CSHB 273(FIN): "An Act relating to school funding, funding for student transportation services, the base student allocation, district cost factors, and the adjustments for intensive services and average daily membership calculations; and providing for an effective date."
00 CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 273(FIN) 01 "An Act relating to school funding, funding for student transportation services, the base 02 student allocation, district cost factors, and the adjustments for intensive services and 03 average daily membership calculations; and providing for an effective date." 04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 05 * Section 1. AS 14.09.010(a) is repealed and reenacted to read: 06 (a) A school district that provides student transportation services is eligible to 07 receive funding for operating the student transportation system. Subject to 08 appropriation, the amount of funding provided by the state under this section is the 09 amount of the school district's ADM, less the ADM for the district's correspondence 10 programs during the current fiscal year, multiplied by the per student amount for the 11 school district as follows: 12 DISTRICT PER STUDENT AMOUNT 13 Alaska Gateway $1,566 14 Aleutians East 265
01 Anchorage 384 02 Annette Island 61 03 Bering Strait 45 04 Bristol Bay 2,187 05 Chatham 73 06 Copper River 1,387 07 Cordova 278 08 Craig 266 09 Delta/Greely 1,413 10 Denali 1,708 11 Dillingham 1,020 12 Fairbanks 665 13 Galena 241 14 Haines 592 15 Hoonah 281 16 Iditarod 178 17 Juneau 525 18 Kake 193 19 Kashunamiut 5 20 Kenai Peninsula 638 21 Ketchikan 686 22 Klawock 210 23 Kodiak Island 560 24 Kuspuk 618 25 Lake and Peninsula 359 26 Lower Kuskokwim 198 27 Lower Yukon 1 28 Matanuska-Susitna 726 29 Nenana 530 30 Nome 368 31 North Slope 896
01 Northwest Arctic 21 02 Pelican 68 03 Petersburg 261 04 Saint Mary's 71 05 Sitka 404 06 Skagway 34 07 Southeast Island 1,040 08 Southwest Region 565 09 Tanana 451 10 Unalaska 612 11 Valdez 629 12 Wrangell 563 13 Yakutat 683 14 Yukon Flats 237 15 Yukon/Koyukuk 282 16 Yupiit 2. 17 * Sec. 2. AS 14.09.010 is amended by adding a new subsection to read: 18 (c) Beginning July 1, 2009, funding provided to a school district under (a) of 19 this section shall be adjusted annually on October 1 according to changes in the 20 Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers for the Anchorage metropolitan area 21 compiled by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. The 22 index for 1982 to 1984 is the reference base index for an adjustment made under this 23 subsection. 24 * Sec. 3. AS 14.17.410(b) is amended to read: 25 (b) Public school funding consists of state aid, a required local contribution, 26 and eligible federal impact aid determined as follows: 27 (1) state aid equals basic need minus a required local contribution and 28 90 percent of eligible federal impact aid for that fiscal year; basic need equals the sum 29 obtained under (D) of this paragraph, multiplied by the base student allocation set out 30 in AS 14.17.470; district adjusted ADM is calculated as follows: 31 (A) the ADM of each school in the district is calculated by
01 applying the school size factor to the student count as set out in AS 14.17.450; 02 (B) the number obtained under (A) of this paragraph is 03 multiplied by the district cost factor described in AS 14.17.460; 04 (C) the ADMs of each school in a district, as adjusted 05 according to (A) and (B) of this paragraph, are added; the sum is then 06 multiplied by the special needs factor set out in AS 14.17.420(a)(1); 07 (D) the number obtained for intensive services under 08 AS 14.17.420(a)(2) and the number obtained for correspondence study under 09 AS 14.17.430 are added to the number obtained under (C) of this paragraph; 10 (E) notwithstanding (A) - (C) of this paragraph, if a school 11 district's ADM adjusted for school size under (A) of this paragraph 12 decreases by five percent or more from one fiscal year to the next fiscal 13 year, the school district may use the last fiscal year before the decrease as 14 a base fiscal year to offset the decrease, according to the following method: 15 (i) for the first fiscal year after the base fiscal year 16 determined under this subparagraph, the school district's ADM 17 adjusted for school size determined under (A) of this paragraph is 18 calculated as the district's ADM adjusted for school size, plus 75 19 percent of the difference in the district's ADM adjusted for school 20 size between the