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H0183..........................................................by EDUCATION SCHOOL BUILDING MAINTENANCE - Amends existing law to provide for application of expenditures for school building maintenance in excess of a specified percentage as a credit against the required annual allocation for school building maintenance; to clarify uses of allocated moneys; to clarify calculation of replacement value; to revise the definition of "school building"; and to define "annually." 02/13 House intro - 1st rdg - to printing 02/14 Rpt prt - to Educ 02/22 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg 02/23 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg 02/28 3rd rdg - PASSED - 70-0-0 AYES -- Anderson, Andrus, Barrett, Bayer, Bedke, Bell, Bilbao, Black, Block, Bock, Boe, Bolz, Brackett, Bradford, Chadderdon, Chavez, Chew, Clark, Collins, Crane, Durst, Edmunson, Eskridge, Hagedorn, Hart, Harwood, Henbest, Henderson, Jaquet, Killen, King, Kren, Labrador, Lake, LeFavour, Loertscher, Luker, Marriott, Mathews, McGeachin, Mortimer, Moyle, Nielsen, Nonini, Pasley-Stuart, Patrick, Pence, Raybould, Ring, Ringo, Roberts, Ruchti, Rusche, Sayler, Schaefer, Shepherd(2), Shepherd(8), Shirley, Shively, Smith(30), Smith(24), Snodgrass, Stevenson, Thayn, Trail, Vander Woude, Wills, Wood(27), Wood(35), Mr. Speaker NAYS -- None Absent and excused -- None Floor Sponsor - Bedke Title apvd - to Senate 03/01 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Educ 03/06 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg 03/07 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg 03/13 3rd rdg - PASSED - 35-0-0 AYES -- Andreason, Bair, Bastian, Bilyeu, Broadsword, Burkett, Cameron, Coiner, Corder, Darrington, Davis, Fulcher, Gannon, Geddes, Goedde, Hammond, Heinrich, Hill, Jorgenson, Kelly, Keough, Langhorst, Little, Lodge, Malepeai, McGee, McKague, McKenzie, Pearce, Richardson, Schroeder, Siddoway, Stegner, Stennett, Werk NAYS -- None Absent and excused -- None Floor Sponsors - Keough & McKenzie Title apvd - to House 03/14 To enrol 03/15 Rpt enrol - Sp signed - Pres signed 03/16 To Governor 03/21 Governor signed Session Law Chapter 142 Effective: 07/01/06
]]]] LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ]]]] Fifty-ninth Legislature First Regular Session - 2007IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HOUSE BILL NO. 183 BY EDUCATION COMMITTEE 1 AN ACT 2 RELATING TO SCHOOL BUILDING MAINTENANCE; AMENDING SECTION 33-1019, IDAHO CODE, 3 TO PROVIDE FOR APPLICATION OF EXPENDITURES FOR SCHOOL BUILDING MAINTENANCE 4 IN EXCESS OF A SPECIFIED PERCENTAGE AS A CREDIT AGAINST THE REQUIRED 5 ANNUAL ALLOCATION FOR SCHOOL BUILDING MAINTENANCE, TO PROVIDE CORRECT TER- 6 MINOLOGY, TO CLARIFY USES OF ALLOCATED MONEYS, TO CLARIFY CALCULATION OF 7 REPLACEMENT VALUE, TO REVISE THE DEFINITION OF "SCHOOL BUILDING" AND TO 8 DEFINE "ANNUALLY"; AMENDING SECTION 39-8011, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE COR- 9 RECT TERMINOLOGY; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AND PROVIDING RETROACTIVE APPLI- 10 CATION. 11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho: 12 SECTION 1. That Section 33-1019, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby 13 amended to read as follows: 14 33-1019. ALLOCATION FOR SCHOOL BUILDING MAINTENANCE REQUIRED. (1) School 15 districts shall annuallydeposit to aallocate moneys for school building 16 maintenancefund moneysfrom any source available to the district equal to at 17 least two percent (2%) of the replacement value of school buildings, less the 18depositreceipt of state funds as provided in this section. Any school dis- 19 trict expending more than four percent (4%) of the replacement value of school 20 buildings for school building maintenance in any single fiscal year, beginning 21 with the expenditures of fiscal year 2005, may apply the excess as a credit 22 against the two percent (2%) requirement of this section until such credit is 23 depleted or fifteen (15) years have expired. The state shall annually provide 24 funds to bedeposited into theallocated for school building maintenancefund25 as follows: 26 (a) Divide one (1) by the school district's value index for the fiscal 27 year, as calculated pursuant to section 33-906B, Idaho Code; and 28 (b) Multiply the result by one-half of one percent (0.5%) of the replace- 29 ment value of school buildings. 30 (c) For purposes of the calculation in this subsection (1), public 31 charter schools shall be assigned a value index of one (1). 32 (2) State funds shall be appropriated through the educational support 33 program/division of facilities, and disbursed from the school district build- 34 ing account. The order of funding sources used to meet the state funding 35 requirements of this section shall be as follows: 36 (a) State lottery funds distributed pursuant to section 33-905(2), Idaho 37 Code; 38 (b) If state lottery funds are insufficient to meet the state funding 39 requirements of this section, then other state funds available pursuant to 40 section 33-905(3), Idaho Code, shall be utilized; and 41 (c) If the funds in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection (2) are 42 insufficient to meet the state funding requirements of this section, then 43 funds available pursuant to section 33-1018B, Idaho Code, shall be uti- 2 1 lized. 