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SENATE BILL No. 4
By Special Committee on School Finance
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AN ACT concerning school district finance; revising certain definitions;
affecting determination of certain
weightings; increasing amounts authorized to be maintained in contingency
reserve funds; affecting the
procedure for adoption of local option budgets; authorizing adoption of
local/state partnership budgets;
amending K.S.A. 72-6414 and K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 72-6407, 72-6412, 72-6426,
72-6433 and 72-6442 and re-
pealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 72-6412a,
72-6433a, 72-6441, 72-6442a, 72-
8191 and 72-8192.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. On July 1, 1997, K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 72-6407 shall be and is hereby
amended to read as follows:
72-6407. (a) ``Pupil'' means any person who is regularly enrolled in a district
and attending kindergarten or any
of the grades one through 12 maintained by the district or who is regularly
enrolled in a district and attending
kindergarten or any of the grades one through 12 in another district in
accordance with an agreement entered
into under authority of K.S.A. 72-8233, and amendments thereto, or who is
regularly enrolled in a district and
attending special education services provided for preschool-aged exceptional
children by the district. Except
as otherwise provided in this subsection, a pupil in attendance full time shall
be counted as one pupil. A pupil
in attendance part time shall be counted as that proportion of one pupil (to the
nearest 1/10) that the pupil's
attendance bears to full-time attendance. A pupil attending kindergarten shall
be counted as 1/2 pupil. A pupil
enrolled in and attending an institution of postsecondary education which is
authorized under the laws of this
state to award academic degrees shall be counted as one pupil if the pupil's
postsecondary education enrollment
and attendance together with the pupil's attendance in either of the grades 11
or 12 is at least 5/6 time, otherwise
the pupil shall be counted as that proportion of one pupil (to the nearest 1/10)
that the total time of the pupil's
postsecondary education attendance and attendance in grade 11 or 12, as
applicable, bears to full-time atten-
dance. A pupil enrolled in and attending an area vocational school, area
vocational-technical school or approved
vocational education program shall be counted as one pupil if the pupil's
vocational education enrollment and
attendance together with the pupil's attendance in any of grades nine through 12
is at least 5/6 time, otherwise
the pupil shall be counted as that proportion of one pupil (to the nearest 1/10)
that the total time of the pupil's
vocational education attendance and attendance in any of grades nine through 12
bears to full-time attendance.
A pupil enrolled in a district and attending special education services, except
special education services for
preschool-aged exceptional children, provided for by the district shall be
counted as one pupil. A pupil enrolled
in a district and attending special education services for preschool-aged
exceptional children provided for by
the district shall be counted as 1/2 pupil. A pupil in the custody of the
secretary of social and rehabilitation
services and enrolled in unified school district No. 259, Sedgwick county,
Kansas, but housed, maintained, and
receiving educational services at the Judge James V. Riddel Boys Ranch, shall be
counted as two pupils. A pupil
residing at the Flint Hills job corps center shall not be counted. A pupil
confined in and receiving educational
services provided for by a district at a juvenile detention facility shall not
be counted. A pupil enrolled in a
district but housed, maintained, and receiving educational services at a state
institution shall not be counted.
(b) ``Preschool-aged exceptional children'' means exceptional children,
except gifted children, who have
attained the age of three years but are under the age of eligibility for
attendance at kindergarten.
(c) ``At-risk pupils'' means pupils who are eligible for free meals under
the national school lunch act and for
whom who are enrolled in a district which maintains an approved at-risk pupil
assistance plan.
(d) ``Enrollment'' means, for districts scheduling the school days or school
hours of the school term on a
trimestral or quarterly basis, the number of pupils regularly enrolled in the
district on September 20 plus the
number of pupils regularly enrolled in the district on February 20 less the
number of pupils regularly enrolled
on February 20 who were counted in the enrollment of the district on September
20; and for districts not
hereinbefore specified, the number of pupils regularly enrolled in the district
on September 20. Notwithstand-
ing the foregoing, if enrollment in a district in any school year has decreased
from enrollment in the preceding
school year, enrollment of the district in the current school year may be
computed by adding one-half the
number of pupils by which enrollment in the current school year has decreased
from enrollment in the pre-
ceding school year to enrollment in the current school year, except that such
computation shall not be applied
to decreases in enrollment in the current school year that are in excess of 4%
on the basis of enrollment in the
preceding school year.
