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AZ HB2064

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/19/2016

Primary Sponsor

Douglas Coleman

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Origin

House of Representatives

Fifty-second Legislature - Second Regular Session (2016)

AI Summary

  • Amends Arizona Revised Statutes Section 15-2402 regarding Arizona empowerment scholarship accounts to modify the funding calculation for qualified students.

  • Changes the funding transferred to empowerment scholarship accounts from "the sum of the base support level and additional assistance prescribed in sections 15-185 and 15-943" to a more general reference to "funding that would have been received by the school district where that student resides."

  • Maintains the 90 percent funding transfer to empowerment scholarship accounts and 5 percent retained by the department of education, with 1 percent transferred to the state treasurer, but clarifies the funding amount basis.

  • Makes technical corrections including changing "per cent" to "percent" and "curriculum" to "curricula" throughout the statute.

  • Preserves all existing eligibility requirements, allowable uses of funds, and renewal procedures for empowerment scholarship accounts.

Legislative Description

Empowerment scholarships; pupil funding amount

Last Action

Referred to House WM Committee

1/20/2016

Full Bill Text

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