Bill Text: AZ HB2711 | 2014 | Fifty-first Legislature 2nd Regular | Chaptered
Bill Title: Higher education; budget reconciliation; 2014-2015.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-04-11 - Chapter 16 [HB2711 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2014-HB2711-Chaptered.html
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-first Legislature Second Regular Session 2014
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CHAPTER 16
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HOUSE BILL 2711 |
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AN ACT
amending Senate Bill 1488, section 22, fifty‑first legislature, second regular session, as transmitted to the governor; prescribing financial provisions for community college districts and universities; relating to budget reconciliation for education.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Senate Bill 1488, section 22, fifty‑first legislature, second regular session, as transmitted to the governor, is amended to read:
Sec. 22. District-sponsored charter schools; fiscal years 2013‑2014 and 2014-2015
Notwithstanding section 15‑183, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act, a school district governing board that granted a charter to a new charter school that began initial operations as a charter school after June 30, 2013 but before July 1, 2014 or that converted an existing district public school to a charter school that began initial operations as a charter school after June 30, 2013 but before July 1, 2014 may continue to sponsor and operate that charter school only through fiscal year 2014‑2015. In fiscal year 2014‑2015, the incremental funding for a new charter school that began initial operations as a charter school after June 30, 2013 but before July 1, 2014 or a charter school that was converted from an existing district public school to a charter school that began initial operations as a charter school after June 30, 2013 but before July 1, 2014 must be as prescribed in the school year 2013‑2014 school district charter school conversions line item and the related footnote contained in House Bill 2703, fifty‑first legislature, second regular session, relating to appropriations and budget reductions, limitations and transfers for the different departments of the state, for state institutions and for public schools for fiscal year 2014‑2015.
Sec. 2. Community college districts; state aid for science, technology, engineering and mathematics and workforce programs
Notwithstanding section 15‑1464, Arizona Revised Statutes, state aid for science, technology, engineering and mathematics and workforce programs for community college districts for fiscal year 2014‑2015 is as specified in the general appropriations act.
Sec. 3. Joint technical education district equalization funding; fiscal year 2014‑2015
Notwithstanding section 15-393, Arizona Revised Statutes, or any other law, the department of education shall fund state aid for joint technical education districts with a student count of more than two thousand students for fiscal year 2014‑2015 at ninety‑five and one‑half per cent of the amount that otherwise would be provided by law and shall reduce its budget limits accordingly.
Sec. 4. Financial aid trust fund; required state match
Notwithstanding section 15-1642, subsection C, Arizona Revised Statutes, for fiscal year 2014-2015, each dollar raised pursuant to the surcharge on student registration assessed pursuant to section 15-1642, subsection A, Arizona Revised Statues, may be matched by less than two dollars appropriated by the legislature.
Sec. 5. School district charter schools; adjustments
Notwithstanding any other law, for fiscal year 2015-2016, the department of education shall compute K‑12 equalization formula funding for students who in fiscal year 2014-2015 attended school district charter schools that converted to charter school status or that began operating as new schools under charter school status in fiscal year 2013-2014 as if those students had attended school district non-charter schools in fiscal year 2014-2015 and shall adjust student counts and budget limits for fiscal year 2015-2016 accordingly.
Sec. 6. School district charter schools; average daily membership cap
Notwithstanding any other law, beginning in fiscal year 2014-2015 the average daily membership of students in school district charter schools in a school district may not exceed by more than twenty per cent the average daily membership for all students who attended school district charter schools in the school district in fiscal year 2012-2013.
Sec. 7. Conditional enactment
Section 1 of this act does not become effective unless Senate Bill 1488, fifty‑first legislature, second regular session, relating to kindergarten through grade twelve budget reconciliation, and House Bill 2703, fifty‑first legislature, second regular session, relating to appropriations and budget reductions, limitations and transfers for the different departments of the state, for state institutions and for public schools for fiscal year 2014-2015, become law.
APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR APRIL 11, 2014.
FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE APRIL 11, 2014.