base fiscal year and the first fiscal year after the 21 base fiscal year; 22 (ii) for the second fiscal year after the base fiscal 23 year determined under this subparagraph, the school district's 24 ADM adjusted for school size determined under (A) of this 25 paragraph is calculated as the district's ADM adjusted for school 26 size, plus 50 percent of the difference in the district's ADM 27 adjusted for school size between the base fiscal year and the second 28 fiscal year after the base fiscal year; 29 (iii) for the third fiscal year after the base fiscal year 30 determined under this subparagraph, the school district's ADM 31 adjusted for school size determined under (A) of this paragraph is
01 calculated as the district's ADM adjusted for school size, plus 25 02 percent of the difference in the district's ADM adjusted for school 03 size between the base fiscal year and the third fiscal year after the 04 base fiscal year; 05 (F) the method established in (E) of this paragraph is 06 available to a school district for the three fiscal years following the base 07 fiscal year determined under (E) of this paragraph only if the district's 08 ADM adjusted for school size determined under (A) of this paragraph for 09 each fiscal year is less than the district's ADM adjusted for school size in 10 the base fiscal year; 11 (G) the method established in (E) of this paragraph does 12 not apply to a decrease in the district's ADM adjusted for school size 13 resulting from a loss of enrollment that occurs as a result of a boundary 14 change under AS 29; 15 (2) the required local contribution of a city or borough school district is 16 the equivalent of a four mill tax levy on the full and true value of the taxable real and 17 personal property in the district as of January 1 of the second preceding fiscal year, as 18 determined by the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic 19 Development under AS 14.17.510 and AS 29.45.110, not to exceed 45 percent of a 20 district's basic need for the preceding fiscal year as determined under (1) of this 21 subsection. 22 * Sec. 4. AS 14.17.420(a) is amended to read: 23 (a) As a component of public school funding, a district is eligible for special 24 needs funding and may be eligible for intensive services funding as follows: 25 (1) special needs funding is available to a district to assist the district 26 in providing special education, gifted and talented education, vocational education, 27 and bilingual education services to its students; a special needs funding factor of 1.20 28 shall be applied as set out in AS 14.17.410(b)(1); 29 (2) in addition to the special needs funding for which a district is 30 eligible under (1) of this subsection, a district is eligible for intensive services funding 31 for each special education student who needs and receives intensive services and is
01 enrolled on the last day of the count period; for each such student, intensive services 02 funding is equal to the intensive student count multiplied by nine [FIVE]. 03 * Sec. 5. AS 14.17.420(a), as amended by sec. 4 of this Act, is amended to read: 04 (a) As a component of public school funding, a district is eligible for special 05 needs funding and may be eligible for intensive services funding as follows: 06 (1) special needs funding is available to a district to assist the district 07 in providing special education, gifted and talented education, vocational education, 08 and bilingual education services to its students; a special needs funding factor of 1.20 09 shall be applied as set out in AS 14.17.410(b)(1); 10 (2) in addition to the special needs funding for which a district is 11 eligible under (1) of this subsection, a district is eligible for intensive services funding 12 for each special education student who needs and receives intensive services and is 13 enrolled on the last day of the count period; for each such student, intensive services 14 funding is equal to the intensive student count multiplied by 11 [NINE]. 15 * Sec. 6. AS 14.17.420(a), as amended by secs. 4 and 5 of this Act, is amended to read: 16 (a) As a component of public school funding, a district is eligible for special 17 needs funding and may be eligible for intensive services funding as follows: 18 (1) special needs funding is available to a district to assist the district 19 in providing special education, gifted and talented education, vocational education, 20 and bilingual education services to its students; a special needs funding factor of 1.20 21 shall be applied as set out in AS 14.17.410(b)(1); 22 (2) in addition to the special needs funding for which a district is 23 eligible under (1) of this subsection, a district is eligible for intensive services funding 24 for each special education student who needs and receives intensive services and is 25 enrolled on the last day of the count period; for each such student, intensive services 26 funding is equal to the intensive student count multiplied by 13 [11]. 