CSSB 182(EDC): "An Act amending the amount of state funding provided to school districts for pupil transportation."
00 CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 182(EDC) 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 AS 14.09.010(a) is repealed and reenacted to read: 05 (a) A school district that provides student transportation services is eligible to 06 receive funding for operating the student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 2013, 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, 2013, as adjusted for inflation under (d) of this section. 11 * Sec. 2. AS 14.09.010 is amended by adding new subsections 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 (e) The department shall adopt regulations that provide for oversight of and 04 support to school districts in achieving a safe and cost-effective student transportation 05 system. The regulations must include a requirement for contract terms of not less than 06 three years, if feasible, standardized conditions and bid periods, and standards that 07 ensure cost efficiencies and exclusions. 08 * Sec. 3. AS 14.09.010(b) is repealed. 09 * Sec. 4. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to 10 read: 11 PUPIL TRANSPORTATION. (a) Subject to appropriation, the amount of funding 12 provided by the state for operating the student transportation system is the amount of a school 13 district's ADM, less the ADM for the district's correspondence programs during the current 14 fiscal year, multiplied by the per student amount for the school district as follows: 15 16 DISTRICT PER STUDENT AMOUNT 17 (1) (2) 18 for the school for the school 19 year beginning year beginning 20 July 1, 2011 July 1, 2012 21 Alaska Gateway $2,081 $2,148 22 Aleutians East 311 321 23 Anchorage 435 449 24 Annette Island 182 188 25 Bering Strait 48 50 26 Bristol Bay 2,672 2,758 27 Chatham 280 289 28 Copper River 1,586 1,637 29 Cordova 335 346 30 Craig 423 437 31 Delta/Greely 1,656 1,709
01 Denali 1,808 1,866 02 Dillingham 1,218 1,257 03 Fairbanks 817 843 04 Galena 255 263 05 Haines 626 646 06 Hoonah 298 308 07 Iditarod 211 218 08 Juneau 604 623 09 Kake 271 280 10 Kashunamiut 5 5 11 Kenai Peninsula 766 791 12 Ketchikan 727 750 13 Klawock 584 603 14 Kodiak Island 799 825 15 Kuspuk 654 675 16 Lake and Peninsula 384 396 17 Lower Kuskokwim 277 286 18 Lower Yukon 1 1 19 Matanuska-Susitna 910 939 20 Nenana 587 606 21 Nome 621 641 22 North Slope 1,120 1,156 23 Northwest Arctic 25 26 24 Pelican 72 74 25 Petersburg 374 386 26 Saint Mary's 193 199 27 Sitka 428 442 28 Skagway 36 37 29 Southeast Island 1,155 1,192 30 Southwest Region 598 617 31 Tanana 478 493
01 Unalaska 648 669 02 Valdez 735 759 03 Wrangell 701 723 04 Yakutat 744 768 05 Yukon Flats 264 272 06 Yukon/Koyukuk 299 309 07 Yupiit 2 2. 08 (b) In this section, 09 (1) "ADM" has the meaning given in AS 14.17.990; 10 (2) "district's ADM" means the sum of the ADMs in the district.