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

SPONSOR Nava

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

1/31/08

HB

SHORT TITLE Next Generation Fund

SB 455

ANALYST Lucero

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY08

FY09

$250.0

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Relates to: SB0453 “Increase Next Generation Fund Corpus"

Relates to Appropriation in the General Appropriation Act

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD)

Public Education Department (PED)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Bill 455 appropriates two hundred fifty thousand ($250,000) from the general fund to the

next generation fund for expenditure in FY09 and subsequent fiscal years to promote positive

and child youth development pursuant to the Children’s Trust Fund Act.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of two hundred fifty thousand ($250,000) contained in this bill is a recurring

expense to the general fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of

fiscal year 2009 shall not

revert to the general fund.

This bill is not part of the CYFD request and it is not part of the executive recommendation.

Under the Children’s Trust Fund Act, under which the Next Generation Fund operates, the FY05

enabling statute, created the fund as a non-reverting fund. Funding is added to the corpus by

appropriation and interest generated off the corpus is used for program expenditure.

Senate Bill 455 – Page

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Up to ten percent of the income received from investment of the NGF may be expended for costs

to administer the fund and next generation projects. Administrative costs include per diem

(members of the CTF board) and mileage, staff salaries and expenses related to administration of

the fund. As of July 1, 2007, the interest income generated off of the Next Generation Fund was

$82.4 thousand. The expendable portion has been budgeted in the current year.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

The next generation fund (NGF) expanded the Children’s Trust Fund mission beyond its

enabling mission which focused on child abuse and neglect prevention. Originally, the

Children’s Trust Fund was created by state statute in 1978 to provide the means to develop

innovative projects which address issues such as, preventing child abuse and neglect, providing

medical, psychological treatment for victims of abuse and neglect and develop community based

services on child abuse and neglect.

NGF projects must provide positive child and youth development activities that support physical,

mental and social well-being; promote strong and health families and help prevent abuse and

neglect; promote community service, leadership and citizenship; and provide community

coordination of child and youth development programming.

Interest monies generated by the fund will be distributed through a competitive grant process,

targeting 0–24-year-old children and youths, administrated by the Children, Youth and Families

Department and guided by the state-appointed board of the Children’s Trust Fund (CTF).

As of July 1, 2007, the Next Generation Fund balance was $1,500.0. This bill will increase the

total fund balance to $2,000.0 in the current year.

PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS

"High-yield" out-of-school learning activities and effective instructional strategies may improve

attendance, positively impacting public school performance measures and benchmarks regarding

reading, language arts, math and graduation rates. Additionally, the Next Generation Fund may

positively impact the Pre-K initiative in terms of student readiness to enter school better prepared

to learn.

SB 455 supports multiple children’s cabinet priority areas.

ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS

CYFD already administers the Next Generation Council, which oversees administration of the

fund. The proposal does not present significant new administrative activities for CYFD.

CONFLICT, DUPLICATION, COMPANIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP

Relates to: SB0453 “Increase Next Generation Fund Corpus"

Relates to Appropriation in the General Appropriation Act

Senate Bill 455 – Page

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OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES

Recent research shows the following (In School and Out of School Factors, 2008):

•

High-achieving students spend more time engaged in academic lessons in the classroom

than low-achieving students, and they spend more time engaged in structured literacy-

enhancing activities out of school.

•

Conversely, low-achieving students spend less total time engaged in structured learning

activities (which include combined in-school and out-of-school time).

•

At the elementary and high school levels, high achievers spent more time in out-of-

school, high-yield learning activities than low achievers.

•

High-yield, out-of-school learning includes such diverse activities as leisure reading,

writing, studying, getting tutored, participating in community and school youth clubs and

programs, working on the computer, watching educational television, volunteering, doing

hobbies and playing organized youth sports.

•

The time students spent in these activities is an indicator of the extent of their learning

opportunities outside of school.

•

In particular, better readers spent more out-of-school time involved in powerful, high-

impact (high-yield), language-enriched activities that promotes successful acquisition and

expansion of developmentally appropriate reading skills. These activities included:

1.

Weekly time dialoguing with adults, youth club enrichment activities, hobby and

volunteer activities, organized sports and educational television.

2.

Regular study/homework routines, often with adult or peer monitoring and

support.

3.

Reading and writing practices in the home, sometimes including composing text

on the computer.

Reference:

North Central Regional Educational Laboratories, In-School and out-of-school factors that

built student achievements, Retrieved January 28, 2008, from

http://www.ncrel.org/gap/clark/student.htm

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