Bill Text: AZ HB2624 | 2016 | Fifty-second Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Appropriations; education

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-05 - Introduced in House and read first time [HB2624 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2016-HB2624-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: appropriations; education

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-second Legislature

Second Regular Session

2016

 

 

HB 2624

 

Introduced by

Representatives Meyer, Alston, Benally, Bolding, Cardenas, Clark, Fernandez, Gabaldón, Gonzales, Hale, Larkin, Mach, Mendez, Otondo, Plumlee, Rios, Saldate, Wheeler: Andrade, Espinoza, Friese, Kopec, McCune Davis, Velasquez

 

 

AN ACT

 

Appropriating monies for education.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  In addition to any other appropriations and subject to applicable laws, the sums or sources of revenue set forth in this act are appropriated for the fiscal years indicated and only from the funding sources listed for the purposes and objects specified.  If monies from funding sources in this act are unavailable, no other funding source may be used.

Sec. 2.  ARIZONA HEALTH CARE COST CONTAINMENT SYSTEM

                                                    2016-17

Graduate medical education          $  12,000,000

Fund sources:

State general fund                  $  12,000,000

Sec. 3.  DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

                                                    2016-17

District additional assistance      $  40,000,000

JTEDs – restoration of funding         30,000,000

JTEDs – full funding for

    large districts                     1,747,400

Starting teacher retention bonus       35,000,000

Teacher mentoring                      15,000,000

Total appropriation ‑ department

of education                        $ 121,747,400

Fund sources:

State general fund                  $ 121,747,400

The department of education shall distribute the amount appropriated in the JTEDs – restoration of funding line item on a pro rata basis based on the average daily membership of each joint technical education district.

The department shall distribute the monies in the starting teacher retention bonus line item to school districts and charter schools based on unweighted student counts.  A school district or charter school shall use the monies to award retention bonuses to first‑year teachers who sign a second‑year contract and to second‑year teachers who sign a third‑year contract and for other bonuses determined by the school district or charter school to retain experienced teachers.

A school district or charter school that conducts a teacher mentoring program that requires a mentor teacher to work with a mentee teacher on lesson planning, classroom management, time management and other areas of professional development, as determined by the mentor teacher and the principal or other administrative head of the school, shall report to the department of education the number of first-year, second-year and third-year teachers being mentored in the program.  The department shall distribute the monies in the teacher mentoring line item to the school district or charter school, and the school district or charter school receiving the monies shall use the monies to pay mentor teachers a stipend of the following amount:

1.  $1,500 for mentoring each first-year teacher in the program.

2.  $1,000 for mentoring each second-year teacher in the program.

3.  $500 for mentoring each third-year teacher in the program.

Sec. 4.  ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS

                                                    2016-17

Operating lump sum appropriation     $ 57,000,000

Fund sources:

State general fund                   $ 57,000,000

The Arizona board of regents shall distribute the $57,000,000 appropriation for performance funding to the three universities under its jurisdiction in accordance with a performance funding model determined by the board.

Sec. 5.  Arizona board of regents; appropriation; veterinary medicine program; fiscal year 2016-2017

The sum of $8,000,000 is appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2016‑2017 to the Arizona board of regents for distribution to the university of Arizona for the Oro Valley veterinary medicine program.

Sec. 6.  Financial aid trust fund; appropriation; fiscal year 2016-2017

In addition to any other appropriation made in fiscal year 2016-2017, the sum of $20,000,000 is appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2016-2017 to the financial aid trust fund established pursuant to section 15-1642, Arizona Revised Statutes.