dividing the combined hours by nine hundred For each
community college or university course for which three credits are earned,
one-eighth of an average daily membership shall be generated. Except
as otherwise provided by law, for a full‑time high school student who
attends concurrent enrollment courses pursuant to this section, the average
daily membership may not exceed 1.0.
F. E. For
the purposes of this section, "concurrent coursework" means courses
at a community college under the jurisdiction of a community college district
in this state or at a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of
regents in the required or elective subjects that satisfy high school
graduation requirements pursuant to section 15‑701.01.END_STATUTE"
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Page 35,
between lines 14 and 15, insert:
"Sec. 13. Section
15-1323, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE15-1323. Board
of directors; fund; powers and duties
A. The
board may bring actions and proceedings necessary to protect the interests of
the schools. Such proceedings shall be instituted in the name of the
Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind.
B. The
board shall be trustee of all donations of lands, monies or other things of
value for the benefit of the schools. Notwithstanding title 35,
chapters 1 and 2, the board may invest monies donated to the school through a
contract with an investment specialist. The superintendent of the
schools shall annually report to the board on the use of monies received as
donations or income from donations.
C. The
board shall maintain an enterprise fund in which shall be retained fees,
rentals and other charges received for the use of school facilities for
nonschool events. Monies in the enterprise fund may be
used only to pay costs associated with operating facilities for the purpose for
which the monies were received.
D. The
board shall:
1. Provide
from the funds appropriated for the schools all the necessary staff, services,
supplies and equipment.
2. Prescribe
the system of records and accounts for the schools.
3. Cause
to be kept a record of all important papers.
4. Cause
to be kept a set of books and accounts which that show every transaction made, every appropriation by the
legislature for the schools, the purchase, storage and consumption of supplies
for subsistence, construction and other purposes, receipts from all sources and
all expenditures made.
E. Books
and records of the schools shall be open to public inspection, unless otherwise
restricted by law. END_STATUTE
Sec. 14. Section
15-2011, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE15-2011. Minimum
school facility adequacy requirements; definition
A. The
school facilities board, as determined and prescribed in this chapter, shall
provide funding to school districts for new construction as the number of
pupils in the district fills the existing school facilities and requires more
pupil space.
B. School
buildings in a school district are adequate if all of the following
requirements are met:
1. The
buildings contain sufficient and appropriate space and equipment that comply
with the minimum school facility adequacy guidelines established pursuant to
subsection F of this section. The state shall not fund facilities for elective
courses that require the school district facilities to exceed minimum school
facility adequacy requirements. The school facilities board shall
determine whether a school building meets the requirements of this paragraph by
analyzing the total square footage that is available for each pupil in
conjunction with the need for specialized spaces and equipment.
2. The
buildings are in compliance with federal, state and local building and fire
codes and laws that are applicable to the particular building, except that a
school with an aggregate area of less than five thousand square feet is subject
to permitting and inspection by a local fire marshal and is only subject to
regulation or inspection by the office of the state fire marshal if the county,
city or town in which the school is located does not employ a local fire
marshal. An existing school building is not required to comply with
current requirements for new buildings unless this compliance is specifically
mandated by law or by the building or fire code of the jurisdiction where the
building is located.
3. The
building systems, including roofs, plumbing, telephone systems, electrical
systems, heating systems and cooling systems, are in working order and are
capable of being properly maintained.
4. The
buildings are structurally sound.
C. The
standards that shall be used by the school facilities board to determine
whether a school building meets the minimum adequate gross square footage
requirements are as follows:
1. For
a school district that provides instruction to pupils in programs for preschool
children with disabilities, kindergarten programs and grades one through six,
eighty square feet per pupil in programs for preschool children with
disabilities, kindergarten programs and grades one through six.
2. For
a school district that provides instruction to up to eight hundred pupils in
grades seven and eight, eighty‑four square feet per pupil in grades seven
and eight.
3. For
a school district that provides instruction to more than eight hundred pupils
in grades seven and eight, eighty square feet per pupil in grades seven and
eight or sixty‑seven thousand two hundred square feet, whichever is more.
4. For
a school district that provides instruction to up to four hundred pupils in
grades nine through twelve, one hundred twenty‑five square feet per pupil
in grades nine through twelve.
5. For
a school district that provides instruction to more than four hundred and up to
one thousand pupils in grades nine through twelve, one hundred twenty square
feet per pupil in grades nine through twelve or fifty thousand square feet,
whichever is more.
6. For
a school district that provides instruction to more than one thousand and up to
one thousand eight hundred pupils in grades nine through twelve, one hundred
twelve square feet per pupil in grades nine through twelve or one hundred
twenty thousand square feet, whichever is more.
7. For
a school district that provides instruction to more than one thousand eight
hundred pupils in grades nine through twelve, ninety‑four square feet per
pupil in grades nine through twelve or two hundred one thousand six hundred
square feet, whichever is more.
D. The
school facilities board may modify the square footage requirements prescribed
in subsection C of this section or modify the amount of monies awarded to cure
the square footage deficiency pursuant to this section for particular school
districts based on extraordinary circumstances for any of the following
considerations:
1. The
number of pupils served by the school district.
2. Geographic
factors.
3. Grade
configurations other than those prescribed in subsection C of this section.
E. In
measuring the square footage per pupil requirements of subsection C of this
section, the school facilities board shall:
1. Use
the most recent fortieth day projected one
hundredth day average daily membership for the current
school year.
