Bill Tracker



Bill Tracker

(Revised 2/9/10)

3:00 P.M.

Please note this bill tracker is prepared by Arizona State Board for Charter Schools staff on behalf of the Board to provide the Board with a brief synopsis of certain legislation. This bill tracker does not reflect a comprehensive list of education bills being considered during this legislative session. For the text of any of these bills and the bill summaries prepared by legislative staff, please visit the Arizona State Legislature’s website at .

|Bill No. | | | | |

|(sponsor) |Short Title, Summary |Committee(s) |Last Action |Comments |

|HB 2070 |School tax credit; fees; limitation |WM |1/11 1st read | |

|(Hendrix) |Expands the public school tax credit to include fees paid or contributions|Ed |1/12 2nd read | |

| |made to a public school for “tutoring programs”, which is defined. The |Rules |1/21 DPA [WM] | |

| |bill also specifies that a public school may use up to $500 per student of| | | |

| |received fees or contributions for students’ character education programs | | | |

| |or extracurricular activities. | | | |

| | | | | |

| |AMENDED IN WM COMMITTEE – The amendment clarifies that beginning with the | | | |

| |2010-2011 school year, a public school that receives fees or cash | | | |

| |contributions for students’ character education programs or | | | |

| |extracurricular activities shall not spend more than a total of $500 per | | | |

| |school year from the contributions received for character education | | | |

| |programs or extracurricular activities per student enrolled in those | | | |

| |programs. Additionally, it includes a retroactivity clause to taxable ears| | | |

| |beginning from and after December 31, 2009. | | | |

|HB 2077 |Professional teaching standards board |Ed |1/12 1st read | |

|(Schapira) |Establishes a professional teaching standards board and transfers |Approps |1/13 2nd read | |

| |responsibility from SBE to the new board. Also includes technical changes|Rules | | |

| |and clarification for to 15-512 re: contractor fingerprinting. | | | |

|HB 2078 |Schools; American competitiveness project fund |Ed |1/12 1st read | |

|(Schapira) |Expands the list of academic programs approved for schools to receive |Rules |1/13 2nd read | |

| |money from the American Competitiveness Project Fund to include academic | |1/14 DP [Ed] | |

| |programs emphasizing philosophy. | |2/3 C&P [Rules] | |

| | | |2/3 Consent calendar | |

|HB 2129 |Education; meetings; technical correction | |2/8 1st read | |

|(Crandall) |Pertains to meetings of State Board of Education | |2/8 DPA/SE [Ed] | |

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| |AMENDED IN ED COMMITTEE – The strike-everything amendment pertains to the | | | |

| |Arizona Online Instruction (AOI) program and includes the following | | | |

| |provisions: | | | |

| |Removes the requirement that a pupil enrolled in AOI is considered | | | |

| |full-time if the pupil’s average instructional hours as reported in the | | | |

| |daily log exceed 119 minutes for kindergarten programs, 238 minutes for | | | |

| |1st through 3rd grades, 297 minutes for 4th through 6th grades, 356 | | | |

| |minutes for 7th and 8th grades and 300 minutes for 9th through 12th | | | |

| |grades. | | | |

| |Removes the requirement that a pupil enrolled in AOI will be considered | | | |

| |part-time if the pupil’s average instructional hours as reported in the | | | |

| |daily log are less than the hours required for a full-time pupil. | | | |

| |Defines “full-time student” as: | | | |

| |For students enrolled in AOI, a student who is at least 6 years old prior | | | |

| |to January 1 of a school year, who has not graduated fro the highest grade| | | |

| |taught in the school and who is regularly enrolled in a course of study | | | |

| |required by the SBE which meets at least 890 hours, except for 7th and 8th| | | |

| |grade students or ungraded students at least 12, but under 14 years of age| | | |

| |by September 1, who must be enrolled in an instructional program that | | | |

| |meets at least 1,068 hours. | | | |

| |For high schools, a student not graduated from the highest grade taught in| | | |

| |a school district, or an ungraded student at least 14 years of age by | | | |

| |September 1, and enrolled in at least a full-time instructional program of| | | |

