REFERENCE TITLE: common school district unification budget

State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-fourth Legislature First Regular Session 2019

HB 2705

Introduced by Representatives Osborne: Dunn, Toma, Senator Kerr

 

AN ACT

 

amending Laws 2007, chapter 283, section 6, as amended by laws 2010, chapter 332, section 28 and Laws 2016, chapter 220, section 1; relating to school finance.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Laws 2007, chapter 283, section 6, as amended by Laws 2010, chapter 332, section 28 and Laws 2016, chapter 220, section 1, is amended to read:

Sec. 6.  Unification; former common school districts

A.  A common school district that is not within the boundaries of a high school district and that was authorized by the qualified electors to establish a unified school district with boundaries coterminous with the boundaries of the common school district in an election held before July 2, 2007 may continue calculating its budget and equalization assistance pursuant to section 15-951, Arizona Revised Statutes, until a high school is constructed for the newly formed unified school district, or until June 30, 2020 2024, whichever occurs first.

B.  A newly formed unified school district that meets the requirements of subsection A of this section and that phases in instruction for pupils in grades nine through twelve may continue calculating its budget and equalization assistance pursuant to section 15‑951, Arizona Revised Statutes, for a maximum of three years after the first year of the operation of the new high school in the newly formed unified school district.

C.  Notwithstanding this section or any other law, a school district shall not retroactively adjust its budget for any fiscal year pursuant to this section.