00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 317                                                                          
01 "An Act increasing the special needs funding and base student allocation for public                                     
02 schools, and extending the adjustment for student transportation funding; and                                           
03 providing for an effective date."                                                                                       
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1. AS 14.09.010(c) is amended to read:                                                                   
06            (c)  Beginning July 1, 2009, funding provided to a school district under (a) of                              
07       this section shall be adjusted annually on October 1 according to increases                                   
08       [CHANGES] in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers for the Anchorage                                   
09       metropolitan area compiled by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of                                    
10       Labor Statistics. The index for 1982 to 1984 is the reference base index for an                                   
11       adjustment made under this subsection.                                                                            
12    * Sec. 2. AS 14.17.420(a), as amended by sec. 6, ch. 9, SLA 2008, is amended to read:                              
13            (a)  As a component of public school funding, a district is eligible for special                             
14       needs funding and may be eligible for intensive services funding as follows:                                      

01                 (1)  special needs funding is available to a district to assist the district                            
02       in providing special education, gifted and talented education, vocational education,                              
03       and bilingual education services to its students; a special needs funding factor of 1.215                     
04       [1.20] shall be applied as set out in AS 14.17.410(b)(1);                                                         
05                 (2)  in addition to the special needs funding for which a district is                                   
06       eligible under (1) of this subsection, a district is eligible for intensive services funding                      
07       for each special education student who needs and receives intensive services and is                               
08       enrolled on the last day of the count period; for each such student, intensive services                           
09       funding is equal to the intensive student count multiplied by 13.                                                 
10    * Sec. 3. AS 14.17.470, as amended by sec. 10, ch. 9, SLA 2008, is amended to read:                                
11            Sec. 14.17.470. Base student allocation. The base student allocation is $5,805                         
12       [$5,680].                                                                                                         
13    * Sec. 4. AS 14.17.470, as amended by sec. 2 of this Act, is amended to read:                                      
14            Sec. 14.17.470. Base student allocation. The base student allocation is $5,930                         
15       [$5,805].                                                                                                         
16    * Sec. 5. AS 14.17.470, as amended by secs. 2 and 3 of this Act, is amended to read:                               
17            Sec. 14.17.470. Base student allocation. The base student allocation is $6,055                         
18       [$5,930].                                                                                                         
19    * Sec. 6. Section 11, ch. 9, SLA 2008, is amended to read:                                                         
20            Sec. 11. AS 14.09.010(c), added by sec. 2, ch. 9, SLA 2008 [OF THIS ACT],                                
21       is repealed June 30, 2014 [2011].                                                                             
22    * Sec. 7. Sections 2 and 3 of this Act take effect July 1, 2011.                                                   
23    * Sec. 8. Section 4 of this Act takes effect July 1, 2012.                                                         
24    * Sec. 9. Section 5 of this Act takes effect July 1, 2013.