| |subjects that count toward graduation as defined by the SBE in a | | | |

| |recognized high school that meets at least 900 hours that will not be | | | |

| |counted more than once for the computation of average daily membership. | | | |

| |Defines “part-time student” as, for the purposes of funding, any student | | | |

| |who is enrolled in a program that is funded at 85 percent of the base | | | |

| |support level that would be calculated for that pupil if that pupil were | | | |

| |enrolled as a part-time student in a school district or charter school | | | |

| |that does not participate in AOI. | | | |

|HB 2181 |Schools; SAIS data; penalty |Ed |1/20 1st read | |

|(Seel) |Up to 10% withholding of state monies if more than 15% of required data |Rules |1/21 2nd read | |

| |submissions are incomplete or inaccurate. | | | |

|HB 2182 |School pupils; lawful status; state aid |Ed |1/20 1st read | |

|(Seel) |ADM and ADA determinations to exclude children whose parents are unable to|Approps |1/21 2nd read | |

| |prove the child’s lawful presence in US. |Rules | | |

|HB 2183 |School year; 180 days |Ed |1/20 1st read | |

|(Seel) | |Rules |1/21 2nd read | |

|HB 2184 |Schools; 180 days; conforming changes |Ed |1/20 1st read | |

|(Seel) | |Rules |1/21 2nd read | |

|HB 2185 |High school pupils; attendance hours |Ed |1/20 1st read | |

|(Seel) | |Rules |1/21 2nd read | |

|HB 2186 |High school students; instructional hours |Ed |1/20 1st read | |

|(Seel) | |Rules |1/21 2nd read | |

|HB 2200 |School finance; average daily attendance |Ed |1/20 1st read | |

|(Seel) |Among its many provisions: |Approps |1/21 2nd read | |

| |Redefines “average daily attendance” as the actual average daily |Rules |2/8 Failed [Ed] | |

| |attendance of fractional students and full-time students through the first| | | |

| |180 days in session. | | | |

| |Specifies that for high school pupils, daily attendance is calculated for | | | |

| |a full-time student by dividing the number of hours attended by the number| | | |

| |of hours scheduled for a full-time instructional program, and that this | | | |

| |amount shall be reduced by ¼, ½ or ¾ for part-time students, as | | | |

| |applicable. | | | |

| |Deletes the definition of and statutory references to average daily | | | |

| |membership. | | | |

| |Amends the definition of fractional students for common schools. | | | |

| |Removes ungraded schools in which the pupil is at least 14 years of age by| | | |

| |September 1 as being equivalent to high school in the definition of high | | | |

| |school attendance. | | | |

| |Repeals A.R.S. §15-902 relating to determination of student count and | | | |

| |A.R.S. §15-902.02 relating to optional 200 day average daily membership | | | |

| |calculation. | | | |

|HB 2209 |Public meetings; notices |Com |1/19 1st read | |

|(Reagan: Tobin) |Among its many provisions, requires Arizona public bodies, including |Rules |1/20 2nd read | |

| |charter schools, to: 1) conspicuously post on their website a statement | |1/20 DPA [Com] | |

| |indicating where all public notices of their meetings will be posted | | | |

| |(rather than filing this with the Secretary of State); and 2) post all | | | |

| |public meeting notices on their website. Further, it specifies that all | | | |

| |state agencies must annually publish in the register, state directory and | | | |

| |a telephone directory for Maricopa County the name or names of the | | | |

| |employee(s) designated to provide agency assistance to members of the | | | |

| |public. (Current law only requires this of agencies that employ more than | | | |

| |100 people.) | | | |

| | | | | |

| |AMENDED IN COM COMMITTEE – The amendment allows public bodies of cities | | | |

| |and towns the option of posting the meeting notice location statement on | | | |

| |their own website or an association of cities and towns website. | | | |

|HB 2235 |School personnel; employment information; investigations |Ed |1/20 1st read | |

|(Kavanagh: Jones) |Among its provisions, the bill: |Rules |1/21 2nd read | |

| |Requires charter schools to submit detailed employment information to the | |2/8 DP [Ed] | |

| |ADE for all charter school personnel who are required to be fingerprinted | | | |

| |under charter school employment law. | | | |

| |Requires the SBE to provide information, records or reports relating to | | | |

