Compendium of Budget Information for the 2012 General Session

Public Education
Appropriations Subcommittee

Function

Through the Educator Licensing and Professional Practices Act, the Legislature regulates the human capital required to be a teacher.

Intent language from the 2004 General Session requested that the State Board of Education submit an educator licensing fee plan that provided enough revenue to support the costs of the USOE-Educator Licensing Section. Since this time, the fee schedule has been updated on a 5 year basis to reflect the costs of the program and, thus, reduce the need for any state appropriation for administration.

In the 2007 General Session, the Legislature moved educator licensing into its own line item. This line item contains all revenue from teacher licensing fees deposited into the Professional Practices Restricted Account. In addition to creation of the line item, all FTEs associated with this program were moved from the USOE line item. By taking these actions, the Legislature required the Educator Licensing section to operate exclusively from fee revenue generated through the licensing process (a separate line-item prohibits the USOE from supplementing the operation of the division with state revenues, or other revenues available to the agency).

Statutory Authority

The following statute establishes requirements for the State Board of Education regarding Educator Licensing Fees:

UCA 53A-6-101 et. seq.
- Establishes that the State Board of Education will levy fees for new, renewed, or reinstated licenses or endorsements for educators.
- Requires that the Board "shall pay the expenses of issuing licenses and of Utah Professional Practices Advisory Commission (UPPAC) operations."
- Outlines that fee payments are credited to the Professional Practices Restricted Subfund in the Uniform School Fund and the Board shall cover the costs of collecting license fees from the restricted subfund.
- Requires submission of an annual report to the Public Education Appropriations Subcommittee detailing the fund, fees assessed and collected, and expenditures.

Special Funds

The Educator Licensing section at USOE receives restricted Uniform School Funds from the Professional Practices Restricted Subfund. Fees paid by educators to be licensed in Utah under UCA 53A-6-105 are deposited in the Professional Practices Restricted account. Funding generated through licensing fees supports the operations of processing educator licenses and the Utah Professional Practices Advisory Commission.

Funding Detail

Sources of Finance	2008 Actual	2009 Actual	2010 Actual	2011 Actual	2012 Approp
EFR - Professional Practices	$1,432,800	$1,465,900	$1,460,600	$2,173,100	$2,168,700
Beginning Nonlapsing	$0	$0	$132,900	$0	$0
Lapsing Balance	($305,300)	($349,900)	$0	($546,000)	($203,800)
Total	$1,127,500	$1,116,000	$1,593,500	$1,627,100	$1,964,900

Programs:	2008 Actual	2009 Actual	2010 Actual	2011 Actual	2012 Approp
Educator Licensing	$1,127,500	$1,116,000	$1,593,500	$1,627,100	$1,964,900
Total	$1,127,500	$1,116,000	$1,593,500	$1,627,100	$1,964,900

Categories of Expenditure	2008 Actual	2009 Actual	2010 Actual	2011 Actual	2012 Approp
Personnel Services	$666,900	$611,500	$790,600	$810,700	$750,500
In-state Travel	$5,900	$3,000	$3,800	$2,500	$3,800
Out-of-state Travel	$7,500	$900	$3,400	$1,900	$3,400
Current Expense	$351,300	$410,400	$677,500	$706,300	$1,089,000
DP Current Expense	$5,800	$5,200	$6,800	$1,100	$6,800
Other Charges/Pass Thru	$90,100	$85,000	$111,400	$104,600	$111,400
Total	$1,127,500	$1,116,000	$1,593,500	$1,627,100	$1,964,900

Other Indicators	2008 Actual	2009 Actual	2010 Actual	2011 Actual	2012 Approp
Budgeted FTE	11.0	10.3	12.0	11.0	11.0
Actual FTE	0.0	0.0	11.0	10.7	0.0

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