House of Representatives

HB 2532

experimental schools; square footage exemption

Sponsors: Representative Knaperek

 

DP

Committee on Appropriations

DPA

Caucus and COW

X

Third Read

 

 

As Passed the House

 

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

 

Current Status

HB 2532 was amended in the Committee of the Whole to add to and expressly outline the requirements for exclusion of the square footage of an experimental school.

 

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 100th 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.

 

Amendments

HB 2532 was amended in the Committee of the Whole as follows:

§         States that the following requirements must be met for the School Facilities Board to exclude the square footage of an experimental school that is established by a common school district and a union high school district in conjunction with a community college district:

§         The experimental school is located on land that was formerly designated as state trust land

§         The applicable school districts have annexed the land where the experimental school is constructed

§         The districts have entered into an intergovernmental agreement to construct and operate the experimental school.

§         The experimental school is constructed within five years of the sale of the state trust land.

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§         45th Legislature                       

§         Second Regular Session            2          February 18, 2002

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