(e) ``Adjusted enrollment'' means enrollment adjusted by adding at-risk
pupil weighting, program weighting,
low enrollment weighting, if any, correlation weighting, if any, school
facilities weighting, if any, and transpor-
tation weighting to enrollment.
(f) ``At-risk pupil weighting'' means an addend component assigned to
enrollment of districts on the basis
of enrollment of at-risk pupils.
(g) ``Program weighting'' means an addend component assigned to enrollment
of districts on the basis of
pupil attendance in educational programs which differ in cost from regular
educational programs.
(h) ``Low enrollment weighting'' means, for any school year in which the
provisions of K.S.A. 1996 Supp.
72-6442a are operational, an addend component assigned to enrollment of
districts having 1,800-1,899 or under
enrollment on the basis of costs attributable to maintenance of educational
programs by such districts in com-
parison with costs attributable to maintenance of educational programs by
districts having 1,800-1,899 or over
enrollment, for the school year in which the provisions of K.S.A. 1996 Supp.
72-6442 become operational and
each school year thereafter, an addend component assigned to enrollment of
districts having under 1,800
enrollment on the basis of costs attributable to maintenance of educational
programs by such districts in com-
parison with costs attributable to maintenance of educational programs by
districts having 1,800 or over
enrollment.
(i) ``School facilities weighting'' means an addend component assigned to
enrollment of districts on the basis
of costs attributable to commencing operation of new school facilities. School
facilities weighting may be as-
signed to enrollment of a district only if the district has adopted a local
option budget and budgeted therein
the total amount authorized for the school year. School facilities weighting may
be assigned to enrollment of
the district only in the school year in which operation of a new school facility
is commenced and in the next
succeeding school year.
(j) ``Transportation weighting'' means an addend component assigned to
enrollment of districts on the basis
of costs attributable to the provision or furnishing of transportation.
(k) ``Correlation weighting'' means, for any school year in which the
provisions of K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 72-
6442a are operational, an addend component assigned to enrollment of districts
having 1,800-1,899 or over
enrollment on the basis of costs attributable to maintenance of educational
programs by such districts as a
correlate to low enrollment weighting assigned to enrollment of districts having
1,800-1,899 or under enroll-
ment, for the school year in which the provisions of K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 72-6442
become operational and each
school year thereafter, an addend component assigned to enrollment of districts
having 1,800 or over enrollment
on the basis of costs attributable to maintenance of educational programs by
such districts as a correlate to low
enrollment weighting assigned to enrollment of districts having under 1,800
enrollment.
Sec. 2. On July 1, 1997, K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 72-6412 shall be and is hereby
amended to read as follows: 72-
6412. For the school year in which the provisions of K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 72-6442
become operational and each
school year thereafter, The low enrollment weighting of each district with under
1,800 enrollment shall be
determined by the state board as follows:
(a) Determine the amount of the median budget per pupil for the 1991-92
school year of districts with 75-
125 enrollment in such school year;
(b) determine the amount of the median budget per pupil for the 1991-92
school year of districts with 200-
399 enrollment in such school year;
(c) determine the amount of the median budget per pupil for the 1991-92
school year of districts with 1,900
or over enrollment;
(d) prescribe a schedule amount for each of the districts by preparing a
schedule based upon an accepted
mathematical formula and derived from a linear transition between (1) the median
budgets per pupil deter-
mined under (a) and (b), and (2) the median budgets per pupil determined under
(b) and (c). The schedule
amount for districts with 0-99 enrollment is an amount equal to the amount of
the median budget per pupil
determined under (a). The schedule amount for districts with 100-299 enrollment
is the amount derived from
the linear transition under (1). The schedule amount for districts with
300-1,899 enrollment is the amount
derived from the linear transition under (2);
(e) for districts with 0-99 enrollment:
(1) Subtract the amount determined under (c) from the amount determined
under (a);
(2) divide the remainder obtained under (1) by the amount determined under
(c);
(3) multiply the quotient obtained under (2) by the enrollment of the
district in the current school year.
