HLS 12RS-1251 ORIGINAL
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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE BILL NO. 673
BY REPRESENTATIVE HARRISON
EDUCATION/FINANCE: Requires 80% of MFP funds be spent on classroom instruction
for students
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 17:81(W), relative to powers and duties of local public school boards; to2
require local public school boards to adopt policies to require that eighty percent of3
the minimum foundation program formula funds be spent on classroom instruction4
for students at each school; and to provide for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 17:81(W) is hereby enacted to read as follows:7
ยง81. General powers of city, parish, and other local public school boards8
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W. Each city, parish, and other local public school board shall adopt a policy10
that requires that eighty percent of the funds annually allocated through the11
minimum foundation program for the schools under the jurisdiction of each12
respective board be spent on classroom instruction for students as determined by the13
principal of each school.14 HLS 12RS-1251 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 673
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Harrison HB No. 673
Abstract: Requires local public school boards to adopt policies requiring that 80% of the
minimum foundation program formula funds be spent on classroom instruction at
each school as determined by the principal.
Present law provides for the general powers and duties of city, parish, and other local public
school boards.
Proposed law adds to present law powers and duties a requirement that local public school
boards adopt policies requiring that 80% of the funds annually allocated through the
minimum foundation program be spent on classroom instruction for students as determined
by the principal of each school.
(Adds R.S. 17:81(W))