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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 491
BY SENATOR NEVERS
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. Requires the state superintendent of education to secure
funding to provide an annual increase of at least 2.75% in the MFP. (gov sig)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 17:22(2)(d), relative to the functions and duties of the state2
superintendent of education; to require the state superintendent to secure sufficient3
funding to provide an annual increase in the minimum foundation program formula;4
and to provide for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 17:22(2)(d) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 7
ยง22. Superintendent; functions and duties 8
The superintendent shall: 9
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(2) Provide the staff services for the board. In that regard the superintendent11
shall:12
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(d)(i) Prepare a minimum foundation program, a formula for the equitable14
allocation of minimum foundation funds to parish and city school systems, and15
budgets for adoption by the board. Upon adoption by the board of such program,16
formula, and budget for the ensuing fiscal year, the superintendent shall submit the17 SB NO. 491
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budget in accordance with R.S. 39:33 and shall submit the minimum foundation1
program and formula to each member of the Joint Legislative Committee on the2
Budget and to each member of the House Committee on Education and the Senate3
Committee on Education for review not later than the fifteenth day of March in each4
year on the forms and in the manner prescribed and accompanied by such other data5
as the committees may require.6
(ii) Secure funding sufficient to provide an annual increase of at least7
two and three-fourths percent in the funding provided to city, parish, and other8
local public school systems through the minimum foundation program formula.9
Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not10
signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature11
by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If12
vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become13
effective on the day following such approval.14
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jeanne C. Johnston.
DIGEST
Proposed law requires the state superintendent of education to secure funding sufficient to
provide an annual increase of at least 2.75% in the funding provided to city, parish, and other
local public school systems through the minimum foundation program formula.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Amends R.S. 17:22(2)(d))