| |the investigation of a certificate holder to any school or school district| | | |

| |that currently employs the certificate holder or is considering employing | | | |

| |the certificate holder. | | | |

| |Directs the ADE to maintain a database of information on certificated | | | |

| |persons who are under investigation for alleged immoral or unprofessional | | | |

| |conduct and must make the information available to schools and school | | | |

| |districts. | | | |

| |Mandates that schools and school districts access this database at least | | | |

| |once per year to determine whether certificated persons employed at the | | | |

| |school or by the school district are currently under investigation for | | | |

| |alleged immoral or unprofessional conduct. | | | |

| |Mandates that schools or school districts access this database before | | | |

| |making an offer of employment to a certificate holder to determine whether| | | |

| |the holder is currently under investigation for alleged immoral or | | | |

| |unprofessional conduct. | | | |

| |Designates all information, records or reports received by any school or | | | |

| |school district from this database as confidential, not part of the public| | | |

| |record and to be used for employment purposes only. | | | |

|HB 2239 |Teachers; evaluations; student performance |Ed |1/20 1st read | |

|(Hendrix) |Among its provisions, the bill establishes a required system for the |Rules |1/21 2nd read | |

| |evaluation of the performance of charter school teachers. | | | |

|HB 2281 |Schools; prohibited courses; discipline |Ed |1/20 1st read | |

|(Montenegro, Gowan, Seel,| |Gov |1/21 2nd read | |

|Stevens: Antenori, | |Rules | | |

|Goodale, Weiers JP) | | | | |

|HB 2313 |ELL; Native American languages; exception |Ed |1/19 1st read | |

|(Rep. Deschene, Fleming, | |Approps |1/20 2nd read | |

|Young Wright, Sen. Hale: | |Rules | | |

|Rep. Campbell CL, | | | | |

|Patterson, Tovar) | | | | |

|HB 2329 |Schools; AIMS test; additional subjects |Ed |1/21 1st read | |

|(Ash) | |Rules |1/25 2nd read | |

|HB 2385 |Schools; ADM calculation |Ed |1/25 1st read | |

|(Boone) |Deletes the definition of and statutory references to “average daily |Approps |1/26 2nd read | |

| |attendance” and modifies the definition of “average daily membership” |Rules |2/1 DPA [Ed] | |

| |(ADM) to the total enrollment of the fractional students and full-time | | | |

| |students who are enrolled on the 30th, 60th and 90th days in session, | | | |

| |divided by three. | | | |

| | | | | |

| |AMENDED IN ED COMMITTEE – The amendment modifies the definition of ADM to | | | |

| |include a fourth date on the 120th day in session and to divide by four | | | |

| |instead of three. | | | |

|HB 2408 |Schools; mandatory daily recess |Ed |1/25 1st read | |

|(Antenori, Farley, | |Rules |1/26 2nd read | |

|Fleming, Gowan, Heinz, | | | | |

|Sinema: Ableser, Goodale,| | | | |

|Jones, Patterson, | | | | |

|Stevens, Weiers JP) | | | | |

|HB 2413 |Digital curriculum institute |Ed |1/19 1st read | |

|(Crandall) | |Rules |1/20 2nd read | |

|HB 2487 |Schools; teachers; employment retention |PERER |1/25 1st read | |

|(Pancrazi, Patterson, | |Ed |1/26 2nd read | |

|Schapira, Young Wright: | |Rules | | |

|Ableser, Campbell CH, | | | | |

|Campbell CL, Fleming) | | | | |

|HB 2514 |Charter schools; food; tax exemption |WM |1/20 1st read | |

|(Murphy) |Provides charter schools the same transaction privilege tax and use tax |Rules |1/21 2nd read | |

| |exemption as school districts for food and drink prepared and served for | |1/21 DP [WM] | |

| |consumption on school premises during school hours. | | | |

|HB 2537 |Schools; ELL models; exemption |Ed |1/25 1st read | |

|(Rep. Gowan, Antenori, |Among its many provisions, it requires each school district governing |Rules |1/26 2nd read | |

|Crandall, Driggs: Barnes,|board or each charter school governing body to select one or more English | |2/1 DP [Ed] | |

