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State Department of Education (SDE)
SUMMARY
Synopsis
of SFl Amendment
Senate Floor Amendment #1 amends Senate Bill 627. The amendment strikes the appropriation on page 1, and appropriation language on page 8.
Synopsis
of Bill
Senate Bill 627 appropriates $2,000.0 to SDE and
creates the School Library Material Fund. The SDE will make distributions from
this fund to school districts and state institutions to make purchases for
school library materials.
Significant
Issues
Senate Bill 627 includes language that would have the secretary of finance and administration will approve allocations to the funded entities. Any unexpended or unencumbered funds would not revert.
The Instructional Material Bureau of SDE will
administer this fund and the provisions of the School Library Material Act, a
new section of the Public School Code and be responsible for safe handling of
materials and funds, inventory and accounting and compliance by funded entities
of the act.
Upon approval of the Instructional Material
Bureau, funded entities may sell materials purchased through the Library
Material Fund at a price not to exceed the cost of the materials to the state,
and may hold responsible parents, guardians or
students for the cost of replacing lost or damaged materials.
The SDE will submit to the Department of Finance
and Administration an annual budget for the
Next fiscal year, to include anticipated library
materials expenditures.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
Senate Bill 627 would
appropriated $2,000.0 from the general fund and is recurring. The SDE will allocate
90% of the funds to funded entities on or before July 1 based on an estimated
membership for the next school year. On or before January 15 of each year, the
SDE will make a second allocation to funded entities to balance the allocation
according to actual membership based on the official 40th day
student count. Funded entities may retain unused funds for expenditure in
subsequent years.
ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS
According to SDE, the
enactment of the provisions of this bill by the Instructional Material Bureau
staff will result in significantly increased administrative responsibilities.
The current staff may not be sufficient to administer the provisions of this
bill.
SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
According to SDE,
“inasmuch as passage of this bill would require the Instructional Material Bureau
to administer the fund, and inasmuch as this creates a funding mechanism for
library material purchase similar to that of the Instructional Material Fund,
the department suggests that the bill be incorporated into the existing
Instructional Material Act.
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