The product is the low enrollment weighting of the district;
(f) for districts with 100-299 enrollment:
(1) Subtract the amount determined under (c) from the schedule amount of the
district;
(2) divide the remainder obtained under (1) by the amount determined under
(c);
(3) multiply the quotient obtained under (2) by the enrollment of the
district in the current school year.
The product is the low enrollment weighting of the district;
(g) for districts with 300-1,799 enrollment:
(1) Subtract the amount determined under (c) from the schedule amount of the
district;
(2) divide the remainder obtained under (1) by the amount determined under
(c);
(3) multiply the quotient obtained under (2) by the enrollment of the
district in the current school year.
The product is the low enrollment weighting of the district.
Sec. 3. On July 1, 1997, K.S.A. 72-6414 shall be and is hereby amended to
read as follows: 72-6414. (a) The
at-risk pupil weighting of each district shall be determined by the state board
by multiplying the number of at-
risk pupils included in enrollment of the district by .05 .075. The product is
the at-risk pupil weighting of the
district.
(b) The provisions of this section shall take effect and be in force from
and after July 1, 1992.
Sec. 4. On July 1, 1997, K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 72-6426 shall be and is hereby
amended to read as follows: 72-
6426. (a) There is hereby established in every district a fund which shall be
called the contingency reserve fund,
which fund shall consist of all moneys deposited therein or transferred thereto
according to law. The fund shall
be maintained for payment of expenses of a district attributable to financial
contingencies which were not
anticipated at the time of adoption of the general fund budget. Except as
otherwise provided in subsection (b),
at no time in any school year shall the amount maintained in the fund exceed an
amount equal to 4% 7.5% of
the general fund budget of the district for the school year.
(b) In any school year, if the amount in the contingency reserve fund of a
district is in excess of the amount
authorized under subsection (a) to be maintained in the fund, and if such excess
amount is the result of a
reduction in the general fund budget of the district for the school year because
of a decrease in enrollment,
the district may maintain the excess amount in the fund until depletion of such
excess amount by expenditure
from the fund for the purposes thereof.
Sec. 5. On July 1, 1997, K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 72-6433 shall be and is hereby
amended to read as follows: 62-
6433. (a) (1) The board of any district may be authorized to adopt a local
option budget in each school year for
a period of time not to exceed four school years, commencing with the 1997-98
school year, in an amount not
to exceed the state prescribed percentage of the amount of state financial aid
determined for the district in the
school year if the board of the district determines that adoption of such a
budget would be in the best interests
of the district.
(2) No district may adopt a local option budget under authority of this
subsection until a resolution author-
izing adoption of such a budget is passed by the board and published once in a
newspaper having general
circulation in the district. The resolution shall be published in substantial
compliance with the following form:
Unified School District No. __________________,
__________________ County,
Kansas.
RESOLUTION
Be It Resolved that:
The board of education of the above-named school district shall be authorized
to adopt a local option budget in each school year for a
period of time not to exceed ______ years in an amount not to exceed ______% of
the amount of state financial aid determined for the
current school year. The local option budget authorized by this resolution may
be adopted, unless a petition in opposition to the same,
signed by not less than 5% of the qualified electors of the school district, is
filed with the county election officer of the home county of the
school district within 30 days after publication of this resolution. In the
event a petition is filed, the county election officer shall submit the
question of whether adoption of the local option budget shall be authorized to
the electors of the school district at an election called for
the purpose or at the next general election, as is specified by the board of
education of the school district.
CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the above resolution was duly adopted by the board of
education of Unified School District No.
_______________________________________________________________________________,
__________________ County, Kansas, on the _________ day of __________________,
19______.
_____________________________________________
Clerk of the board of education.