|Burges, Goodale, Mason, |Language Learners Task Force approved models for English immersion | | | |

|Montenegro, Pratt, Seel, |implementation on a school by school basis, except as otherwise provided | | | |

|Stevens, Weiers JP, Sen. |by the act. It also allows district schools and charter schools to be | | | |

|Melvin, Pearce R) |exempt from the requirements of the Task Force approved models if the | | | |

| |school demonstrates to ADE that its English language learners are meeting | | | |

| |or exceeding measurable achievement objectives. | | | |

|HB 2555 |Full-day kindergarten; repeal |Ed |1/21 1st read | |

|(Mason: Ash, Seel) | |Approps |1/25 2nd read | |

| | |Rules | | |

|HB 2556 |Schools; ADE; reduction; reform |Ed |1/21 1st read | |

|(Mason) |Among its many provisions, the bill reduces, in addition to any other |Approps |1/25 2nd read | |

| |reduction made to ADE for FY 2010-2011, the number of full-time equivalent|Rules |2/8 Held [Ed] | |

| |employees of ADE to no more than 70. In addition to these 70 employees, | | | |

| |the ADE may employ up to an additional 150 FTE whose primary function is | | | |

| |to receive, manage and distribute federal monies. | | | |

|HB 2557 |Schools; NCLB; opt-out |Ed |1/21 1st read | |

|(Mason, Seel) | |Rules |1/25 2nd read | |

|HB 2597 |Tax credits; deductions; exemptions; sunset |WM |1/28 1st read | |

|(Rep. Chabin, Meza: | |Rules |2/1 2nd read | |

|Antenori, Ash, Court, | | | | |

|Crandall, Crump, Driggs, | | | | |

|Goodale, Jones, | | | | |

|Konopnicki, Montenegro, | | | | |

|Weiers JP, Sen. Paton, | | | | |

|Pierce S) | | | | |

|HB 2613 |Tax credit; schools; classroom materials |Ed |1/28 1st read | |

|(Crandall) |Among its provisions, the bill expands the public school tax credit to |WM |2/1 2nd read | |

| |claim fees paid or contributions made for textbooks, classroom technology |Rules |2/8 DPA [Ed] | |

| |or instruction materials in taxable years ending before December 31, 2013.| | | |

| |Additionally, it requires public school donation reports to categorize the| | | |

| |total dollar amount of fees and contributions spent during the previous | | | |

| |calendar year by specific extracurricular activity, character education | | | |

| |program or textbooks, classroom technology and instruction materials. | | | |

| |Further, it removes the requirement that in-state or out-of-state trips be| | | |

| |solely for competitive events to qualify as extracurricular activities and| | | |

| |removes the provision that extracurricular activities cannot include | | | |

| |senior trips or events that are considered recreational, amusement or | | | |

| |tourist activities. | | | |

| | | | | |

| |AMENDED IN ED COMMITTEE | | | |

|HB 2681 |Compulsory attendance; age; increase | | | |

|(Schapira) | | | | |

|HB 2722 |Charter schools; funding; nonresidents | | | |

|(Goodale, Court, | | | | |

|Crandall: McLain) | | | | |

|HB 2725 |Education; omnibus | | | |

|(Court, Ash, Crandall, |Among its many provisions, the bill: | | | |

|Pratt, Young Wright: |Allows the ASBCS to use the services of the Auditor General. | | | |

|Goodale, Jones, Waters, |Permits a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona Board of | | | |

|Williams) |Regents, a community college district, a city, a town or a private | | | |

| |postsecondary educational institution to sponsor a charter school. | | | |

| |Requires the charter school’s governing body to either mail to the parent | | | |

| |or guardian of each pupil enrolled at the charter school or post on the | | | |

| |charter school’s website a copy of the proposed budget or summary of the | | | |

| |proposed budget and a notice of the hearing and meeting. This must occur | | | |

| |at least 10 days before a public hearing and governing body meeting on a | | | |

| |charter school’s proposed budget. If the charter school does not maintain | | | |

| |its own website, the governing body may transmit a copy of its proposed | | | |

