Introduced
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To provide a “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year 2013-2014 K-12 School Aid budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
To adopt a version of this budget that expresses the fiscal and policy preferences of the Republican-majority in the Senate on various spending details.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add $83.2 million in spending for school district "technology improvements" related to proposed "computer adaptive" tests, with the money coming from the state rainy day fund.
The amendment failed 14 to 22 (details)
Amendment offered
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To not use tax revenues earmarked to the state School Aid Fund in the university and community college budgets, but instead use non-earmarked revenue. Although the state constitution explicitly authorizes using SAF money for higher education, the public school establishment contends that the 1994 Proposal A initiative earmarking a sales tax increase to the SAF means it can only be used for K-12 schools.
The amendment failed 18 to 18 (details)
Amendment offered
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To strip out a provision increasing the amount of online courses students could take in public schools.
The amendment failed 11 to 24 (details)
Amendment offered
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To strip out a provision allocating $46 million to districts on the basis of their adopting certain specified "best practices," and instead distribute the money on a per-pupil basis.
The amendment failed 18 to 16 (details)
Amendment offered
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To strip out a provision authorizing a technology-based certification program in collaboration with a private information technology company.
The amendment passed 26 to 8 (details)
Amendment offered
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To eliminate use of a "blended" pupil count formula that bases school district grants partly on the number of students they had in the previous school year.
The amendment failed 10 to 24 (details)
Amendment offered
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To strip out $18 million proposed for adopting "computer adaptive" tests, and use this to increase spending on adult education programs.
The amendment failed 12 to 23 (details)
Motion to reconsider
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The vote by which the fifth set of amendments offered by Senator Hopgood were not adopted.
The motion failed 12 to 23 (details)
Amendment offered
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To tie-bar the bill to Senate Bill 295, meaning this bill cannot become law unless that one does also. SB 290 would allow school districts to use a “sinking fund” property tax of up to 5 mills to buy or fix school buses, computers and software, or security equipment.
The amendment failed 14 to 22 (details)
Amendment offered
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To revise funding related to "catching up" on unfunded liabilities in school employee pension system. The amendment essentially distributes "catch up" money to districts on the basis of their payroll, rather than giving individual school districts higher per-pupil foundation grants using a formula that would allocate more for lower-spending districts.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To strip out a provision allocating more money to lower-spending school districts. A related amendment allocates more money to districts on the basis of payroll, and in intended to mitigate higher pension costs.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To increase funding for districts with a higher proportion of students from low income households.
The amendment failed 14 to 22 (details)
Passed in the Senate 21 to 15 (details)
The Senate version of the K-12 school aid budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct 1, 2013. It would appropriate $13.225 billion for K-12 public schools, compared to $12.944 billion this year.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
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To adopt a version of the budget that contains no appropriations, intended to launch negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 60 to 48 (details)
To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations. This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.
Failed in the Senate 0 to 38 (details)
To concur with the House-passed version of the bill. The vote sends the measure to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.
Received
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