All of the blanks in the resolution shall be appropriately filled. The blank
preceding the word ``years'' shall
be filled with a specific number, not to exceed the number 4, and the blank
preceding the percentage symbol
shall be filled with a specific number. No word shall be inserted in either of
the blanks. The percentage specified
in the resolution shall not exceed the state prescribed percentage state that
the board of education of the school
district shall be authorized to adopt a local option budget in each school year
in an amount not to exceed
______% of the amount of state financial aid determined for the current school
year. The blank preceding the
percentage symbol shall be filled with a specific number. No word shall be
inserted in the blank. The percentage
specified in the resolution shall not exceed the state prescribed percentage and
may be reduced if the state
prescribed percentage is reduced by operation of law. The resolution also shall
specify a definite period of time
for which the board shall be authorized to adopt a local option budget or, at
the discretion of the board, the
resolution may specify that the board shall be continuously and permanently
authorized to adopt a local option
budget. If the resolution specifies a definite period of time for which the
board shall be authorized to adopt a
local option budget, such period of time shall be expressed by the specific
number of school years for which the
board shall retain its authority to adopt the local option budget. No word shall
be used to express the number of
years for which the board shall be authorized to adopt the local option budget.
The resolution also shall be
published once in a newspaper having general circulation in the school district
state that the local option budget
authorized by the resolution may be adopted unless a petition in opposition to
adoption of a local option budget,
signed by not less than 5% of the qualified electors of the school district, is
filed with the county election officer
of the home county of the school district within 30 days after publication of
this resolution. If no petition as
specified above is filed in accordance with the provisions of the resolution,
the board may adopt a local option
budget. If a petition is filed as provided in the resolution, the board may
notify the county election officer of
the date of an election to be held to submit the question of whether adoption of
a local option budget shall be
authorized. If the board fails to notify the county election officer within 30
days after a petition is filed, the
resolution shall be deemed abandoned and no like resolution shall be adopted by
the board within the nine
months following publication of the resolution.
(3) The requirements of provision (2) do not apply to any district that is
continuously and permanently
authorized to adopt a local option budget. The adoption of a local option budget
by such a district shall require
a majority vote of the members of the board and shall require no other
procedure, authorization or approval.
(2) (4) If any district is authorized to adopt a local option budget, but
the board of such district chooses, in
any year, not to adopt such a budget, or chooses to adopt such budget in an
amount less than the amount of
the district prescribed percentage of the amount of state financial aid in any
school year, such board of education
may do so choose. If the board of any district refrains from adopting a local
option budget in any one or more
school years or refrains from budgeting the total amount authorized for any one
or more school years, the
authority of such district to adopt a local option budget shall not thereby be
extended beyond the original
period specified in the resolution authorizing adoption of such budget, nor
shall the amount authorized to be
budgeted in any succeeding school year shall not be increased thereby by such
refrainment, nor shall the
authority of the district be extended by such refrainment beyond the period of
time specified in the resolution
authorizing adoption of the local option budget if the resolution specified such
a period of time.
(3) (5) Whenever an initial resolution has been adopted under this
subsection, and such resolution specified
a lesser percentage than the state prescribed percentage, the board of the
district may adopt one or more
subsequent resolutions under the same procedure as provided for the initial
resolution and subject to the same
conditions, and shall be authorized to increase the percentage as specified in
any such subsequent resolution
for. If the initial resolution specified a definite period of time for which the
district is authorized to adopt a local
option budget, the authority to increase such budget by the percentage specified
in any subsequent resolution
shall be limited to the remainder of the period of time specified in the initial
resolution. Any percentage specified
in a subsequent resolution or in subsequent resolutions shall be limited so that
the sum of the percentage
authorized in the initial resolution and the percentage authorized in the
subsequent resolution or in subsequent
resolutions is not in excess of the state prescribed percentage in any school
year.
(4) (6) (A) Subject to the provisions of subpart (B), the board of any
district that has adopted a local option
budget and levied a tax under authority of K.S.A. 72-6435, and amendments
thereto, may initiate, at any time
after the final levy is certified to the county clerk under any current
authorization, procedures to renew its
authority to adopt a local option budget subject to the conditions and in the
manner specified in provision (1)
(2) of this subsection and, at four-year subsequent intervals thereafter, may in
like manner and subject to like
conditions renew such authorization for successive four-year periods of time.
