ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session
	Senate: ED DP 4-3-0-0 | 3rd Read 17-11-2-0 House: ED DP 7-5-0-0

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SB 1472: school district budgets; three years

Sponsor: Senator Farnsworth, LD 10

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Overview

Requires a school district governing board (governing board) to prepare a budget for the next three fiscal years. Adds student enrollment projections to the school district budget format.

History

The Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) and Auditor General (OAG) must prescribe a budget format that allows school districts to plan and detail the use of available monies. The budget format must contain distinct sections for maintenance and operations, debt service, special projects, capital outlay, adjacent ways and the Classroom Site Fund. Statute further details what must be included in each of these budget sections (A.R.S. § 15-903) (OAG).

A governing board must prepare and provide the SPI, county school superintendent and the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) a proposed budget and summary of the proposed budget in an electronic format for the budget year, which is the next fiscal year. The proposed budget must include: 1) the total amount of revenues from all sources necessary to meet the school district's current fiscal year budget; and 2) the total amount of revenues by source necessary to meet the proposed budget, excluding property taxes. The OAG and ADE must prescribe the form for the summary of the proposed budget  (A.R.S. §§ 15-901 and 15-905).

Provisions

1. Requires a governing board to prepare a proposed budget for the next three fiscal years, rather than for the next fiscal year. (Sec. 5)

2. Redefines budget year, for the purposes of school district budgeting, to mean a fiscal year that is a fiscal year for which the school district is budgeting and one of the next three fiscal years that immediately follow the current year. (Sec. 3)

3. Adds that a school district's budget format must include:

a) enrollment projections for each of the next three years;

b) a description of the methods used to make the enrollment projections; and

c) the rate of change in student enrollment between the current year and the fifth year immediately preceding the current year. (Sec. 4)

4. Instructs the OAG to include, in the form of the summary of the proposed budget, the rate of change in student enrollment and the enrollment projections for each of the next three years. (Sec. 5)

5. Makes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6)

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