Bill Text: AZ HB2116 | 2019 | Fifty-fourth Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: School districts; understatement; expenditures
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-02-20 - Chapter 6 [HB2116 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2019-HB2116-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: school districts; understatement; expenditures |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-fourth Legislature First Regular Session 2019
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HB 2116 |
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Introduced by Representatives Biasiucci: Cobb, Senator Borrelli
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AN ACT
providing expenditure authority for school districts that previously undercounted students.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. School district budget; understatement of small school adjustment; expenditure authority
Notwithstanding section 15‑905, Arizona Revised Statutes, or any other law, a school district may spend monies levied and collected by the county on behalf of the school district for that fiscal year if all of the following conditions exist:
1. The school district is an elementary school district located in a county with a population of less than twenty‑one thousand persons but more than twenty thousand persons.
2. The school district's total attending average daily membership as reported in the superintendent of public instruction's annual report for fiscal year 2016‑2017 was less than thirty but more than twenty‑five.
3. The school district adopted an initial budget for fiscal year 2018‑2019 that was based on an understatement of the small school adjustment pursuant to section 15‑949, Arizona Revised Statutes.
4. The county board of supervisors levied and collected property taxes on behalf of the school district based on the correct small school adjustment pursuant to section 15‑949, Arizona Revised Statutes.
5. After the county board of supervisors levied and collected property taxes on behalf of the school district, the school district governing board adopted a corrected budget for fiscal year 2018‑2019 that was based on the correct statement of the small school adjustment pursuant to section 15‑949, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Sec. 2. Emergency
This act is an emergency measure that is necessary to preserve the public peace, health or safety and is operative immediately as provided by law.
