House of Representatives

HB 2532

experimental schools; square footage exemption

Sponsors: Representative Knaperek

X	Committee on Appropriations
	Caucus and COW
	Third Read
	As Passed the House

HB 2532 exempts experimental schools from the School Facilities Board (SFB) minimum square footage adequacy requirements.

History

The SFB provides funding to school districts for new construction when existing school facilities require more pupil space. In determining space requirements, the SFB refers to the minimum square footage per pupil guidelines established for schools in A.R.S. 15-2011. The SFB is allowed to modify both the square footage requirements and the amount of monies required to cure a square footage deficiency for extraordinary circumstances. Extraordinary circumstances are defined in statute as the number of pupils served by the district, geographical factors and alternative grade configurations. In measuring the square footage per pupil adequacy requirement, the SFB uses the most recent 100^th day average daily membership, a square footage estimate and considers all total space available in a school district.

Provisions

· Excludes the square footage of experimental schools established by a common school district and a union high school district, in conjunction with a community college district, from the SFB’s minimum adequate gross square footage requirements with the following criteria:

· The school was constructed on former state trust land

· The school was constructed within five years of the sale of the state trust land.

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· 45th Legislature

· Second Regular Session 2 January 30, 2002

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