Sine Kerr voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Title: Establishes a Ballot Referendum to Raise $900 Million Per Year for State K-12 Education Funding
Vote to pass a bill that establishes a ballot referendum to raise $900 million per year for state K-12 education funding.
Requires money distributed to the classroom site fund be allocated for the following (Sec. 4):
Classroom size reduction;
Teacher compensation, including base and performance pay;
Teacher development;
Educational intervention & dropout prevention program;
Voluntary full-day kindergarten;
Student support services;
Tutoring;
Character education;
School safety;
Career and technical education;
School improvement; and
Transportation.
Appropriates the following amounts to the Department of Education (Sec. 14):
$86,280,500 in monthly installments to fund basic state aid for additional school days; and
$7,800,000 in monthly installments to fund school safety.
Appropriates 82 percent of the amount remaining after the aforementioned distributions to the classroom site fund in monthly installments (Sec. 14).
Appropriates 13.75 percent of the amount remaining after the aforementioned distributions for the following in monthly installments (Sec. 14):
$86,469,200 to the Arizona Technology and Research Initiative, increasing annually by 2 percent beginning in fiscal year 2022-2023; and
The remaining amount to be distributed to the Arizona Board of Regents proportionally to each university based on the number of students that receive in-state tuition.
Appropriates 4.25 percent of the amount remaining after the aforementioned distributions for the following in monthly installments (Sec. 14):
$1.5 million to the Trade and Workforce Development Account established by each community college district; and
The remaining amount to be distributed to each provisional community college district and the treasurer of an indigenous tribe for each owned-and-operate community college on a reservation.
Establishes that the purpose of this bill is to mitigate the additional rate increment to the state transaction privilege tax and use the tax rate for education (Sec. 19).
Establishes that this bill takes effect on June 30, 2021 (Sec. 20).
Establishes that this bill only takes effect on June 30, 2021 if the Arizona Constitution is not amended by the next general election (Sec. 21).
Title: Establishes a Ballot Referendum to Raise $900 Million Per Year for State K-12 Education Funding