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H0669...............................................by REVENUE AND TAXATION
SCHOOL PLANT FACILITIES FUND - Adds to existing law to provide a school
plant facilities reserve fund levy from ten to twenty years duration if a
portion or all of the levy is for the purpose of abating, repairing or
replacing an unsafe or unhealthy physical plant; and to provide that the
election for the levy must be on one of the consolidated election dates.
02/23 House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/24 Rpt prt - to Rev/Tax
03/01 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/02 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/06 3rd rdg - PASSED - 56-13-1
AYES -- Alltus, Barraclough, Bieter, Black, Boe, Bruneel, Callister,
Campbell, Chase, Cheirrett, Clark, Crow, Cuddy, Deal, Denney,
Ellsworth, Field(13), Field(20), Gagner, Geddes, Gould, Hansen(23),
Hansen(29), Henbest, Jaquet, Jones, Judd, Kellogg, Kempton, Kendell,
Kunz, Linford, Mader, McKague, Meyer, Montgomery, Mortensen, Moss,
Moyle, Pearce, Pischner, Pomeroy, Reynolds, Ridinger, Ringo, Robison,
Schaefer(Tiegs), Sellman, Shepherd, Smith, Smylie, Stoicheff, Stone,
Tilman, Trail, Mr Speaker
NAYS -- Barrett, Bell, Hadley, Hammond, Hornbeck, Lake, Loertscher,
Sali, Stevenson, Taylor, Wheeler, Wood, Zimmermann
Absent and excused -- Marley
Floor Sponsor - Crow
Title apvd - to Senate
03/07 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Loc Gov
03/09 Rpt out - to Educ
03/23 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/24 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/30 3rd rdg - PASSED - 32-0-3
AYES--Andreason, Boatright, Branch, Bunderson, Burtenshaw, Cameron,
Danielson, Darrington, Davis, Deide, Dunklin, Frasure, Hawkins,
Ingram, Keough, King-Barrutia, Lee, McLaughlin, Noh, Parry,
Richardson, Riggs, Risch, Sandy, Schroeder, Sorensen, Stegner,
Stennett, Thorne, Wheeler, Whitworth, Williams
NAYS--None
Absent and excused--Crow, Geddes, Ipsen
Floor Sponsor - Schroeder
Title apvd - to House
03/31 To enrol
04/03 Rpt enrol - Sp signed
04/04 Pres signed - to Governor
04/14 Governor signed
Session Law Chapter 344
Effective: 04/14/00
H0669
|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ||||
Fifty-fifth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2000
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE BILL NO. 669
BY REVENUE AND TAXATION COMMITTEE
1 AN ACT
2 RELATING TO SAFE SCHOOL FACILITIES AND SCHOOL PLANT FACILITIES RESERVE FUNDS;
3 PROVIDING A STATEMENT OF LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND PURPOSES; AMENDING CHAP-
4 TER 8, TITLE 33, IDAHO CODE, BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION 33-804A,
5 IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE THAT SCHOOL PLANT FACILITIES RESERVE FUNDS MAY
6 EXCEED TEN YEARS BUT MAY NOT EXCEED TWENTY YEARS IF A PORTION OR ALL OF
7 THE LEVY IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ABATING, REPAIRING OR REPLACING AN UNSAFE
8 AND UNHEALTHY PHYSICAL PLANT AND TO PROVIDE THAT ELECTIONS FOR SUCH LEVIES
9 MUST BE HELD ON DATES SET FOR CONSOLIDATED ELECTIONS AS PROVIDED IN SEC-
10 TION 34-106, IDAHO CODE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
12 SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. The Legislature of the
13 State of Idaho finds that:
14 (1) Idaho banks have established the "Idaho Safe School Facilities Loan
15 Program" ("Program"), of not less than fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) to
16 provide low interest loans to school districts exclusively to abate, repair or
17 replace school facilities that contain unsafe or unhealthy conditions as
18 defined by the Constitution and laws of the state of Idaho;
19 (2) The repayment of loans from the Program may be from any legal source
20 of revenue available to Idaho school districts including, but not limited to,
21 lottery funds, discretionary funds and School Plant Facilities Reserve Fund
22 levies established pursuant to Section 33-804A, Idaho Code;
23 (3) It would be in the public interest to extend the maximum length of
24 repayment of the School Plant Facilities Reserve Fund levy and thus reduce the
25 annual payments needed to repay loans made for the purpose of abating, repair-
26 ing or replacing school facilities that contain unsafe or unhealthy condi-
27 tions.
