School finance-amendments.

WORKING DRAFT
2013
STATE OF WYOMING
13LSO-0077.E1

SENATE FILE

NO.
SF0047

School finance-amendments.

Sponsored by:
Joint Education Interim Committee

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
school finance;
authorizing data access to retirement information for model monitoring and
other education data purposes subject to specified limitations;
expanding monitoring reporting process;
adjusting cost of education study components to the education resource block grant funding model as specified;
modifying repayment interest for advance foundation payments to school districts;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

W.S.
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409(b) by creating a new paragraph (v)
,
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309(u)
and 21
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313(g)

are
amended to read:

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409.

Retirement board; rules and regulations; powers and privileges required to perform functions;
requiring employers to furnish information and keep records; limited retirement data access.

(b)

The board shall:

(v)

Authorize access to retirement system information maintained by the board to the department of enterprise technology services for use by designated state agencies in supporting the education resource block grant model monitoring process established under W.S. 21
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309(u) and the statewide education longitudinal data system and education accountability systems required under W.S. 21
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204, subject to the following:

(A)

Data access shall be restricted to those data elements identified under agreement between the department of enterprise technology services, the designated state agency performing data analysis for purposes specified by this paragraph and the board;

(B)

Data management shall continue under the board;

(C)

Privacy, protection and use of data accessed under this paragraph shall be specified by agreement between the department of enterprise technology, the designated state agency and the board, with assurances to the board that proper safeguards are instituted by the department and the designated agency to maintain data security and confidentiality.
The safeguards shall assure that all data released
for access
is sufficiently aggregated or redacte
d so that no individual person
can be
identified
by way of specific information or by so narrowing a search of data sets so as to make any person's identity available.

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309.

Determination of amount to be included in foundation program for each district.

(u)

To ensure model components specified under the education resource block grant model defined under W.S. 21
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101(a)(xiv), as enumerated and enacted by the legislature and included in "Attachment A" referenced in W.S. 21
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101(a)(xvii), remain resourced at cost-based levels between periods of model recalibration required under subsection (t) of this section, and prior to adjustment for the effects of inflation for any school year under subsection (o) of this section, the joint education interim committee shall annually receive and review reports in accordance with this subsection and report to the joint appropriations interim committee as required by this subsection. The legislative service office shall assemble information necessary to develop a model monitoring process and other reports for the committee using data maintained by the department of education and other state agencies. For this purpose, the department shall annually update and compile information, in a format contained within reports provided during 2010 model recalibration, reported at the model component level, on school district allocation of model resources, as well as other information provided for purposes of developing and completing the 2010 cost of education studies.

To the extent possible, e
ducation accountability information collected to support W.S. 21
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204 shall
also
be included in the
monitoring
process data reporting and analysis.
Each year excluding the first school year of application of any model recalibration performed under subsection (t) of this section, the information and analysis assembled by the legislative service office under this subsection shall be reported to the joint education interim committee in sufficient time to allow committee review of and deliberation on the report and the submission of recommendations to the joint appropriations interim committee by October 15 of the applicable school year. Report recommendations shall be used by the joint appropriations interim committee in its determination of legislative recommendation on model adjustment under subsection (o) of this section.

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313.

Distribution of funds from foundation account; property tax and cash reserve adjustment; regulations.

(g)

In addition to subsections (b) and (c) of this section, the state superintendent shall, for any district subject to W.S. 21
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102(b) as determined by the department for any school year, or for any district not subject to W.S. 21
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102(b) whose entitlement amount determined under W.S. 21
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311(a) for any school year is equal to or less than twenty percent (20%) of the foundation program amount computed under W.S. 21
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309(p), and upon demonstration by the district of financial need as documented by cash flow analysis, provide payments from the school foundation program account in an amount not to

exceed one-fifth (1/5) of the foundation program amount computed for that district for that school year in accordance with W.S. 21
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309. The computed amount shall be paid to each eligible district on or before September 1 based upon tentative computations under W.S. 21
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309, for which the department may use fiscal information available from foundation program computations for the previous school year in the manner provided under subsection (b) of this section. Any district receiving a payment under this subsection and repaying the foundation program account by December 15 of that school year shall not be assessed interest. After December 15, the district shall be assessed interest at a rate equal to the rate specified by W.S. 21
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316(a) until the payment is repaid in full.
If repayment is not possible due to uncollected revenues under W.S. 21
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310(a)(i) and (ii), as certified by documented cash flow analysis supporting financial need, the department may extend the period for which interest is not assessed.

In no event shall an advance payment under this subsection extend beyond and remain unpaid by any district, including interest, on and after June 15 of that school year.

Section
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(a)

For school year 201
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, the model components specified within the 2010 cost of education study, as accepted by the legislature but prior to modification by the legislature under 2011 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 185, Attachment "A"(b), shall be adjusted for the effects of inflation in accordance with recommendations of the 201
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monitoring series of
report
s

assembled and submitted pursuant to W.S. 21
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309(u)
.
The adjustments to model components under this section shall be applied to the levels of
respective
components which have been adjusted in accordance with 201
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Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 99, Section 5.
The August 2011 report contains recommendations by consultants to the legislature and is on file with the legislative service office. Adjustments shall be as follows:

(i)

For the educational materials category of model components as defined by 2011 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 185, Attachment "A"(a)(iii),
as amended by 2012 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 99, Section 3,
two and
seventy-
eight
hundredths percent (2.
7
8
%) reflecting the annual change measured by the BLS Producer Price Index for Office Supplies and Accessories;

(ii)

For the energy category of model components as defined by 2011 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 185, Attachment "A"(a)(iv), as amended by
2012 Wyoming Session Laws, Chapter 99, Section 3,

a
negative four and sixty
-three

hundredths
percent (
-4.6
3
%) reflecting the annual change measured by the BLS Producer Price Index for Commercial Electric Power weighted at 44.1% and the BLS Producer Price Index for Natural Gas weighted at 55.9%.

Section
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This act is effective July 1, 2013.

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