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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

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DATE TYPED 3/15/05

HB 511/aHEC/aSFC

SHORT TITLE Correct Educational Technology Deficiencies

SB

ANALYST Chabot

APPROPRIATION

Appropriation Contained Estimated Additional Impact Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY05

FY06

FY05

FY06

See Narrative

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

REVENUE

Estimated Revenue

Subsequent

Years Impact

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY05

FY06

See Narrative

Education Technology Defi-

ciencies Correction Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Revenue Decreases)

Relates to Appropriation in the General Appropriation Act

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Office of Information Technology Management (OITM)

Public Education Department (PED)

FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CAPITAL OUTLAY TASKFORCE

SUMMARY

Synopsis of SFC Amendment

The Senate Finance Committee amendment to House Bill 511 adds the Chief Information Offi-

cer as an advisor to the Education Technology Bureau in developing minimum supplemental

educational technology standards.

House Bill 511/aHEC/aSFC -- Page 2

Synopsis of HEC Amendment

The House Education Committee Amendment requires PED to include in the summary report

due by December 1, 2005, a methodology to prioritize projects in education technology.

Synopsis of Original Bill

House Bill 511 creates the non-reverting Education Technology Deficiency Correction Fund;

however, the bill provides no appropriation and none is found in the General Appropriation Act.

Revenue in the fund is appropriated to the Education Technology Bureau (ETB) of PED for the

purpose of making allocations to correct educational technology deficiencies in school districts.

The bill requires, by September 1, 2005, ETB define and develop minimum educational technol-

ogy adequacy standards to supplement those developed by the Capital Outlay Council. School

districts are to use these standards to conduct a self-assessment and provide cost projections to

correct deficiencies and ETB will prioritize the list provided by the districts. After a public hear-

ing, ETB will approve allocation form the fund to correct the deficiencies. Contracts entered

into shall “include such terms and conditions as necessary to ensure”…funds are “expended in

the most prudent manner possible consistent with the original purpose.” A temporary provision

requires ETB to prepare a report summarizing the adequacy standards, outstanding deficiencies

and estimated costs to correct them.

Significant Issues

PED states education technology includes all components of informational technology which is a

complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization for

analyzing problems, and devising, implementing, evaluating and managing solutions to prob-

lems.

PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS

PED assesses passage of this bill would lead to better accountability of schools, provide for bet-

ter use of learning technologies, and lead to better use of funds to “improve access to 21

st

Cen-

tury learning.”

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

PED states the Council of Technology in Education recommends $21 million be appropriated for

education technology deficiencies.

This bill creates a new fund and provides for continuing appropriations. The LFC objects to in-

cluding continuing appropriation language in the statutory provisions for newly created funds.

Earmarking reduces the ability of the legislature to establish spending priorities.

TECHNICAL ISSUES

Page 3, line 7, insert after “appropriated” “by the legislature”

Page 3, line 7 strike the second “to”

Page 3, line 8 strike “the education technology bureau”

House Bill 511/aHEC/aSFC -- Page 3

WHAT WILL BE THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT ENACTING THIS BILL.

PED assesses “Gaps between schools and districts that provide equitable and adequate access to

educational technology and those that do not will only widen as the state continues to invest in

online courses, virtual schools, online assessments and school-to-home connections.”

POSSIBLE QUESTIONS

1.

How will priorities be established.

2.

What will be the review process.

3.

What will be the purpose of the public meeting if it is held after ETB establishes priori-

ties.

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