| |budget and notice to ADE for posting on ADE’s website. | | | |

| |Requires the proposed budget and summary to include the percentage of the | | | |

| |proposed increase or decrease in each budget category as compared to the | | | |

| |budget for the current year. | | | |

| |Requires the governing body to file an affidavit with the Superintendent | | | |

| |of Public Instruction within 30 days after it posts or mails the proposed | | | |

| |budget and notice. | | | |

| |Requires each charter school to post a copy of its adopted budget on the | | | |

| |charter’s website if the charter school maintains a website. If the | | | |

| |charter school does not maintain a website, the charter school shall | | | |

| |transmit a copy of its adopted budget to ADE for posting on ADE’s website.| | | |

|HB 2731 |High schools; graduation; board examinations | | | |

|(Rep. Crandall, Ash, |Among its many provisions, the bill: | | | |

|Court, Driggs, Pratt, |Establishes a Board Examination System for high school students that | | | |

|Schapira, Young Wright, |supports a “move on when ready” process. | | | |

|Sen. Huppenthal: Rep. |Requires the Charter Board to assist pupils from a non-participating | | | |

|Adams, Goodale, Jones, |charter school to identify a location for the administration of the exams.| | | |

|Kavanagh, Lujan, | | | | |

|McComish, McLain, Meyer, | | | | |

|Pancrazi, Tobin, Waters) | | | | |

|HB 2732 |Schools; third grade retention | | | |

|(Rep. Crandall, Ash, |Among its many provisions, the bill: | | | |

|Court, Driggs, Pratt: |States that the competency requirements prescribed by the SBE for the | | | |

|Adams, Goodale, Jones, |promotion of pupils from third grade shall include: | | | |

|McComish, McLain, |A requirement that a pupil not be promoted from the 3rd grade if the pupil| | | |

|Pancrazi, Tobin, Sen. |obtains a score on the reading portion of the AIMS test, or a successor | | | |

|Huppenthal) |test, that demonstrates that the pupil is reading far below the 3rd grade | | | |

| |level. | | | |

| |A mechanism to allow a school district governing board to promote a pupil | | | |

| |from the 3rd grade who obtains a score that demonstrates that the pupil is| | | |

| |reading far below the 3rd grade level for any of five specified good cause| | | |

| |exemptions. | | | |

| |Intervention and remedial strategies developed by the SBE for pupils who | | | |

| |are not promoted from the 3rd grade. A school district governing board | | | |

| |shall offer at least 3 of the intervention and remedial strategies | | | |

| |developed by the SBE. The pupil’s parent or guardian shall choose the | | | |

| |intervention and remedial strategies that will be provided to the pupil. | | | |

| |The bill specifies certain intervention and remedial strategies that the | | | |

| |SBE’s strategies must include. | | | |

| |Requires the SBE to provide for universal screening of pupils in preschool| | | |

| |programs, kindergarten programs and grades one through three that is | | | |

| |designed to identify pupils who have reading deficiencies. | | | |

| |Establishes the Task Force on Reading Assessment. The Task Force shall: a)| | | |

| |examine the experiences and outcomes of other states that have adopted | | | |

| |reading tests that are required for the promotion of pupils from 3rd | | | |

| |grade; b) develop methodologies, models and other recommendations for an | | | |

| |assessment that will measure pupils’ reading abilities in 1st and 2nd | | | |

| |grade; and c) submit a written report that contains the Task Force’s | | | |

| |findings and recommendations on or before January 15, 2011. | | | |

|HB 2733 |Department of education; data collection | | | |

|(Rep. Crandall, Ash, |Among its many provisions, the bill: | | | |

|Court, Driggs, Pratt: |On or before October 31, 2011, requires the Superintendent of Public | | | |

|Adams, Goodale, Jones, |Instruction (SPI) to enter into a contract for a yet unspecified number of| | | |

|McComish, McLain, Meyer, |years with a public or private entity to administer all the data | | | |

|Tobin, Waters, Sen. |collection, compilation and reporting duties of the ADE, SBE, ASBCS, | | | |

|Huppenthal) |School Facilities Board, Arizona State School for the Deaf and the Blind, | | | |

