S.B. 5010 Enrolled

MINIMUM SCHOOL PROGRAM AMENDMENTS
2002 FIFTH SPECIAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Sponsor: Howard A. Stephenson
This act modifies provisions related to the State System of Public Education by modifying
the state contributions for the support of public schools in fiscal year 2002-03.
This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
AMENDS:
53A-17a-104, as last amended by Chapter 279, Laws of Utah 2002
53A-17a-124, as last amended by Chapter 279, Laws of Utah 2002
This act enacts uncodified material.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 53A-17a-104 is amended to read:
53A-17a-104. Amount of state's contribution toward minimum school program.
(1) The total contribution of the state toward the cost of the operation and maintenance
portion of the minimum school program may not exceed the sum of [$1,586,482,794]
$1,581,482,794 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2002, except as otherwise provided by the
Legislature through supplemental appropriations.
(2) It is intended that the funds provided are for the following purposes and in the
following amounts:
Estimated State and
Local Funds at
Estimated $2,132
Weighted Purpose Per Weighted
Pupil Units State Contribution Pupil Unit
20,097 Basic program - kindergarten. $42,846,804
429,871 Basic program - grades 1-12. $916,484,972
41,187 Basic program - professional staff. $87,810,684
1,655 Basic program - administrative costs. $3,528,460

7,386 Basic program - necessarily existent small $15,746,952
schools and units for consolidated schools.
52,997 Special education - regular program $112,989,604
- add-on WPUs for students with disabilities.
6,146 Preschool Special Education Program. $13,103,272
12,542 Self-contained regular WPUs. $26,739,544
238 Extended year program for severely disabled. $507,416
1,358 Special education - state programs. $2,895,256
23,566 Applied technology and technical education $50,242,712
district programs.
995 Applied technology district set-aside. $2,121,340
29,757 Class size reduction. $63,441,924
627,795 TOTAL OF ALL ABOVE PROGRAMS $1,338,458,940
Social Security and retirement programs. $217,072,218
Pupil Transportation to and from school. $56,164,040
Guarantee Transportation Levy. $500,000
Local Discretionary Block Grant Program. $21,824,448
Interventions for Student Success Block
Grant Program $15,553,062
Quality Teaching Block Grant Program [$69,178,111] $64,178,111
Math and Science - Beginning
Teacher Recruitment. $500,000
Highly Impacted Schools. $5,123,207
At-risk Programs. $24,324,161
Adult Education. $8,431,047
Accelerated Learning Programs. $8,622,674
Experimental and Developmental Program. $602,369
Electronic High School. $400,000

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School LAND Trust Program. $6,000,000
State-supported voted leeway. $141,682,087
State-supported board leeway. $41,465,445
Total estimated contributions to [$1,955,901,809] $1,950,901,809
school districts for all programs.
Less estimated proceeds from $369,419,015
state-supported local levies.
TOTAL STATE FUNDS [$1,586,482,794] $1,581,482,794
Section 2. Section 53A-17a-124 is amended to read:
53A-17a-124. Quality Teaching Block Grant Program -- State contributions.
(1) There is appropriated to the State Board of Education for the fiscal year beginning July
1, 2002, [$69,178,111] $64,178,111 for the Quality Teaching Block Grant Program.
(2) The State Board of Education shall distribute the money appropriated in Subsection (1)
to school districts and charter schools according to a formula adopted by the board, after consultation
with school districts and charter schools, that allocates the funding in a fair and equitable manner.
(3) Schools districts and charter schools shall use Quality Teaching Block Grant monies to
implement school and school district comprehensive, long-term professional development plans
required by Section 53A-3-701 .
(4) Each local school board shall:
(a) as provided by Section 53A-3-701 , review and either approve or recommend
modifications for each school's comprehensive, long-term professional development plan within the
district so that each school's plan is compatible with the district's comprehensive, long-term
professional development plan; and
(b) in an open public meeting, approve a plan to spend Quality Teaching Block Grant monies
to implement the school district's comprehensive, long-term professional development plan.
Section 3. Legislative intent.
Because the public education reductions made in the 2002 Fifth Special Session were
specifically applied to the Quality Teaching Block, the State Office of Education, and the State

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Office of Rehabilitation, it is the intent of the Legislature that school districts not increase their class
sizes as a result of these reductions.

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