First Regular Session
               Seventieth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 15-1108.01 Brita Darling x2241  SENATE BILL 15-280
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Scheffel and Carroll, Crowder, Kerr, Sonnenberg, Steadman
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Wilson and Fields, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 Education
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning ensuring that a school district does not lose
            total program funding as a result of the inclusion of
            multi-district on-line pupils in the calculation of the
            school district's size factor.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            The bill excludes multi-district on-line pupils from the calculation
       of the size factor if including those students results in a decrease in total
       program funding for the district from the funding that the district would
       have received without including the multi-district on-line pupils in the
       calculation of the size factor.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 22-54-104, add (5)
       (b) (V) as follows:
            22-54-104.  District total program - definitions.
       (5) (b) (V)  Notwithstanding any provision of this paragraph (b)
       to the contrary, for the 2015-16 budget year and each budget
       year thereafter, if including a district's on-line pupil
       enrollment in the district's funded pupil count for purposes of
       calculating the district's size factor results in less total
       program funding for the district than if the on-line pupil
       enrollment were excluded, then the funded pupil count used to
       calculate the district's size factor shall not include the
       district's on-line pupil enrollment for the applicable budget
       year.
            SECTION 2.  Safety clause. The general assembly hereby finds,
       determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate
       preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.