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ID H0653

Bill

Status

Engrossed

2/28/2022

Primary Sponsor

Education Committee

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Origin

House of Representatives

2022 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requires school districts to include a detailed disclosure on ballots for supplemental levy elections, listing specific purposes for levy revenues and approximate amounts allocated to each purpose, placed immediately above the ballot question.

  • Makes ballot questions for supplemental levies binding only if accompanied by the required disclosure in simple, understandable language that gives electors fair notice of intended uses.

  • Allows courts to declare ballot outcomes invalid and award court costs and fees if school districts fail to comply with disclosure requirements, with complaints allowed at any time a levy is in effect.

  • Requires school districts to use supplemental levy revenues only for purposes identified in the disclosure, with an annual published summary comparing actual expenditures to the original ballot disclosure.

  • Permits school district boards to reallocate up to 10 percent of levy revenues to other purposes or between identified purposes at noticed public meetings where public testimony is required, with no vote needed if reallocation is less than 10 percent.

Legislative Description

Adds to existing law to provide that a ballot question for a supplemental levy must be accompanied by a disclosure about the purposes for which the levy revenues will be used and to provide that school districts must use levy revenues for the purposes identified in the disclosure.

SCHOOL LEVIES

Last Action

Introduced, read first time; referred to: State Affairs

3/1/2022

Committee Referrals

State Affairs3/1/2022
Education2/17/2022

Full Bill Text

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