No. SB 1704
Filed under Education.
Charter School Funding; Providing local funding sources for certain charter schools; prohibiting a district school board from delaying specified payments to a charter school; providing that certain charter school facilities are exempt from assessments and fees; revising requirements for a charter school to be eligible to receive capital outlay funding, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDDistricts must now pay charter schools their share of local discretionary millage levies without delay.
Charter schools are exempt from building permit fees, impact fees, and special benefit assessments.
Conversion schools keep their maintenance funds, and multi-county charter systems can receive federal funds.
Capital outlay eligibility rules are revised to include certain nonprofit and LLC-owned facilities.
AIAdds local discretionary millage levy funds to the state operating funds used to calculate charter school per-student funding.
AIForbids school districts from delaying charter school payments based on the timing of their receipt of local millage levy funds.
AIExempts facilities used by approved charter schools from building permits, impact fees, and special benefit assessments.
AIRemoves the requirement that charter schools must not serve students in sponsor-provided facilities to receive capital outlay funds.
AIExcludes eligible charter school students from the district's total membership when calculating the per-student capital outlay allocation.
AIPermits charter schools to use capital outlay funds for maintenance of facilities they occupy under long-term leases or mutual management plans.