2 (3) Moneysin a school district'sallocated for school building mainte- 3 nancefundshall be used exclusively for the maintenance and repair of school 4 buildings or any serious or imminent safety hazard on the property of said 5 school buildings as identified pursuant to chapter 80, title 39, Idaho Code, 6 and shall be utilized, first, to abate serious or imminent safety hazards, as 7 identified pursuant to chapter 80, title 39, Idaho Code. Unexpended moneys in 8 a school district's school building maintenancefundallocation shall be car- 9 ried over from year to year, and shall remain allocated for the purposes spec- 10 ified in this subsection (3). The replacement value of school buildings shall 11 be determined by multiplying the number of square feet of building floor space 12 in school buildings by eighty dollars ($80.00). Notwithstanding the definition 13 in subsection (4) of this section, school buildings that are less than one (1) 14 year old on the first day of school shall not be used in the replacement value 15 calculation. The joint finance-appropriations committee shall annually review 16 the replacement value per square foot when setting appropriations for the edu- 17 cational support program, and may make adjustments to this figure as neces- 18 sary. School districts shall submit the following to the state department of 19 education by not later than December 1: 20 (a) The number of square feet of school building floor space; and 21 (b) The funds and fund sourcesdeposited into the school district'sallo- 22 cated for school building maintenancefundandthe fund balanceany unex- 23 pended allocations carried forward fromtheprior fiscal years; and 24 (c) The projects on which moneys from the school district's school build- 25 ing maintenancefundallocation were expended, and the amount and catego- 26 ries of expenditures;from the fund;and 27 (d) The planned uses ofmoneys inthe school district's school building 28 maintenancefundallocation. 29 The state department of education shall transmit a summary of such reports to 30 the legislature by not later than January 15 of the following year. 31 (4) For the purposes of this section: 32 (a) "School building" means buildings that are owned by the school dis- 33 trict or leased by the school district through a lease-purchase agreement 34 and are regularly occupied by students. 35 (b) "School district" means a school district or public charter school. 36 (c) "Annually" means each fiscal year. 37 SECTION 2. That Section 39-8011, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby 38 amended to read as follows: 39 39-8011. VIOLATIONS. (1) If a school district, the district superintend- 40 ent, principal, board of trustees, or other person in charge willfully vio- 41 lates the provisions of this chapter, the state superintendent of public 42 instruction shall withhold such ensuing apportionments as are necessary to 43 make repairs to abate the identified imminent safety hazard or serious safety 44 hazard. Withheld funds, not to exceed one and one-half percent (1 1/2%) of the 45 district's appropriation, shall be disbursed only to pay for such repairs. 46 (2) If the funds that would be raised over two (2) fiscal years from 47 applying the provisions of subsection (1) of this section are insufficient, in 48 combination with all moneys that will be available in the district's school 49 building maintenancefundallocation for the same period, to provide suffi- 50 cient moneys to abate the identified imminent or serious safety hazard, then 51 the administrator shall submit an application to abate said hazard to the 52 Idaho public school facilities cooperative funding program panel pursuant to 53 section 33-909, Idaho Code. 3 1 (3) It is a misdemeanor to remove, without permission of the administra- 2 tor, a notice or order posted pursuant to this chapter. 3 SECTION 3. An emergency existing therefor, which emergency is hereby 4 declared to exist, this act shall be in full force and effect on and after its 5 passage and approval, and retroactively to July 1, 2006.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE RS 16739C1 This legislation is a follow-up to HB 743, which was passed by the 2006 Legislature in order to meet the state's constitutional mandate to provide for safe school facilities. The purpose of this legislation is to make the school maintenance requirements of HB 743 easier for school districts to implement. To this end, the bill: 1) Makes the provisions easier for school district accounting staff by providing that districts must make an allocation for building maintenance, rather than establish a separate maintenance fund. 2) Permits districts to spend allocated maintenance money outside the school building, if it is spent on certain safety hazards. 3) Allows any maintenance spending above 4% of the replacement value district school buildings to be carried forward as a credit for future fiscal years, and applied against the 2% minimum allocation requirement. 4) Excludes square footage of school buildings that are less than a year old from the maintenance allocation requirement (under warrantee for first year). FISCAL NOTE No fiscal impact to the state. The 4% credit feature may ease the building maintenance requirements for districts that spend maintenance money on an irregular schedule. Contact Name: Rep. Lawerence Denney, Scott Bedke Phone: (208) 332-1000 Senator Shawn Keough, Senator Curt McKenzie STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE H 183