Assigned to APPROP FOR COMMITTEE
ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Sixth Legislature, First Regular Session
FACT SHEET FOR S.B. 1530
K-12 education; 2023-2024.
Purpose
Makes statutory and session law changes relating to K-12 education necessary to
implement the FY 2024 state budget.
Background
The Arizona Constitution prohibits substantive law from being included in the general
appropriations, capital outlay appropriations and supplemental appropriations bills. However, it is
often necessary to make statutory and session law changes to effectuate the budget. Thus, separate
bills called budget reconciliation bills (BRBs) are introduced to enact these provisions. Because
BRBs contain substantive law changes, the Arizona Constitution provides that they become
effective on the general effective date, unless an emergency clause is enacted.
S.B. 1530 contains the budget reconciliation provisions for changes relating to K-12
education.
Provisions
Base Support Level
1. Increases the base level for FY 2024 from $4,775.27 to $4,870.78.
2. Increases, from 0.018 to 0.022, the Group B support level weight for children who are eligible
for the federal Free-and-Reduced Lunch Program (FRPL) and other school programs dependent
on a poverty measure.
Transportation Funding
3. Increases the transportation support level formula per-route-mile amount for FY 2024 as
follows:
Approved Daily Route Mileage per
Transported Student FY 2023 FY 2024
0.5 or less 2.83 2.89
Between 0.5 and 1.0 2.32 2.37
Over 1.0 2.83 2.89
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Additional Assistance
4. Increases the district additional assistance (DAA) amount per student count for FY 2024 as
follows:
PreK K-8 9-12
Student Count Current FY 2024 Current FY 2024 Current FY 2024
Less than 100
$502.33 $527.60
$606.88 $637.41 $670.02 $703.72
Between 100
and 600
$433.78 $455.60 $451.99 $474.73
At least 600 $502.33 $527.60 $549.33 $576.96
5. Increases, from $77.65 to $81.56, the per student count increase to DAA for textbooks and
printed subject matter materials for grades 9 through 12.
6. Increases the Charter Additional Assistance (CAA) amount per student count for FY 2024:
a) from $1,985.58 to $2,049.12, for students in preschool programs for children with
disabilities, kindergarten programs and grades 1 through 8; and
b) from $2,314.16 to $2,388.21, for students in grades 9 through 12.
Results-Based Funding
7. Continues to suspend the statutory Results-Based Funding distributions and requires the
Arizona Department of Education (ADE) to distribute monies from the Results-Based Funding
Fund in FY 2024 as follows:
a) $225 per student count for each district or charter school that:
i. has less than 60 percent of enrolled pupils eligible for FRPL or an equivalent measure,
including the community eligibility provision; and
ii. performed in the top 13 percent of all Arizona schools on the statewide assessment in
spring 2022;
b) $400 per student count for each district or charter school that:
i. has at least 60 percent of enrolled pupils eligible for FRPL, or an equivalent measure,
including the community eligibility provision; and
ii. performed in the top 13 percent of schools on the statewide assessment in spring 2022
of those schools with at least 60 percent of enrolled pupils eligible for FRPL, or an
equivalent measure;
c) $225 per student count for each district or charter school that:
i. has at least 60 percent of enrolled pupils eligible for FRPL, or an equivalent measure
including the community eligibility provision; and
ii. performed within the top 13.1 to 27 percent of schools on the statewide assessment in
spring 2022 of those schools with at least 60 percent of enrolled pupils eligible for FRPL
or an equivalent measure; and
d) $400 per student count for each alternative high school that performed in the top 27 percent
of schools on the statewide assessment in spring 2022, with at least 60 percent of enrolled
pupils eligible for FRPL or an equivalent measure. FACT SHEET
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8. Specifies that an alternative high school is eligible for results-based funding only if it reports
the average percentage of pupils who received a passing score on both the math and language
arts portions of the statewide assessment during testing conducted in spring 2022.
Miscellaneous
9. Conforms the tax year 2023 qualifying tax rates to reflect the required truth-in-taxation rate
adjustment.
10. Continues to state as the intent of the Legislature and the Governor that school districts increase
the total percentage of classroom spending over the previous year’s percentages in the
combined categories of instruction, student support and instructional support as prescribed by
the Auditor General.
11. Makes technical and conforming changes.
12. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
January 30, 2023
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