2. For
each school, use the lesser of either:
(a) Total
gross square footage.
(b) Student
capacity multiplied by the appropriate square footage per pupil prescribed by
subsection C of this section.
3. Consider
the total space available in all schools in use in the school district, except
that the school facilities board shall allow an exclusion of the square footage
for certain schools and the pupils within the schools' boundaries if the school
district demonstrates to the board's satisfaction unusual or excessive busing
of pupils or unusual attendance boundary changes between schools.
4. Compute
the gross square footage of all buildings by measuring from exterior wall to
exterior wall. Square footage used solely for district
administration, storage of vehicles and other nonacademic purposes shall be
excluded from the net square footage.
5. Include
all portable and modular buildings.
6. Include
in the net square footage new construction funded wholly or partially by the
school facilities board based on the square footage funded by the school
facilities board. If the new construction is to exceed the square
footage funded by the school facilities board, the excess square footage shall
not be included in the net square footage if any of the following applies:
(a) The
excess square footage was constructed before July 1, 2002 or funded by a class
B bond, impact aid revenue bond or capital outlay override approved by the
voters after August 1, 1998 and before June 30, 2002 or funded from
unrestricted capital outlay expended before June 30, 2002.
(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.
7. Exclude
square footage built under a developer agreement according to section 15‑342,
paragraph 33 until the school facilities board provides funding for the square
footage under section 15‑2041, subsection O.
8. Include
square footage that a school district has leased to another entity.
F. The
school facilities board shall adopt rules establishing minimum school facility
adequacy guidelines. The guidelines shall provide the minimum
quality and quantity of school buildings and facilities and equipment necessary
and appropriate to enable pupils to achieve the academic standards pursuant to
section 15‑203, subsection A, paragraphs 12 and 13 and sections 15‑701
and 15‑701.01. At a minimum, the school facilities board shall
address all of the following in developing these guidelines:
1. School
sites.
2. Classrooms.
3. Libraries
and media centers, or both.
4. Cafeterias.
5. Auditoriums,
multipurpose rooms or other multiuse space.
6. Technology.
7. Transportation.
8. Facilities
for science, arts and physical education.
9. Other
facilities and equipment that are necessary and appropriate to achieve the
academic standards prescribed pursuant to section 15‑203, subsection A,
paragraphs 12 and 13 and sections 15‑701 and 15‑701.01.
10. Appropriate
combinations of facilities or uses listed in this section.
G. The
board shall consider the facilities and equipment of the schools with the
highest academic productivity scores, as prescribed in section 15‑2002,
subsection A, paragraph 9, subdivision (d), and the highest parent quality
ratings in the establishment of the guidelines.
H. The
school facilities board may consider appropriate combinations of facilities or
uses in making assessments of and curing existing deficiencies pursuant to
section 15‑2002, subsection A, paragraph 1 and in certifying plans for
new school facilities pursuant to section 15‑2002, subsection A,
paragraph 5.
I. If
the school facilities board makes any changes to the minimum adequacy
requirements prescribed in this section, the board shall provide a fiscal
impact statement of the effect of the proposed changes to the joint committee
on capital review for review.
J. For
the purposes of this section, "student capacity" means the capacity
adjusted to include any additions to or deletions of space, including modular
or portable buildings at the school. The school facilities board
shall determine the student capacity for each school in conjunction with each
school district, recognizing each school's allocation of space as of July 1,
1998, to achieve the academic standards prescribed pursuant to section 15‑203,
subsection A, paragraphs 12 and 13 and sections 15‑701 and 15‑701.01."
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Page 35,
line 32, after "committee" insert "and the director of the governor's office of strategic planning and
budgeting"
Page 37,
lines 31 and 32, strike "most recent fortieth day"
Page 38,
line 1, strike "most recent fortieth day"
Line 2,
strike "indicates" insert "projections indicate"
Line 9,
strike "most recent fortieth day"
Line 10,
strike "indicates" insert "projections indicate"
Page 44,
between lines 2 and 3, insert:
"Sec. 17. Title
15, chapter 19, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding
section 15-2405, to read:
START_STATUTE15-2405. Department
of education; third-party administrator
The
department of education shall contract with a third‑party administrator
to assist the department in the financial administration of Arizona empowerment
scholarship accounts." END_STATUTE
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Page 46,
line 36, strike "3.7908" insert "$3.7908"
Page 52,
line 3, strike "$1,766,300" insert "$300,000"
Page 52,
strike lines 20 through 44
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pages 53 and 54
Page 55,
strike lines 1 and 2
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Page 56,
strike lines 20 through 23, insert:
"4. Each
alternative high school shall receive $400 per student count from the fund if
in the results achieved during testing conducted in the spring of 2018 the
school performed in the top twenty‑seven percent of schools identified
pursuant to paragraph 3, subdivision (a) of this section, as demonstrated by
the average percentage of those pupils who obtained a passing score on the
mathematics portions of the statewide assessment and the average percentage of
pupils who obtained a passing score on the language arts portions of the
statewide assessment. An alternative high school is eligible for
funding under this paragraph only if it reports the average percentage of
pupils who obtained a passing score on both the mathematics portions of the
statewide assessment and the language arts portions of the statewide assessment
during testing conducted in the spring of 2018.
Sec. 26. Retroactivity
Section 15‑249.06,
Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act, applies retroactively to from
and after June 30, 2018."
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Number: S.B. 1551