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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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ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
2/2/2007
HB 410
SHORT TITLE Las Vegas Family Partnership School
SB
ANALYST Aguilar
APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)
Appropriation
Recurring
or Non-Rec
Fund
Affected
FY07
FY08
$450.0
Recurring
General Fund
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
House Bill 410 appropriates $450 thousand from the general fund to the public education de-
partment for the purpose of replacing class-size adjustment funding for the family partnership
school.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The appropriation of $450 thousand contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the general
fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2008 shall
revert to the general fund.
As an alternative school, the Las Vegas Family Partnership is not eligible for school-size adjust-
ment funding yet has received the funding for the past few years. PED, in an audit, noted the
error in funding and for FY07 did not include it in the SEG distribution to the West Las Vegas
School District. The school has complained that it needs the funding to continue operation and
will request emergency funding for FY07. This appropriation is for the FY08 school year and is
intended to replace this funding.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
Distributions from the SEG are made based on units generated by a district and funding outside