Bill Text: AZ HB2116 | 2019 | Fifty-fourth Legislature 1st Regular | Chaptered

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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-Chaptered.html

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House Engrossed

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-fourth Legislature

First Regular Session

2019

 

 

 

CHAPTER 6

 

HOUSE BILL 2116

 

 

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; delayed repeal

A.  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.

2.  The school district's total attending average daily membership as reported in the superintendent of public instruction's annual report for that particular fiscal year was less than thirty but more than ten. 

3.  The school district adopted an initial budget for that particular fiscal year 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 that particular fiscal year that was based on the correct statement of the small school adjustment pursuant to section 15‑949, Arizona Revised Statutes.

B.  This section is repealed from and after December 31, 2019.

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.

 

 

 

 

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR FEBRUARY 20, 2019.

 

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE FEBRUARY 20, 2019.