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HB 307 Public schools; adequacy of public education facilities in local school divisions.

Introduced by: Robert G. Marshall | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Adequacy of public education facilities in local school divisions. Requires the Board of Education to undertake a comprehensive assessment of the adequacy of public education facilities in each local school division of the Commonwealth. The bill sets forth factors that the Board must consider and requires that the locality cooperate during the assessment process. If the Board determines that a local school division's public education facilities are inadequate or will be inadequate within five years, then the local school board will have one year to develop a plan for curing such inadequacy. If the Board determines that such plan will not achieve adequacy, then it shall impose a public education residential impact fee upon the builder of each new residential unit in the local school division, until such time as the facilities are adequate. The Board shall base such fee on the pro-rata impact of each additional residential unit on (i) existing public education facilities, and on (ii) the costs of improving or constructing new public education facilities. The Board shall hold all collected fees on behalf of the local school division in the Virginia Public School Construction Grants Fund, or the local Capital School Projects Fund, if established by the local governing body, and disbursements shall be made in accordance with the provisions of each fund. The Board is authorized to promulgate regulations for the implementation of the act.


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