| |the Arizona Board of Regents and the community college districts. | | | |

| |Beginning, January 1, 2012, requires the contract to require the | | | |

| |contractor to: 1) successfully attain performance goals prescribed by the | | | |

| |SPI and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee relating to improvement of | | | |

| |the data collection, compilation and reporting duties prescribed in Title | | | |

| |15; and 2) develop and maintain a state of the art system that is | | | |

| |accessible through commonly used Internet web browsers to carry out the | | | |

| |data collection. | | | |

| |Specifies various requirements related to the contractor qualifications, | | | |

| |awarding of the contract and other related issues. | | | |

| |Establishes the Task Force on Data Privatization and requires the Task | | | |

| |Force to: a) design a request for proposals form to be used by ADE to | | | |

| |solicit proposals from private entities to carry out the above provisions | | | |

| |and b) submit the request for proposals form to ADE by March 31, 2011. | | | |

|HB 2751 |School buses; seating charts | | | |

|(McGuire) | | | | |

|HB 2761 |Education budget; date of enactment | | | |

|(Waters, Patterson: | | | | |

|Campbell CH, Farley, | | | | |

|Garcia M, Meyer, | | | | |

|Schapira) | | | | |

|HB 2771 |High school graduation; citizenship exam | | | |

|(Driggs, Gowan: Antenori)| | | | |

|HB 2780 |Charter schools; omnibus | | | |

|(Young Wright, Ableser, |Among its many provisions, the bill: | | | |

|Campbell CL, Chabin, |Appropriates $500,000 in fiscal year 2010-2011 to the ASBCS to fund | | | |

|Tovar, Waters: Bradley, |personnel costs relating to the administrative oversight duties of the | | | |

|Campbell CH, Deschene, |ASBCS. | | | |

|Farley, Heinz, Meyer, |Requires the Auditor General to conduct performance audits of charter | | | |

|Patterson, Schapira) |schools and monitor charter schools to determine the percentage of every | | | |

| |dollar spent in the classroom by a charter school. The performance audits | | | |

| |and monitoring would be the same as the Auditor General currently does for| | | |

| |school districts. Annually, the Auditor General must select two charter | | | |

| |holders that operate multiple school sites and three charter holders that | | | |

| |operate single school sites. | | | |

| |Requires the charter school’s governing body to either mail to the parent | | | |

| |or guardian of each pupil enrolled at the charter school or post on the | | | |

| |charter school’s website a copy of the proposed budget or summary of the | | | |

| |proposed budget and a notice of the hearing and meeting. This must occur | | | |

| |at least 10 days before a public hearing and governing body meeting on a | | | |

| |charter school’s proposed budget. If the charter school does not maintain | | | |

| |its own website, the governing body may transmit a copy of its proposed | | | |

| |budget and notice to ADE for posting on ADE’s website. | | | |

| |Requires the proposed budget and summary to include the percentage of the | | | |

| |proposed increase or decrease in each budget category as compared to the | | | |

| |budget for the current year. | | | |

| |Requires the governing body to file an affidavit with the Superintendent | | | |

| |of Public Instruction within 30 days after it posts or mails the proposed | | | |

| |budget and notice. | | | |

| |Requires each charter school to post a copy of its adopted budget on the | | | |

| |charter’s website if the charter school maintains a website. If the | | | |

| |charter school does not maintain a website, the charter school shall | | | |

| |transmit a copy of its adopted budget to ADE for posting on ADE’s website.| | | |

| |Provides a short title for the act of “Public School Transparency and | | | |

| |Accountability Act”. | | | |

|HCR 2014 |NCLB; opt out |Ed |1/25 1st read | |

|(Mason, Seel) | |Rules |1/26 2nd read | |

|SB 1039 |Restructuring; school report cards |Ed |1/11 1st read | |

|(Huppenthal) |AS PASSED SENATE – Removes several items from inclusion on school’s annual|Rules |1/12 2nd read | |

| |report cards, removes the requirement for schools to distribute the report| |1/13 DPA [Ed] | |

| |card to parents and requires the schools to make the report cards | |1/19 PFC [Rules] | |

