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Minutes for HB2410 - Committee on K-12 Education Budget
Short Title
Creating the Kansas school equity and enhancement act
Minutes Content for Tue, May 2, 2017
Jason Long, Senior Assistant Revisor, was introduced by Chairperson Campbell. Revisor Long gave an overview, section by section, of the changes made to HB 2410, now the PROPOSED Substitute for House Bill 2410. (Attachment 1) The amendments he highlighted can be found in the minutes of March 30, 2017 and April 5, 2017. The following pages reflect the amendments to the bill as introduced:
Pgs. 2 & 12--mentor teacher and professional development
Pg. 22--definition of base aid amount
Pg. 24--definition of enrollment
Pg. 29--all day kindergarten
Pgs. 34 & 35--enrollment count adjustments
Pg. 41--single option budget, now Local Foundation Budget, LFB
Pg. 50--transportation weighting
Pg. 51--grandfather clause for transportation weighting
Pgs. 52 & 53--low enrollment weighting
Pg. 54--bilingual weighting
Pg. 54--at-risk student weighting
Pg. 55--only K-12 school districts for minimum floor
Pg. 55--at-risk high density weighting
Pg. 58--career and technical education weighting
Pgs. 58 & 59--school facilities weighting
Pg. 59, Sec. 31, 32, 33--technical amendments
Pg. 63, Para. 2,--should read Local Foundation Budget
Pg. 64, cost of living percentage adjustment--5% should be 31%
Pg. 68, Para. 2--similarly, 5% should be 31%
Pg. 74--State Board accreditation -- curriculum standards
Pg. 75--required audits conducted by the Legislative Division of Post Post Audit
Pg. 78--directs career & technical education cost study by State Board of Education
Pgs. 150 & 151 & 152--low income student scholarship tax credits
Pg. 165--bond obligations
Mr. Long also noted that on page 164 there would need to be a technical amendment to make the dates comply with HB 2052.
Representatives Landwehr, Aurand, Hoffman, Rooker, and Schwab and Chairperson Campbell made comments or asked questions during the briefing about the contents of these amendments and the current status of the substitute bill. Answers were given by Revisor Long and Eddie Penner, Fiscal Analyst.
Chairperson Campbell indicated there would be additional amendments presented in future meetings.
Next, Chairperson Campbell introduced Scott Frank, Post Auditor, Legislative Division of Post Audit. Mr. Frank told the Committee that last Friday the Post Audit Division had approved two new audits that would be conducted next year. One of the audits had been requested by Chairperson Campbell and will examine the wisdom of using assessed valuation as the metric for various equalization formulas, and consider other options that might better reflect equalization concerns. The other audit was requested by Representative Landwehr to re-examine the free lunch counts as a funding proxy for under-performing students and improve on the methodology of finding those students who may be eligible but who do not apply for the program.
Chairperson Campbell indicated these audits would either show that the performance measures in the bill are or are reasonably calculated to help K-12 students succeed or provide concrete guidance on how future legislatures could better tailor these metrics.
Tomorrow, Representative Johnson will be here to give a recap of what the House Taxation Committee has done and the Committee will discuss adding funding to the bill.
The next meeting of the House K-12 Education Budget Committee will be May 3, 2017.
Chairperson Campbell adjourned the meeting at 2:20 p.m.
