Introduced
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To provide a "template" or "place holder" for a potential supplemental multi-section school aid budget for the 2004 and 2005 fiscal years. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include some.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the bill pass.
Substitute offered
To provide a "place holder" bill for potential action on closing a deficit in the School Aid Fund with money from the General Fund. See Senate-passed bill for details.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 37 to 0 (details)
To provide a "place holder" bill for potential action on closing a deficit in the School Aid Fund with money from the General Fund. See Senate-passed bill for details. This came a day before a revenue estimating conference projected a $113.2 million deficit in the 2004-2005 School Aid Fund.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Substitute offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with one that would transfer approximately $20 million from the state General Fund to cover a shortfall in the Fiscal Year 2003-2004 School Aid Fund.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 105 to 0 (details)
To transfer approximately $20 million from the state General Fund to cover a School Aid Fund shortfall for the Fiscal Year 2003-2004 that ended Sept. 30, 2004. The bill does not address a $113.2 million deficit in the current FY 2004-2005 School Aid Fund.
Substitute offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with one that authorizes the transfer of another $99.5 million from the General Fund to the School Aid Fund, so as to also close an FY 2004-2005 deficit in the latter. The entire transfer would now be $119.5 million. The substitute also prohibits an Intermediate School District "double dipping" special education funding scheme (see House-passed bill for details).
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To make the ISD "double dipping" scheme prohibition in the bill prospective only, so that three ISDs now using the scheme would not lose the extra money in the current school year.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 102 to 7 (details)
To authorize the transfer of $119.5 million from the General Fund to the School Aid Fund, to close an FY 2003-2004 and an FY 2004-2005 deficit in the latter. Also, to prohibit an Intermediate School District (ISD) "double dipping" scheme, in which certain special education staff are employed by both the ISD and the regular school district. This "shared-employment" allows the ISD (but not the staffers) to get more state money.
Passed in the Senate 37 to 0 (details)
