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2024 SESSION
SB 128 Public schools; Standards of Quality funding calculations.
Introduced by: Schuyler T. VanValkenburg | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Public school funding; certain calculations. Places several parameters on Standards of Quality funding calculations performed by the Department of Education, including (i) requiring the Department, when calculating the cost of salaries under the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include facilities staff and transportation staff salaries in the calculation of any cost of competing adjustment to salaries for instructional and support positions that is provided as part of the state share of basic aid pursuant to the general appropriation act; (ii) requiring the Department, when estimating the cost of any compensation supplement for instructional and support positions under the Standards of Quality funding formula, to include and estimate the cost of such a compensation supplement for facilities staff; (iii) prohibiting the Department from applying any cap on inflation rate adjustments to non-personal cost categories during the biennial process of rebenchmarking the direct aid to public education budget; and (iv) requiring the Department to utilize a three-year average of the most recently available data to calculate the composite index of local ability-to-pay for each school division. This bill was incorporated into SB 105.
FULL TEXT
- 01/05/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102208D pdf
- 01/18/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24105402D-S1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/05/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102208D
- 01/05/24 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/10/24 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 01/18/24 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 01/18/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24105402D-S1
- 01/18/24 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/08/24 Senate: Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations (SB105-Lucas) (15-Y 0-N)