REFERENCE TITLE: additional assistance; restoration

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-fourth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2020

 

 

SB 1234

 

Introduced by

Senator Allen S

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending Laws 2018, chapter 285, section 27, as amended by Laws 2019, chapter 265, section 20; amending Laws 2018, chapter 285, section 28, as amended by Laws 2019, chapter 265, section 21; relating to school additional assistance.

 

 

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

Section 1.  Laws 2018, chapter 285, section 27, as amended by Laws 2019, chapter 265, section 20, is amended to read:

Sec. 27. District additional assistance for school districts; reductions; exemption; classroom spending

A.  For fiscal years 2018-2019 through 2022-2023 and 2019-2020, the department of education shall reduce by the amounts specified in paragraphs 1 through 4 and 2 of this subsection the amount of basic state aid that otherwise would be apportioned to school districts statewide for district additional assistance prescribed in section 15-961, Arizona Revised Statutes, and shall reduce school district budget limits accordingly.  The amount of reduction is:

1.  For fiscal year 2018-2019, $257,469,900.

2.  For fiscal year 2019-2020, $128,734,900.

3.  For fiscal year 2020-2021, $128,734,900.

4.  For fiscal year 2021-2022, $64,367,400.

5.  3.  For fiscal year 2022‑2023 2020-2021 and each fiscal year thereafter, $0.00.

B.  For fiscal years 2018-2019 through 2021-2022 and 2019-2020, the department of education shall reduce district additional assistance for a school district that is not eligible to receive basic state aid funding by the amount that the school district's district additional assistance would be reduced pursuant to subsection A of this section if the school district were eligible to receive basic state aid funding and shall reduce the school district's budget limits accordingly.

C.  School districts with a student count of fewer than one thousand one hundred pupils are exempt from subsections A and B of this section.

D.  It is the intent of the governor and the legislature that school districts increase the total percentage of classroom spending over the previous year's percentages in the combined categories of instruction, student support and instructional support as prescribed by the auditor general.

Sec. 2.  Laws 2018, chapter 285, section 28, as amended by Laws 2019, chapter 265, section 21, is amended to read:

Sec. 28.  Additional assistance funding for charter schools; reductions

For fiscal years 2018-2019 through 2022-2023 and 2019-2020, the department of education shall reduce by the amounts specified in paragraphs 1 through 4 and 2 of this section the amount of charter additional assistance funding that otherwise would be apportioned to charter schools statewide pursuant to section 15‑185, subsection B, paragraph 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act.  The funding reduction required for a fiscal year under this section shall be made on a proportional basis based on the charter additional assistance funding that each charter school in this state would have received for the fiscal year without the prescribed reduction.  The amount of reduction is:

1.  For fiscal year 2018-2019, $13,628,800.

2.  For fiscal year 2019-2020, $6,814,400.

3.  For fiscal year 2020-2021, $6,814,400.

4.  For fiscal year 2021-2022, $3,407,200.

5.  3.  For fiscal year 2022‑2023 2020-2021 and each fiscal year thereafter, $0.00.