(B) The board of any district that is continuously and permanently
authorized to adopt a local option budget
is authorized to levy a tax under authority of K.S.A. 72-6435, and amendments
thereto, in each school year in
which the board adopts a local option budget. The authority to levy such a tax
shall require no other procedure
or approval.
(7) To the extent the other provisions of this subsection conflict with this
provision, this provision shall control.
Any district that is authorized to adopt a local option budget under a
resolution passed and effectuated in ac-
cordance with the provisions of this subsection prior to the effective date of
this act may continue to operate
under the resolution which authorized the adoption of such budget for the period
of time specified in the resolution
or may abandon the resolution and operate under the provisions of this section
as amended by this act. Any such
district shall operate under the provisions of this section as amended by this
act after the period of time specified
in the resolution has expired.
(5) (8) As used in this subsection:
(A) ``Authorized to adopt a local option budget'' means that a district has
adopted a resolution under this
subsection, has published the same, and either that the resolution was not
protested or that it was protested
and an election was held by which the adoption of a local option budget was
approved.
(B) ``District prescribed percentage'' means the percentage specified in a
resolution under which a district
is authorized to adopt a local option budget. No such The district prescribed
percentage may be equal to, but
shall not exceed, the state prescribed percentage.
(C) ``State prescribed percentage'' means 25%. In the case of any district
that adopts a local/state partnership
budget, the state prescribed percentage applicable to such district shall be
reduced by a percentage equal to the
percentage of the amount of state financial aid adopted as the amount to be
budgeted in such local/state part-
nership budget.
(b) (1) The board of any district to which the provisions of this subsection
apply may adopt a local option
budget in the 1997-98 school year if the board of the district determines that
adoption of such a budget would
be in the best interests of the district. The adoption of a local option budget
in the 1997-98 school year under
authority of this subsection shall require a majority vote of the members of the
board and shall require no other
procedure, authorization or approval. The provisions of this subsection apply to
any district that is authorized
to adopt and that adopts a local option budget in the 1996-97 school year and,
in order to be authorized to
adopt a local option budget in the 1997-98 school year, would be required by
operation of this section prior to
its amendment by this act to initiate procedures to renew its authority to adopt
a local option budget, subject
to the conditions and in the manner specified in subsection (a), after
certifying to the county clerk the levy of
a tax for the purpose of financing all or a portion of the local option budget
adopted in the 1996-97 school year.
(2) The amount of a local option budget adopted by the board of a district
in the 1997-98 school year under
authority of this subsection shall not exceed an amount equal to the district
prescribed percentage of the amount
of state financial aid determined for the district in the school year. For the
purposes of this provision, the term
district prescribed percentage means the percentage specified in the resolution
under which a district is au-
thorized to adopt a local option budget in the 1996-97 school year. In the case
of any district that adopts a local
option budget under authority of this subsection and that also adopts a
local/state partnership budget, the district
prescribed percentage shall be reduced, if necessary, so that the sum of the
district prescribed percentage and
the percentage of the amount of state financial aid adopted as the amount to be
budgeted in the local/state
partnership budget is not in excess of the state prescribed percentage.
(3) To the extent the provisions of subsection (a) conflict with this
subsection, the provisions of this subsec-
tion shall control.
(4) The provisions of this subsection shall expire on June 30, 1998.
(c) (1) There is hereby established in every district that adopts a local
option budget a fund which shall be
called the supplemental general fund. The fund shall consist of all amounts
deposited therein or credited thereto
according to law.
(2) Subject to the limitation imposed under provision (3), amounts in the
supplemental general fund may be
expended for any purpose for which expenditures from the general fund are
authorized or may be transferred
to the general fund of the district or to any program weighted fund or
categorical fund of the district.
(3) Amounts in the supplemental general fund may not be expended nor
transferred to the general fund of
the district for the purpose of making payments under any lease-purchase
agreement involving the acquisition of
land or buildings which is entered into pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A.
72-8225, and amendments thereto.
