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                                            (REPRINTED WITH ADOPTED AMENDMENTS)

 

Senate Bill No. 417–Senator Schneider

 

March 19, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Human Resources and Facilities

 

SUMMARY—Makes appropriation to state distributive school account to ensure that amount of money expended per pupil meets or exceeds national average. (BDR S‑968)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: Yes.

                                    Effect on the State: Yes.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to public education; making an appropriation to the state distributive school account to ensure that the amount of money expended per pupil meets or exceeds the national average; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

   Whereas, An effective public school system relies significantly upon the financial support of both state and local governments; and

   Whereas, The Nevada Plan seeks to ensure that each Nevada child has a reasonably equal educational opportunity by setting for the state’s financial obligation for education as the difference between the school district basic support guarantee and the local funds available for public schools; and

   Whereas, The costs incurred by the school districts in this state to provide educational services and programs to pupils enrolled in public schools continue to rise, and meeting those substantial costs requires a strong partnership between both state and local governments that includes significant financial contribution by both; and

   Whereas, Current estimates indicate that the statewide average amount of money expended per pupil, by state and local governments combined, is approximately $900 below the most current national average for the  total amount of money expended, by state and local governments combined, per pupil in kindergarten through grade 12; and

   Whereas, Current estimates indicate that approximately 340,000 pupils are enrolled in public schools in this state; now, therefore,

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1    Section 1. 1. There is hereby appropriated from the state general

1-2  fund to the state distributive school account:

 

2-1  For the fiscal year 2001-2002........ $306,000,000

2-2  For the fiscal year 2002-2003........ $306,000,000

2-3    2.  The money appropriated by subsection 1 must be added to the

2-4  money that is otherwise allocated to school districts from the state

2-5  distributive school account in the 2001-2003 biennium to ensure that the

2-6  total amount of money expended per pupil in each fiscal year of the 2001-

2-7  2003 biennium is equal to or exceeds the most current national average for

2-8  the total amount of money expended, by state and local governments

2-9  combined, per pupil in kindergarten through grade 12.

2-10    Sec.  2.  This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

 

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