00SENATE BILL NO. 233                                                                                                     
01 "An Act relating to state aid for education."                                                                           
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1.  AS 14.17.031(a) is amended to read:                                                                    
04  (a)  [THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ADOPT REGULATIONS DEFINING                                                                 
05 FUNDING COMMUNITIES WITHIN EACH DISTRICT THAT REFLECT                                                                   
06 GEOGRAPHIC AND ATTENDANCE AREA FACTORS.] For the purpose of                                                             
07 determining instructional units, students are counted in the district and the funding                                   
08 community from which they receive educational services. The total number of                                             
09 instructional units in a school district is the sum of the following units for each                                     
10 funding community within the district, as determined by the department:                                                 
11   (1)  the number of units for elementary and secondary students                                                       
12 determined under AS 14.17.041(a) or (b);                                                                                
13   (2)  the number of units for vocational education determined under                                                   
14 AS 14.17.043;                                                                                                           

01   (3)  the number of units for special education determined under                                                      
02 AS 14.17.045; and                                                                                                       
03   (4)  the number of units for bilingual education determined under                                                    
04 AS 14.17.047.                                                                                                           
05    * Sec. 2.  AS 14.17.031 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                               
06  (c)  In this section, "funding community" means                                                                       
07   (1)  all of the public schools within a city school district;                                                        
08   (2)  all of the public schools within a borough school district;                                                     
09   (3)  all of the public schools within a regional educational attendance                                              
10 area;                                                                                                                   
11   (4)  a high school and dependent schools outside of a city but located                                               
12 within a borough school district or a regional educational attendance area;                                             
13   (5)  a public school with eight or more students in average daily                                                    
14 membership that cannot be reached by road from the funding community located                                            
15 nearest to the public school; and                                                                                       
16   (6)  a public school that is treated as a funding community by the                                                   
17 department on January 1, 1993, and that has at least eight or more students in average                                  
18 daily membership.