| |available to parents electronically. | |1/19 Y [Majority and Minority | |

| | | |caucuses] | |

| | | |1/21 DPA [COW] | |

| | | |1/28 Final read passed | |

| | | |1/28 Transmit to House | |

|SB 1040 |Schools; achievement profiles; MAP |Ed |1/11 1st read | |

|(Huppenthal) |AS PASSED SENATE – Requires the Arizona Department of Education to |Rules |1/12 2nd read | |

| |compute, using the Arizona Measure of Academic Progress, the extent of | |1/13 DP [Ed] | |

| |academic progress made by pupils at each school offering instruction in | |1/19 PFC [Rules] | |

| |nine through twelve or any combination of those grades. | |1/19 Y [Majority and Minority | |

| | | |caucuses] | |

| | | |1/19 Consent calendar | |

| | | |1/25 Final read passed | |

| | | |1/25 Transmit to House | |

|SB 1119 |Task force; K-3 accountability; assessments |Ed |1/19 1st read | |

|(Huppenthal: Allen S, |Establishes the Task Force on K-3 Accountability and Assessments at the |Rules |1/20 2nd read | |

|Gray L) |Arizona Department of Education and specifies the Task Force’s membership,| |1/20 DP [Ed] | |

| |which includes three charter school representatives. The bill requires the| | | |

| |Task Force to examine and evaluate best practices in accountability and | | | |

| |assessment measures for schools to use for kindergarten through grade | | | |

| |three and to conduct trial examinations of pupils in these grades. | | | |

|SB 1260 |School tax credits; temporary suspension |Fin |1/28 1st read | |

|(Cheuvront, Lopez: | |Ed |2/1 2nd read | |

|Landrum Taylor, McCune | |Rules | | |

|Davis) | | | | |

|SB 1263 |High schools; military recruiting; form |Ed |1/28 1st read | |

|(Paton) |Requires the release of student directory information by school districts |Rules |2/1 2nd read | |

| |and charter schools to individuals and entities providing information | |2/3 DPA [Ed] | |

| |relating to postsecondary opportunities to take place by October 31st of | | | |

| |each year. | | | |

| | | | | |

| |AMENDED IN ED COMMITTEE – The amendment adds being wrongfully denied | | | |

| |access to school grounds to the violations an individual may report to the| | | |

| |Arizona Department of Education. It also changes the requirement for ADE | | | |

| |to design and provide a consent form allowing pupils to consent to the | | | |

| |release of transcripts to apply to the release of directory information. | | | |

| |Further, it instructs school districts and charter schools to annually | | | |

| |distribute the form provided by ADE to students separately from any other | | | |

| |form. | | | |

|SB 1275 |Charter schools; sponsorship |Ed |1/28 1st read | |

|(Gray L) |Among its many provisions, permits a university under the jurisdiction of |Rules |2/1 2nd read | |

| |the Arizona Board of Regents, or a community college district or group of | |2/3 DP [Ed] | |

| |districts with more than 15,000 FTE students to sponsor a charter school. | | | |

| |Additionally, it limits the number of applications a public university, | | | |

| |community college district or group of community college districts may | | | |

| |approve to 2 for FY 2011, 3 for FY 2012 and 4 for FY 2013. | | | |

|SB 1281 |Charter schools; interscholastic activities |Ed |2/1 1st read | |

|(Huppenthal) |Requires a school district school to allow charter school students who |Rules |2/2 2nd read | |

| |reside within the district school’s attendance area to try out for | |2/3 Held [Ed] | |

| |interscholastic activities. | | | |

|SB 1282 |Affiliated charter schools |Ed |2/1 1st read | |

|(Huppenthal) |Allows charter schools to give enrollment preference to and reserve |Rules |2/2 2nd read | |

| |capacity for pupils who attended an affiliated charter school. Defines | |2/3 Held [Ed] | |

| |“affiliated charter school” as a charter school that enters into a | | | |

| |written agreement with another charter school requiring the first to | | | |

| |guarantee admission to the pupils who attended the other charter school if| | | |

| |those pupils apply for admission. The agreement may or may not be | | | |

| |reciprocal. | | | |

|SB 1284 |School finance revision |Ed |2/1 1st read | |

|(Huppenthal) |Among its many provisions, the bill: |Rules |2/2 2nd read | |

| |Requires the ADE to apply state law changes that modify or impact the | |2/10 Ed agenda | |

