This bill makes changes to the distributions for Proposition 301 and Repeals language associated with the Prop 301 extension passed in 2018.
- Repeals language specifying the percentage of
Classroom Site Fund (CSF) monies each district and charter school must
allocate for specified purposes.
- Expands the list of eligible purposes CSF monies may
be expended on to include the following:
- Educational interventions;
- Voluntary Full-Day Kindergarten;
- Increased cost of additional school
days enacted in 2000;
- Student support services;
- Tutoring;
- Character education;
- School Resource Officers; and
- Career and Technical Education.
- Removes the following as eligible expenses for CSF
monies:
- Assessment intervention programs; and
- Teacher liability insurance premiums.
- Requires ADE to annually use $86,280 of CSF monies
to fund basic state aid.
- Specifies all monies collected from the "Prop
301" tax will be distributed as follows:
- 70% to the CSF;
- 20% in the following manner:
i.
34%
to the Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF); and
ii.
66%
to the Arizona Board of Regents (BAOR) proportionally based on resident tuition
enrollment.
- 5% in the following manner:
i.
$48
million as follows:
- $1 million to each community
college district for workforce development programs;
- $300,000 to each provisional
community college district for trade and workforce development
programs; and
- The remaining monies will be
distributed based on the full-time student count of each community
college and provisional community college.
ii.
$2
million as follows:
- $500,000 to each qualifying
community college owned, operated or chartered by an Indian Tribe for
trade and workforce development programs; and
- The remaining monies will be
distributed based on full-time student count for each qualifying
community college.
- 5% in the following manner:
i.
$25
million to the General Fund for the low-income tax credit;
ii.
$15
million to the Department of Education (ADE) for the school safety program;
iii.
$7
million to ADE for the education learning and accountability system;
iv.
$3
million to the Auditor General (OAG) to report on the use of Prop 301 monies by
the recipients; and
v.
Any
remaining monies to the CSF.
- States if monies collected from the tax are
insufficient to fund the community college workforce development programs
as outlined, the distributions will be reduced proportionally.
- Specifies the bill is conditional upon the passage
of HCR 2024 at the next general election.
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