(4) Any unexpended and unencumbered cash balance remaining in the
supplemental general fund of a
district at the conclusion of any school year in which a local option budget is
adopted shall be disposed of as
provided in this subsection. If the district did not receive supplemental
general state aid in the school year and
the district is authorized to adopt a local option budget in the ensuing school
year, the total amount of the cash
balance remaining in the supplemental general fund shall be maintained in such
fund or transferred to the
general fund of the district. If such a district is not authorized to adopt a
local option budget in the ensuing
school year, the total amount of the cash balance remaining in the supplemental
general fund shall be trans-
ferred to the general fund of the district. If the district received
supplemental general state aid in the school
year, transferred or expended the entire amount budgeted in the local option
budget for the school year, and
is authorized to adopt a local option budget in the ensuing school year, the
total amount of the cash balance
remaining in the supplemental general fund shall be maintained in such fund or
transferred to the general
fund of the district. If such a district is not authorized to adopt a local
option budget in the ensuing school year,
the total amount of the cash balance remaining in the supplemental general fund
shall be transferred to the
general fund of the district. If the district received supplemental general
state aid in the school year, did not
transfer or expend the entire amount budgeted in the local option budget for the
school year, and is not
authorized to adopt a local option budget in the ensuing school year, the total
amount of the cash balance
remaining in the supplemental general fund shall be transferred to the general
fund of the district. If the
district received supplemental general state aid in the school year, did not
transfer or expend the entire amount
budgeted in the local option budget for the school year, and is authorized to
adopt a local option budget in the
ensuing school year, the state board shall determine the ratio of the amount of
supplemental general state aid
received to the amount of the local option budget of the district for the school
year and multiply the total
amount of the cash balance remaining in the supplemental general fund by such
ratio. An amount equal to the
amount of the product shall be transferred to the general fund of the district.
The amount remaining in the
supplemental general fund may be maintained in such fund or transferred to the
general fund of the district.
Sec. 6. On July 1, 1997, K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 72-6442 shall be and is hereby
amended to read as follows: 72-
6442. (a) In any school year commencing after any school year in which the
provisions of K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 72-
6442a are operational, if the state board determines that the amount of
appropriations for general state aid,
inclusive of the amount determined necessary for effectuation of this section,
is sufficient to pay in full the
amount each district is entitled to receive for the school year, the provisions
of this section shall become op-
erational and The correlation weighting of each district with 1,800 or over
enrollment shall be determined by
the state board as follows:
(1) (a) Determine the schedule amount for a district with 1,800 enrollment
as derived from the linear
transition under (d) of K.S.A. 72-6412, and amendments thereto, and subtract the
amount determined under
(c) of K.S.A. 72-6412, and amendments thereto, from the schedule amount so
determined;
(2) (b) divide the remainder obtained under (1) by the amount determined
under (c) of K.S.A. 72-6412, and
amendments thereto, and multiply the quotient by the enrollment of the district
in the current school year.
The product is the correlation weighting of the district.
(b) The provisions of this section shall take effect and be in force from
and after July 1, 1995.
New Sec. 7. (a) The board of any district may adopt a local/state
partnership budget in each school year in
an amount not to exceed 5% of the amount of state financial aid determined for
the district in the school year
if the board of the district determines that adoption of such a budget would be
in the best interests of the
district. The adoption of a local/state partnership budget shall require a
majority vote of the members of the
board and shall require no other procedure, authorization or approval.
(b) There is hereby established in every district that adopts a local option
budget a fund which shall be
called the local/state partnership fund. The fund shall consist of all amounts
deposited therein or credited
thereto according to law. Amounts in the local/state partnership fund may be
expended for any purpose for
which expenditures from the special education fund are authorized or may be
transferred to the special edu-
cation fund of the district.
