OFFICE OF FISCAL ANALYSIS
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sHB-6880
AN ACT CONCERNING ASSORTED REVISIONS AND ADDITIONS
TO THE EDUCATION STATUTES.
Primary Analyst: DD 4/12/23
Contributing Analyst(s): CG
Reviewer: SB
OFA Fiscal Note
State Impact:
Agency Affected Fund-Effect FY 24 $ FY 25 $
Education, Dept. GF - Cost See Below See Below
Note: GF=General Fund
Municipal Impact:
Municipalities Effect FY 24 $ FY 25 $
Local and Regional School
Districts
Cost Potential
Minimal
Potential
Minimal
Explanation
Explanation
The bill makes several changes regarding the State Department of
Education and local and regional school districts which result in the
below impacts. The bill also makes changes to the Teachers' Retirement
System, as described below.
Sections 1 and 2 require school districts to post and make available
certain information regarding their curriculum and school food
nutritional value. This is anticipated to result in minimal printing costs
to districts.
Section 3 allows a public school student who is a father under age 17
to attend adult education classes. This has no fiscal impact as the
eligibility expansion is not anticipated to significantly increase the cost
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Section 4 specifies the student eligibility for participation in remote
learning and extends the deadline for the State Department of Education
to submit a plan for a remote learning school by six months. This has no
fiscal impact as it is not anticipated to impact the cost of developing the
plan, if any.
To the extent that the bill limits what students are eligible to
participate in remote learning, any impact this has on the cost of
administering a remote learning school will depend on the plan
ultimately developed by SDE.
Section 5 requires local and regional boards of education to make
information relating to regular or special meetings available on the
Internet web site of such boards. This has no fiscal impact as it is
anticipated that local and regional boards of education can meet this
requirement with existing resources.
Section 6 results in a minimal cost, estimated to be less than $10,000
per district annually beginning in FY 24, by establishing a parent
advisory committee and a teacher advisory committee for SDE, and
requiring certain related reimbursements for participants. SDE is
required to provide reimbursements for: (1) expenses incurred by
committee members in performing their duties, and (2) any expense
incurred by a local and regional school district for substitute teachers
hired while a member of the teacher advisory committee is performing
their duties.
Section 7 results in a potential cost to local and regional school
districts by expanding required training for school personnel to include
emergency response to a student having a seizure. Any cost is
anticipated to be minimal, associated with printing materials and with
overtime coverage for staff to attend training.
Section 8 requires SDE to conduct certain grant management
activities for the After School program grant. Correspondingly, the bill
increases, from 4% to 7.5%, the amount of After School program grant
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administration. In FY 23, this would have resulted in an approximately
$200,000 increase in the amount SDE may have retained from $230,000
to $430,000, and a commensurate decrease in the amount of funds
provided to qualifying districts.
Sections 9 and 10 result in an indeterminate cost to the State
Department of Education to by requiring the agency to provide
sufficient funding to the quasi-public State Education Resource Center
(SERC). The bill does not appropriate any funding for this purpose.
Although there is not currently a direct appropriation to SERC, it
receives most of its support from SDE and federal grant funding.
The bill also exempts SERC from certain requirements regarding real
estate transactions and procurement. This has no fiscal impact, as it does
not change state funding levels for SERC.
Section 11 delays, from FY 24 to FY 25, the cost to local and regional
school districts of providing free menstrual products in certain
restrooms. This does not change the overall cost of providing such
products.
Section 12 and 13 make changes to the Teachers’ Retirement System
(TRS) statutes, including requiring the Teachers’ Retirement Board to
classify schools operated by Goodwin University Magnet Schools and
Goodwin University Educational as public schools, that are not
anticipated to result in a fiscal impact. Teachers in schools operated by
Goodwin University Magnet Schools and Goodwin
University Educational Service currently participate in the TRS through
LEARN Regional Educational Services Center.
The Out Years
State Impact: See Above
Municipal Impact: See Above