27 * Sec. 7. AS 14.17.460(a) is repealed and reenacted to read: 28 (a) For purposes of calculating a district's adjusted ADM under 29 AS 14.17.410(b)(1), the district cost factor for a school district is (1) for the fiscal year 30 ending June 30, 2009, the factor set out under column (A) of this subsection, (2) for 31 the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, the factor set out under column (B) of this
01 subsection, (3) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, the factor set out under 02 column (C) of this subsection, (4) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, the factor 03 set out under column (D) of this subsection, and (5) for fiscal years ending on or after 04 June 30, 2013, the factor set out under column (E) of this subsection: 05 DISTRICT COST FACTOR 06 DISTRICT (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 07 Alaska Gateway 1.443 1.481 1.519 1.557 1.594 08 Aleutians East 1.707 1.778 1.849 1.920 1.991 09 Aleutians Region 1.838 1.864 1.890 1.916 1.939 10 Anchorage 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 11 Annette Island 1.175 1.216 1.257 1.298 1.338 12 Bering Strait 1.762 1.821 1.880 1.939 1.998 13 Bristol Bay 1.370 1.397 1.424 1.451 1.478 14 Chatham 1.348 1.405 1.462 1.519 1.576 15 Chugach 1.395 1.420 1.445 1.470 1.496 16 Copper River 1.246 1.264 1.282 1.300 1.316 17 Cordova 1.165 1.182 1.199 1.216 1.234 18 Craig 1.108 1.133 1.158 1.183 1.206 19 Delta/Greely 1.174 1.191 1.208 1.225 1.241 20 Denali 1.323 1.326 1.329 1.332 1.332 21 Dillingham 1.300 1.312 1.324 1.336 1.346 22 Fairbanks 1.055 1.059 1.063 1.067 1.070 23 Galena 1.370 1.376 1.382 1.388 1.391 24 Haines 1.104 1.128 1.152 1.176 1.200 25 Hoonah 1.227 1.270 1.313 1.356 1.399 26 Hydaburg 1.295 1.348 1.401 1.454 1.504 27 Iditarod 1.658 1.705 1.752 1.799 1.846 28 Juneau 1.075 1.093 1.111 1.129 1.145 29 Kake 1.242 1.296 1.350 1.404 1.459 30 Kashunamiut 1.504 1.533 1.562 1.591 1.619 31 Kenai Peninsula 1.088 1.109 1.130 1.151 1.171
01 Ketchikan 1.085 1.106 1.127 1.148 1.170 02 Klawock 1.160 1.196 1.232 1.268 1.302 03 Kodiak Island 1.191 1.216 1.241 1.266 1.289 04 Kuspuk 1.584 1.622 1.660 1.698 1.734 05 Lake and Peninsula 1.776 1.831 1.886 1.941 1.994 06 Lower Kuskokwim 1.577 1.599 1.621 1.643 1.663 07 Lower Yukon 1.650 1.703 1.756 1.809 1.861 08 Matanuska-Susitna 1.040 1.048 1.056 1.064 1.070 09 Mt. Edgecumbe 1.098 1.123 1.148 1.173 1.195 10 Nenana 1.304 1.313 1.322 1.331 1.338 11 Nome 1.385 1.402 1.419 1.436 1.450 12 North Slope 1.648 1.684 1.720 1.756 1.791 13 Northwest Arctic 1.686 1.720 1.754 1.788 1.823 14 Pelican 1.384 1.408 1.432 1.456 1.477 15 Petersburg 1.122 1.153 1.184 1.215 1.244 16 Pribilof 1.555 1.589 1.623 1.657 1.691 17 Sitka 1.098 1.123 1.148 1.173 1.195 18 Skagway 1.159 1.163 1.167 1.171 1.174 19 Southeast Island 1.264 1.299 1.334 1.369 1.403 20 Southwest Region 1.554 1.587 1.620 1.653 1.685 21 St. Mary's 1.488 1.522 1.556 1.590 1.624 22 Tanana 1.641 1.677 1.713 1.749 1.786 23 Unalaska 1.343 1.368 1.393 1.418 1.441 24 Valdez 1.133 1.143 1.153 1.163 1.170 25 Wrangell 1.080 1.100 1.120 1.140 1.159 26 Yakutat 1.229 1.275 1.321 1.367 1.412 27 Yukon Flats 1.892 1.948 2.004 2.060 2.116 28 Yukon/Koyukuk 1.669 1.711 1.753 1.795 1.835 29 Yupiit 1.596 1.628 1.660 1.692 1.723. 30 * Sec. 8. AS 14.17.470 is amended to read: 31 Sec. 14.17.470. Base student allocation. The base student allocation is $5,480
01 [$5,380]. 02 * Sec. 9. AS 14.17.470, as amended by sec. 8 of this Act, is amended to read: 03 Sec. 14.17.470. Base student allocation. The base student allocation is $5,580 04 [$5,480]. 05 * Sec. 10. AS 14.17.470, as amended by secs. 8 and 9 of this Act, is amended to read: 06 Sec. 14.17.470. Base student allocation. The base student allocation is $5,680 07 [$5,580]. 08 * Sec. 11. AS 14.09.010(c), added by sec. 2 of this Act, is repealed June 30, 2011. 09 * Sec. 12. Sections 1, 3, 4, 7, and 8 of this Act take effect July 1, 2008. 10 * Sec. 13. Sections 5 and 9 of this Act take effect July 1, 2009. 11 * Sec. 14. Sections 6 and 10 of this Act take effect July 1, 2010.