SB 1599 — school districts; teacher salaries; posting

Fifty-sixthSenate LegislatureEngrossed Educationschool Firstdistricts; Regular Session S.B.

1599teacher PROPOSEDsalaries; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AMENDMENTS TO S.B.

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15-189.05.1599 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

CharterSection school1. budgets;

postingSection of15-903, teacherArizona salaryRevised information;Statutes, is amended to read:

15-903.

Budget format;

prohibited expenditures;

The budgetsuperintendent forof eachpublic charterinstruction schoolin shallconjunction containwith the followingauditor information:general shall prepare and prescribe a budget format to be utilized USED by all school districts.

B.

The budget format shall be designed to allow all school districts to plan and provide in detail for the use of USING available funds MONIES.

The budget format shall contain distinct sections for, but need not be limited to, maintenance and operation, debt service, special projects, capital outlay, adjacent ways and classroom site fund.

The maintenance and operation section shall include, but need not be limited to, separate subsections for regular education programs, special education programs and operational expenditures for pupil transportation.

Each subsection shall clearly distinguish classroom instruction expenditures.

The special education program subsection shall include a subtotal for the disability classifications as defined in section 15-761 and programs for gifted, vocational and technical education, remedial education and bilingual students.

The total expenditures for each of these programs shall be included on the budget form.

The pupil transportation subsection shall include all operational expenditures relating to the transportation of TRANSPORTING pupils, including all operational expenditures within a contract if the school district contracts for pupil transportation.

C.

The capital outlay section of the budget shall include a subsection for unrestricted capital outlay.

The unrestricted capital outlay subsection shall include budgeted expenditures for acquisitions by purchase, lease-purchase or lease of capital items as defined in the uniform system of financial records and shall include:

TheLand, averagebuildings salaryand ofimprovements allto teachersland employedand bybuildings, theincluding charterlabor schooland forrelated theemployee currentbenefits year.costs and material costs if work is performed by school district employees.

TheFurniture, averagefurnishings, salaryathletic ofequipment alland teachersother employedequipment, byincluding thecomputer chartersoftware. school for the previous year.

ThePupil dollarand increasenonpupil intransportation thevehicles averageand salaryequipment, ofincluding all teacherscapital employedexpenditures bywithin thea chartercontract if the school fordistrict thecontracts currentfor year.pupil transportation.

TheTextbooks percentageand increaserelated inprinted thesubject averagematter salarymaterials ofadopted all teachers employed by the chartergoverning schoolboard. for the current year.

B.5.

EachInstructional charteraids. school shall prominently post the information required by subsection A of this section on its website home page separately from its budget.

C.6.

OnLibrary orbooks. before November 30 of each year, the department of education shall electronically submit to the joint legislative budget committee and the governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting a report that compiles the information required by subsection A of this House Amendments to S.B.

15997. section for all charter schools statewide.

THEPayment DEPARTMENTof OFprincipal EDUCATIONand SHALLinterest PROMINENTLYon POSTbonds. THE REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE.

D.8.

BEGINNINGSchool JANUARYdistrict 1,administration 2024,emergency IFneeds THEthat DEPARTMENTare OFdirectly EDUCATIONrelated DETERMINESto THATpupils. A CHARTER SCHOOL IS IN VIOLATION OF THE POSTING REQUIREMENT PRESCRIBED IN SUBSECTION B OF THIS SECTION, INCLUDING A POSTING THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN ALL OF THE INFORMATION REQUIRED PURSUANT TO SUBSECTION A OF THIS SECTION, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL NOTIFY THE CHARTER SCHOOL THAT IT IS IN VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION AND THAT THE DEPARTMENT MAY IMPOSE A CIVIL PENALTY IF THE CHARTER SCHOOL DOES NOT CORRECT THE VIOLATION.

IF- THE1 DEPARTMENT- OFS.B. EDUCATION DETERMINES THAT THE CHARTER SCHOOL HAS FAILED TO CORRECT THE VIOLATION WITHIN SIXTY DAYS AFTER THE NOTICE IS ISSUED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBSECTION, THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SHALL IMPOSE A CIVIL PENALTY OF NOT MORE THAN $5,000 FOR EACH DAY THAT THE VIOLATION CONTINUES AFTER THE SIXTY-DAY PERIOD.

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VSThe -2-budget format shall contain distinct subsections for the following:

1.

Special programs to improve academic achievement of pupils in kindergarten programs and grades one through three as provided in section 15-482.