28 SECTION 2. That Chapter 8, Title 33, Idaho Code, be, and the same is
29 hereby amended by the addition thereto of a NEW SECTION, to be known and des-
30 ignated as Section 33-804A, Idaho Code, and to read as follows:
31 33-804A. SCHOOL PLANT FACILITIES RESERVE FUND LEVY FOR SAFE SCHOOL FACIL-
32 ITIES. (1) Definition. As used in this section, public school facilities mean
33 the physical plant of improved or unimproved real property owned or operated
34 by a school district, including school buildings, administration buildings,
35 playgrounds, athletic fields, etc., used by schoolchildren or school district
36 personnel in the normal course of providing a general, uniform and thorough
37 system of public, free common schools, but does not include areas, buildings
38 or parts of buildings closed from or not used in the normal course of provid-
39 ing a general, uniform and thorough system of public, free common schools. The
40 aspects of a safe environment conducive to learning as provided by section
41 33-1612, Idaho Code, that pertain to the physical plant used to provide a gen-
42 eral, uniform and thorough system of public, free common schools are hereby
2
1 defined as those necessary to comply with the safety and health requirements
2 set forth in this section.
3 (2) Whenever under applicable law a board of trustees of a school dis-
4 trict has identified on the basis of an independent inspection of the
5 district's school facilities that some of those school facilities fail to com-
6 ply with codes addressing safety and health standards for facilities
7 (including electrical, plumbing, mechanical, elevator, fire safety, boiler
8 safety, life safety, structural, snow loading, and sanitary codes) adopted by
9 or pursuant to the Idaho building code advisory act, chapter 41, title 39,
10 Idaho Code, adopted by the state fire marshal, adopted by generally applicable
11 local ordinances, or adopted by rule of the state board of education and
12 applicable to school facilities, and that those school facilities that do not
13 comply with codes addressing unsafe or unhealthy conditions contain unsafe or
14 unhealthy conditions that cannot be abated with the school district's income
15 from current sources, that school district shall be eligible to participate in
16 the Idaho safe schools facilities loan program administered by Idaho banks.
17 Eligibility to participate in the Idaho safe schools facilities loan program
18 shall not affect or disqualify any school district from eligibility to partic-
19 ipate in any other program to abate unsafe or unhealthy conditions.
20 (3) In any school district in which a school plant facilities reserve
21 fund has been created, the period for which the school plant facilities
22 reserve fund levy may be in effect may extend beyond ten (10) years but not to
23 exceed twenty (20) years, provided that:
24 (a) The board of trustees shall determine that all or a portion of the
25 amount to be collected each year during the period of years in which the
26 levy is collected is made to abate, repair or replace school facilities
27 with unsafe or unhealthy conditions or to repay principal or interest for
28 abatement, repair or replacement of school facilities with unsafe or
29 unhealthy conditions that earlier took place.
30 (b) The question of the levy to be submitted to the electors of a dis-
31 trict and the notice of such election shall state the dollar amount pro-
32 posed to be collected each year during the period of years in each of
33 which the collection is to be made to abate, repair or replace school
34 facilities for the purpose of providing buildings complying with codes
35 defining safe and healthy conditions as required by applicable law.
36 (c) The election for such a levy conducted pursuant to this section shall
37 be held on one (1) of the days authorized by section 34-106, Idaho Code.
38 The provisions of section 33-804, Idaho Code, that are not modified by this
39 section shall apply to levies made pursuant to this section.
40 SECTION 3. An emergency existing therefor, which emergency is hereby
41 declared to exist, this act shall be in full force and effect on and after its
42 passage.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS10178
The purpose of this bill is to recognize the Idaho banking
industry's creation of the Idaho Safe School Facilities Loan
Program and to provide for plant facilities levies to be
extended for up to twenty (20) years for levies whose proceeds
will be used to abate, repair or replace facilities with
identified violations of safety and health codes applicable
to school buildings.
FISCAL IMPACT
This bill will have no impact on the state fund.
CONTACT: Representative Dolores Crow
Phone: (208) 332-1000
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/ FISCAL IMPACT H 669