REFERENCE TITLE: small school adjustments; district eligibility

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

2025

SB 1526

Introduced by

Senator Dunn

An Act

providing for small school adjustments.

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

Section 1. Small school adjustments; eligibility; fiscal year 2025-2026; delayed repeal

A. Notwithstanding section 15-949, subsection A, Arizona Revised Statutes, a common school district is eligible for the small school adjustments pursuant to section 15-949, Arizona Revised Statutes, when determining the school district's budget in fiscal year 2025-2026 if the school district meets all of the following:

1. Is located in a county with a population of more than two hundred thousand persons but less than two hundred ten thousand persons.

2. Has a student count in kindergarten programs and grades one through eight of more than one hundred twenty-five students but less than one hundred fifty students.

3. Has an average daily membership in the current year in kindergarten programs and grades one through eight of one hundred twenty-five or less.

B. This section is repealed from and after December 31, 2026.