| |school finance formulas for the entire fiscal year, unless otherwise | | | |

| |specified by law, regardless of the law’s effective date. | | | |

| |Conforms statutes to the new apportionment schedule. | | | |

| |Clarifies calculations for adjusting the Base Level relating to Optional | | | |

| |200-day, Career Ladder, Optional Performance Incentive Program and | | | |

| |Additional Teacher Compensation. | | | |

| |Deletes outdated references to Rapid Decline. | | | |

|SB 1286 |Schools; achievement profiles; letter grades |Ed |2/1 1st read | |

|(Sen. Huppenthal, Gray L;| |Rules |2/2 2nd read | |

|Rep Lesko: Sen. Allen S, | | |2/10 Ed agenda | |

|Verschoor) | | | | |

|SB 1293 |Income tax credits; repeal dates |Fin |2/1 1st read | |

|(Sen. Burton Cahill; Rep.| |Rules |2/2 2nd read | |

|Farley: Sen. Alvarez, | | | | |

|Garcia, Lopez, Rios; Rep.| | | | |

|Ableser, Heinz, Lopes, | | | | |

|Schapira | | | | |

|SB 1297 |ELL programs; alternative models |Ed |2/1 1st read | |

|(Sen. Lopez: Rep. | |Rules |2/2 2nd read | |

|Bradley) | | | | |

|SB 1308 |High school instruction; dating violence |Ed |2/1 1st read | |

|(Sen. Gray L; Rep. Young | |Rules |2/2 2nd read | |

|Wright: Burges) | | | | |

|SB 1309 |Parents; rights |PSHS |2/1 1st read | |

|(Sen. Gray C, Gray L, | |Rules |2/2 2nd read | |

|Pearce R; Rep. Barnes, | | | | |

|Barto, Gowan, Montenegro:| | | | |

|Sen. Allen S, Harper, | | | | |

|Melvin, Verschoor; Rep. | | | | |

|Antenori, Burges, Lesko, | | | | |

|Mason, Murphy, Nichols, | | | | |

|Stevens) | | | | |

|SB 1319 |English language learners; educational technology |Ed |2/1 1st read | |

|(Melvin: Huppenthal) | |Approps |2/2 2nd read | |

| | |Rules | | |

|SB 1323 |Schools; ADM |Ed |2/1 1st read | |

|(Huppenthal) | |Rules |2/2 2nd read | |

|SB 1335 |Student count; fortieth day; removal |Ed |2/2 1st read | |

|(Verschoor) | |Rules |2/3 2nd read | |

|SB 1336 |Schools; current-year funding |Ed |2/2 1st read | |

|(Verschoor) | |Rules |2/3 2nd read | |

|SB 1405 |Charter schools; food; tax exemption |Rules |2/2 1st read | |

|(Huppenthal) | | |2/4 2nd read | |

|SCR 1001 |Punitive damages; schools; teachers; exemptions |Ed |1/11 1st read | |

|(Harper, Nelson) | |Rules |1/12 2nd read | |

|SCR 1032 |Schools; classroom instruction expenditures |Approps |1/26 1st read | |

|(Sen. Pearce R, Gorman: | |Ed |1/27 2nd read | |

|Rep. Burges, Court, Seel)| |Rules |2/9 Approps agenda | |

|SCR 1048 |Parental rights |PSHS |2/2 1st read | |

|(Gray C, Pearce R: Allen | |Rules |2/4 2nd read | |

|S, Gould, Harper, | | | | |

|Verschoor) | | | | |

LEGEND

C&P = Constitutional and proper (as determined by Rules Committee attorneys)

COM = Commerce Committee

DP = Do pass

DPA = Do pass as amended

Disc/Held = Discussed and held

MAPS = Military Affairs and Public Safety Committee

PERER = Public Employees, Retirement and Entitlement Reform Committee

PFC = Proper for consideration

PFCA = Proper for consideration amended

PFCA W/FL = Proper for consideration amended with recommendation for a floor amendment

PSHS = Public Safety and Human Services Committee

WM = Ways and Means Committee

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