SB 182: "An Act amending the amount of state funding provided to school districts for pupil transportation."
00 SENATE BILL NO. 182 01 "An Act amending the amount of state funding provided to school districts for pupil 02 transportation." 03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 04 * Section 1. AS 14.09.010(a) is repealed and reenacted to read: 05 (a) A school district that provides student transportation services is eligible to 06 receive funding for operating the student transportation system. Beginning July 1, 07 2012, and subject to appropriation, the amount of funding provided by the state under 08 this section is the amount reported to the department in the audited financial statement 09 of the school district as actual pupil transportation expenditures for the school year 10 ending June 30, 2012, as adjusted for inflation under (d) of this section. 11 * Sec. 2. AS 14.09.010 is amended by adding a new subsection to read: 12 (d) Funding provided to a school district under (a) of this section shall be 13 adjusted annually on October 1 according to changes in the Consumer Price Index for 14 all urban consumers for the Anchorage metropolitan area compiled by the United
01 States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. The index for 1982 to 1984 is 02 the reference base index for an adjustment made under this subsection. 03 * Sec. 3. AS 14.09.010(b) is repealed. 04 * Sec. 4. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to 05 read: 06 PUPIL TRANSPORTATION. (a) Subject to appropriation, the amount of funding 07 provided by the state for operating the student transportation system for the school year 08 beginning July 1, 2011, is the amount of a school district's ADM, less the ADM for the 09 district's correspondence programs during the current fiscal year, multiplied by the per student 10 amount for the school district as follows: 11 DISTRICT PER STUDENT AMOUNT 12 Alaska Gateway $2,055 13 Aleutians East 280 14 Anchorage 430 15 Annette Island 65 16 Bering Strait 48 17 Bristol Bay 2,315 18 Chatham 77 19 Copper River 1,468 20 Cordova 336 21 Craig 463 22 Delta/Greely 1,656 23 Denali 1,520 24 Dillingham 1,080 25 Fairbanks 880 26 Galena 255 27 Haines 626 28 Hoonah 298 29 Iditarod 188 30 Juneau 603 31 Kake 204
01 Kashunamiut 5 02 Kenai Peninsula 675 03 Ketchikan 727 04 Klawock 223 05 Kodiak Island 775 06 Kuspuk 654 07 Lake and Peninsula 381 08 Lower Kuskokwim 209 09 Lower Yukon 1 10 Matanuska-Susitna 977 11 Nenana 572 12 Nome 390 13 North Slope 1,116 14 Northwest Arctic 22 15 Pelican 72 16 Petersburg 374 17 Saint Mary's 75 18 Sitka 410 19 Skagway 36 20 Southeast Island 1,101 21 Southwest Region 587 22 Tanana 478 23 Unalaska 648 24 Valdez 666 25 Wrangell 596 26 Yakutat 723 27 Yukon Flats 251 28 Yukon/Koyukuk 299 29 Yupiit 2. 30 (b) In this section, 31 (1) "ADM" has the meaning given in AS 14.17.990;
01 (2) "district's ADM" means the sum of the ADMs in the district.