Bill Text: HI SB628 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Public Charter Schools
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-24 - (S) Referred to EDU, WAM. [SB628 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2011-SB628-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO EDUCATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 302B-12, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsections (b) and (c) to read as follows:
"(b) Fringe benefit costs for charter school employees, regardless of the payroll system utilized by a charter school, shall be included in the department of budget and finance's annual budget request. No fringe benefit costs shall be charged directly to or deducted from the charter school per-pupil allocations.
The legislature
shall make an appropriation based upon the budget request; provided that the
legislature may make additional appropriations for facility and other costs[.];
and provided further that charter schools shall be entitled to a separate line
item in the budget of the department of education.
The governor, pursuant to chapter 37, may impose restrictions or reductions on charter school appropriations similar to those imposed on other public schools.
(c) Charter
schools shall be eligible for all federal financial support to the same extent
as all other public schools[.], including federal funding for Race to
The Top allocations under section 14001 of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009, as amended. The department shall provide the
office with all state-level federal grant proposals submitted by the department
that include charter schools as potential recipients and timely reports on
state-level federal grants received for which charter schools may apply or are
entitled to receive. Federal funds received by the department for charter
schools shall be transferred to the office for distribution to charter schools
in accordance with the federal requirements. If administrative services
related to federal grants and subsidies are provided to the charter school by
the department, the charter school shall reimburse the department for the
actual costs of the administrative services in an amount that shall not exceed
six and one-half per cent of the charter school's federal grants and subsidies.
Any charter school shall be eligible to receive any supplemental federal grant or award for which any other public school may submit a proposal, or any supplemental federal grants limited to charter schools; provided that if department administrative services, including funds management, budgetary, fiscal accounting, or other related services, are provided with respect to these supplemental grants, the charter school shall reimburse the department for the actual costs of the administrative services in an amount that shall not exceed six and one-half per cent of the supplemental grant for which the services are used.
All additional funds generated by the local school boards, that are not from a supplemental grant, shall be held separate from allotted funds and may be expended at the discretion of the local school boards."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Public Charter Schools
Description:
Gives public charter schools the right to a separate budget line item. Clarifies that public charter schools are eligible for federal Race to The Top funding.
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