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AZ HB2064
Bill
Status
1/19/2016
Primary Sponsor
Douglas Coleman
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AI Summary
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Amends Arizona Revised Statutes Section 15-2402 regarding Arizona empowerment scholarship accounts to modify the funding calculation for qualified students.
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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."
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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.
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Makes technical corrections including changing "per cent" to "percent" and "curriculum" to "curricula" throughout the statute.
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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