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HB4103 - 572R - Senate Fact Sheet
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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh
Legislature, Second Regular Session
FACT SHEET FOR
H.B. 4103
school districts;
property; bonding authority
Purpose
Prohibits a
school district governing board (governing board) from calling an election to
issue or modify bonds, if the ratio of the school district's student enrollment
to enrollment capacity is less than 50 percent.
Background
A governing
board may, and on petition of 15 percent of the school district electors must,
hold an election to decide whether school district bonds will be sold to raise
monies for specified purposes in the number and amount provided and payable
from the school district's debt service fund. Monies to redeem bonds and pay
interest are raised by assessing secondary property taxes in the school
district. A ballot for an election to decide whether a district may issue bonds
must contain outlined information, including the total amount of monies that
will be raised by issuing the bonds (
A.R.S.
� 15-491
).
The School
Facilities Oversight Board (SFOB) must adopt rules establishing minimum school
facility adequacy guidelines, which must provide the minimum quality and
quantity of school buildings and facilities necessary and appropriate to enable
pupils to achieve statutorily prescribed academic standards. A school district
must have facilities with a minimum cumulative classroom square footage per
pupil, with the required square footage per pupil changing based on grade level
(
A.R.S.
� 41-5711
;
A.A.C. R7-6-210
).
Average daily
membership
means the total enrollment of fractional students and full-time
students, minus withdrawals, of each school day through the first 100 days or 200
days in session, as applicable, for the current year (
A.R.S.
� 15-901
).
There is no
anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this
legislation.
Provisions
1.
Prohibits
a governing board, notwithstanding statute authorizing a governing board to
call a bond election and only if the school district's enrollment to enrollment
capacity is less than 50 percent, from calling an election to either:
a)
determine whether bonds may be issued and sold; or
b)
change
the list of capital projects or the purposes authorized by prior voter approval
to issue bonds.
2.
Specifies that the ratio of a school district's enrollment to enrollment
capacity is equal to the district's average daily membership for the prior year
divided by the number of students who can be educated in the district's
existing school buildings, as calculated by the SFOB consistent with the
minimum school facility adequacy guidelines.
3.
Prohibits the SFOB from including in the enrollment to enrollment
capacity calculation any existing building that the school district leases, if
the lessee uses the building to provide instruction to students in kindergarten
programs or any of grades 1 through 12.
4.
Becomes effective on the general effective date.
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HB4103 - 572R - H Ver
House Engrossed
school districts;
property; bonding authority
State of Arizona
House of Representatives
Fifty-seventh Legislature
Second Regular Session
2026
HOUSE BILL 4103
AN
ACT
amending title 15, chapter 4, article 5,
Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 15-492; relating to school
facilities.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it
enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section
1.
Title
15, chapter 4, article 5, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding
section 15-492, to read:
START_STATUTE
15-492.
School
buildings; enrollment to enrollment capacity ratio; election eligibility
A. Notwithstanding
section 15-491, if the ratio of a school district's
enrollment
to the school district's
enrollment capacity is less than
fifty
percent
,
the school district governing board may not Call an election to either:
1. Determine
whether bonds of the school district may be issued and sold.
2. Change
the list of capital projects or the purposes authorized by prior voter approval
to issue bonds.
B.
The ratio of
A school district's
enrollment
to the school district's
enrollment capacity is equal to the school district's
average daily membership as prescribed in section 15-901 for the prior
year divided by the number of students who can be educated in the school
district's existing school buildings, as calculated
by the school
facilities oversight board cONSISTENT WITH THE MINIMUM SCHOOL FACILITY ADEQUACY
GUIDELINES ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION 41-5711
.�
THE SCHOOL
FACILITIES OVERSIGHT BOARD MAY NOT INCLUDE IN THE CALCULATION PURSUANT TO THIS
SUBSECTION ANY EXISTING BUILDING THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT LEASES AS LESSOR IF
THE LESSEE USES THE BUILDING TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTION TO STUDENTS IN KINDERGARTEN
PROGRAMS OR ANY OF GRADES ONE THROUGH TWELVE.
END_STATUTE