First Substitute S.B. 5010

Representative Marda Dillree proposes the following substitute bill:

1 MINIMUM SCHOOL PROGRAM AMENDMENTS
2 2002 FIFTH SPECIAL SESSION
3 STATE OF UTAH
4 Sponsor: Howard A. Stephenson
5 This act modifies provisions related to the State System of Public Education by modifying
6 the state contributions for the support of public schools in fiscal year 2002-03. This act has
7 an immediate effective date.
8 This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
9 AMENDS:
10 53A-17a-104, as last amended by Chapter 279, Laws of Utah 2002
11 53A-17a-124, as last amended by Chapter 279, Laws of Utah 2002
12 This act enacts uncodified material.
13 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
14 Section 1. Section 53A-17a-104 is amended to read:
15 53A-17a-104. Amount of state's contribution toward minimum school program.
16 (1) The total contribution of the state toward the cost of the operation and maintenance
17 portion of the minimum school program may not exceed the sum of [$1,586,482,794]
18 $1,581,482,794 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2002, except as otherwise provided by the
19 Legislature through supplemental appropriations.
20 (2) It is intended that the funds provided are for the following purposes and in the
21 following amounts:
22 Estimated State and
23 Local Funds at
24 Estimated $2,132
25 Weighted Purpose Per Weighted

26 Pupil Units State Contribution Pupil Unit
27 20,097 Basic program - kindergarten. $42,846,804
28 429,871 Basic program - grades 1-12. $916,484,972
29 41,187 Basic program - professional staff. $87,810,684
30 1,655 Basic program - administrative costs. $3,528,460
31 7,386 Basic program - necessarily existent small $15,746,952
32 schools and units for consolidated schools.
33 52,997 Special education - regular program $112,989,604
34 - add-on WPUs for students with disabilities.
35 6,146 Preschool Special Education Program. $13,103,272
36 12,542 Self-contained regular WPUs. $26,739,544
37 238 Extended year program for severely disabled. $507,416
38 1,358 Special education - state programs. $2,895,256
39 23,566 Applied technology and technical education $50,242,712
40 district programs.
41 995 Applied technology district set-aside. $2,121,340
42 29,757 Class size reduction. $63,441,924
43 627,795 TOTAL OF ALL ABOVE PROGRAMS $1,338,458,940
44 Social Security and retirement programs. $217,072,218
45 Pupil Transportation to and from school. $56,164,040
46 Guarantee Transportation Levy. $500,000
47 Local Discretionary Block Grant Program. $21,824,448
48 Interventions for Student Success Block
49 Grant Program $15,553,062
50 Quality Teaching Block Grant Program [$69,178,111] $64,178,111
51 Math and Science - Beginning
52 Teacher Recruitment. $500,000
53 Highly Impacted Schools. $5,123,207
54 At-risk Programs. $24,324,161
55 Adult Education. $8,431,047
56 Accelerated Learning Programs. $8,622,674

57 Experimental and Developmental Program. $602,369
58 Electronic High School. $400,000
59 School LAND Trust Program. $6,000,000
60 State-supported voted leeway. $141,682,087
61 State-supported board leeway. $41,465,445
62 Total estimated contributions to $1,955,901,809
63 school districts for all programs.
64 Less estimated proceeds from $369,419,015
65 state-supported local levies.
66 TOTAL STATE FUNDS [$1,586,482,794] $1,581,482,794
67 Section 2. Section 53A-17a-124 is amended to read:
68 53A-17a-124. Quality Teaching Block Grant Program -- State contributions.
69 (1) There is appropriated to the State Board of Education for the fiscal year beginning July
70 1, 2002, [$69,178,111] $64,178,111 for the Quality Teaching Block Grant Program.
71 (2) The State Board of Education shall distribute the money appropriated in Subsection
72 (1) to school districts and charter schools according to a formula adopted by the board, after
73 consultation with school districts and charter schools, that allocates the funding in a fair and
74 equitable manner.
75 (3) Schools districts and charter schools shall use Quality Teaching Block Grant monies
76 to implement school and school district comprehensive, long-term professional development plans
77 required by Section 53A-3-701 .
78 (4) Each local school board shall:
79 (a) as provided by Section 53A-3-701 , review and either approve or recommend
80 modifications for each school's comprehensive, long-term professional development plan within
81 the district so that each school's plan is compatible with the district's comprehensive, long-term
82 professional development plan; and
83 (b) in an open public meeting, approve a plan to spend Quality Teaching Block Grant
84 monies to implement the school district's comprehensive, long-term professional development
85 plan.
86 Section 3. Legislative intent.
87 Because the public education reductions made in the 2002 Fifth Special Session were

88 specifically applied to the Quality Teaching Block, the State Office of Education, and the State
89 Office of Rehabilitation, it is the intent of the Legislature that school districts not increase their
90 class sizes as a result of these reductions.
91 Section 4. Effective date.
92 If approved by two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, this act takes effect
93 upon approval by the governor, or the day following the constitutional time limit of Utah
94 Constitution Article VII, Section 8, without the governor's signature, or in the case of a veto, the
95 date of veto override.