(c) (1) In each school year, each district that has adopted a local/state
partnership budget is eligible for
entitlement to an amount of local/state partnership aid. Entitlement of a
district to local/state partnership aid
shall be determined by the state board as provided in this subsection. The state
board shall:
(A) Determine the amount of the assessed valuation per pupil in the
preceding school year of each district
in the state;
(B) rank the districts from low to high on the basis of the amounts of
assessed valuation per pupil determined
under (A);
(C) identify the amount of the assessed valuation per pupil located at the
75th percentile of the amounts
ranked under (B);
(D) divide the assessed valuation per pupil of the district in the preceding
school year by the amount iden-
tified under (C);
(E) subtract the ratio obtained under (D) from 1.0. If the resulting ratio
equals or exceeds 1.0, the eligibility
of the district for entitlement to local/state partnership aid shall lapse. If
the resulting ratio is less than 1.0, the
district is entitled to receive local/state partnership aid in an amount which
shall be determined by the state
board by multiplying the amount of the local/state partnership budget of the
district by such ratio. The product
is the amount of local/state partnership aid the district is entitled to receive
for the school year.
(2) If the amount of appropriations for local/state partnership aid is less
than the amount each district is
entitled to receive for the school year, the state board shall prorate the
amount appropriated among the districts
in proportion to the amount each district is entitled to receive.
(3) Payments of local/state partnership aid shall be distributed to
districts at a time to be determined by the
state board. The state board shall certify to the director of accounts and
reports the amount due each district,
and the director of accounts and reports shall draw a warrant on the state
treasurer payable to the treasurer
of the district. Upon receipt of the warrant, the treasurer of the district
shall credit the amount thereof to the
local/state partnership fund of the district.
(d) (1) In each school year, the board of every district that has adopted a
local/state partnership budget
may levy an ad valorem tax on the taxable tangible property of the district for
the purpose of financing that
portion of the district's local/state partnership budget which is not financed
from any other source provided by
law and for the purpose of paying a portion of the principal and interest on
bonds issued by cities under authority
of K.S.A. 12-1774, and amendments thereto, for the financing of redevelopment
projects upon property located
within the district.
(2) The proceeds from the tax levied by a district under authority of this
section, except the proceeds of
such tax levied for the purpose of paying a portion of the principal and
interest on bonds issued by cities under
authority of K.S.A. 12-1774, and amendments thereto, for the financing of
redevelopment projects upon prop-
erty located within the district, shall be deposited in the local/state
partnership fund of the district.
(3) No district shall proceed under K.S.A. 79-1964, 79-1964a or 79-1964b,
and amendments to such sections.
(e) The provisions of this section shall take effect and be in force from
and after July 1, 1997.
New Sec. 8. (a) For the purposes of the school district finance and quality
performance act, and notwith-
standing any provision of the act to the contrary, the school facilities
weighting of each district to which the
provisions of this section apply shall be determined in the 1996-97 school year
as follows:
(1) Determine the number of pupils, included in enrollment of the district,
who are attending a new school
facility;
(2) multiply the number of pupils determined under (1) by .33. The product
is the school facilities weighting
of the district.
(b) For districts to which the provisions of this section apply, the school
facilities weighting prescribed under
subsection (a) is in lieu of the school facilities weighting prescribed under
K.S.A. 72-6415, and amendments
thereto.
(c) For the purpose of assigning the school facilities weighting prescribed
under subsection (a) to enrollment
of the districts to which the provisions of this section apply, the term ``new
school facility'' means any school
facility which a district commenced operating in the 1995-96 school year or in
the 1996-97 school year.
(d) The provisions of this section apply to any district that (1) commenced
operation of one or more new
school facilities in the 1992-93 school year or in any school year succeeding
the 1992-93 school year up to and
including the 1996-97 school year, and (2) is authorized to adopt and has
adopted a local option budget in an
amount equal to the state prescribed percentage of the amount of state financial
aid determined for the district
in the current school year, and (3) is experiencing extraordinary enrollment
growth as determined by the state
board of education, and (4) has been authorized to levy an ad valorem tax on the
taxable tangible property of
the district under K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 72-6441, which statutory section is
repealed by this act, for the purpose of
financing a portion of the costs attributable to commencing operation of one or
more new school facilities.
(e) The provisions of this section shall expire on June 30, 1997.
Sec. 9. K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 72-6441 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 10. On July 1, 1997, K.S.A. 72-6414 and K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 72-6407,
72-6412, 72-6412a, 72-6426, 72-
6433, 72-6433a, 72-6442, 72-6442a, 72-8191 and 72-8192 shall be and are hereby
repealed.
Sec. 11. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the Kansas register.