SC H3352

Legislative Description

Allow Local School Districts And Special Schools To Transfer Certain Funds Among Appropriated Revenues, Education Improvement Act Funds, Education Lottery Act Funds, And Funds Received From The Children's Education Endowment Fund In Order To Ensure The Delivery Of Academic And Arts Instruction During The 2008-2009 And 2009-2010 Fiscal Years, And To Provide That A School District May Not Transfer Funds Required For Debt Service Or Bonded Indebtedness; To Allow School Districts For Fiscal Years 2008-2009 And 2009-2010 To Suspend Certain Professional Staffing Ratios And Expenditure Regulations, To Delay The Date That Teacher Contracts Are Issued, To Negotiate Salaries For Certain Retired Teachers Below The School District Salary Schedule, And To Furlough Teachers For Up To Five Noninstructional Days, Provided That District Administrators Are Furloughed For Twice The Number Of Days; To Provide Further Measures School Districts And Education-related Entities Are Encouraged To Take To Maximize Resources; To Provide District Reporting Requirements For Cost-saving Measures Undertaken By The District; To Require School Districts To Provide To Public Charter Schools Pupil Allocation For Each Categorical Program Before Implementing These Flexibility Provisions; To Suspend Certain Formative Assessments, To Allow School Districts To Suspend Textbook Adoptions, And To Allow School Districts To Purchase The Most Economical Type Of Bus Fuel For The 2008-2009 And 2009-2010 Fiscal Years; To Require School Districts For The 2009-2010 Fiscal Year To Utilize At Least Sixty-five Percent Of Its Per Pupil Expenditures Within Provided Categories Of Instruction With Certain Conditions, And To Provide Reporting Requirements; To Require School Districts For The 2009-2010 Fiscal Year To Maintain A Transaction Register That Records Certain Expended Funds, To Provide What The Register Must Include, To Require School Districts To Publish Their Credit Card Statements On Their Websites, And To Require The Comptroller General To Publish On Its Website Credit Card Information Of School Districts That Do Not Maintain Their Own Websites; And To Suspend Section 59-21-1030 Of The 1976 Code For The 2008-2009 And 2009-2010 Fiscal Years. - Ratified Title

Last Action

Committee Referrals