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Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE BILL NO. 594
BY REPRESENTATIVE PRICE
EDUCATION/FINANCE–8G: (Constitutional Amendment) Provides relative to the
purposes for which monies from the Quality Education Support Fund (8(g)) may be
used by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education
A JOINT RESOLUTION1
Proposing to amend Article VII, Section 10.1(D)(2) of the Constitution of Louisiana, to2
provide relative to the purposes for which monies from the Louisiana Quality3
Education Support Fund may be used by the State Board of Elementary and4
Secondary Education; to provide for submission of the proposed amendment to the5
electors; and to provide for related matters.6
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Legislature of Louisiana, two-thirds of the members7
elected to each house concurring, that there shall be submitted to the electors of the state of8
Louisiana, for their approval or rejection in the manner provided by law, a proposal to9
amend Article VII, Section 10.1(D)(2) of the Constitution of Louisiana, to read as follows:10
§10.1. Quality Trust Fund; Education11
Section 10.1.12
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(D) Disbursement; Higher Education and Elementary and Secondary14
Education.15
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(2) The treasurer shall disburse not more than fifty percent of the monies in17
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the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education for any or all of the1
following elementary and secondary educational purposes:2
(a) To provide compensation to city or parish school board professional3
instructional employees.4
(b) To insure an adequate supply of superior textbooks, library books,5
equipment, technology services, and other instructional materials.6
(c) To fund exemplary programs in elementary and secondary schools7
designed to improve elementary or secondary student academic achievement or8
vocational-technical skill.9
(d) To fund carefully defined research efforts, including pilot programs,10
designed to improve elementary and secondary student academic achievement.11
(e) b To fund school remediation programs and preschool programs.12
(f) To fund the teaching of foreign languages in elementary and secondary13
schools.14
(g) To fund an adequate supply of teachers by providing scholarships or15
stipends to prospective teachers in academic or vocational-technical areas where16
there is a critical teacher shortage.17
Section 2. Be it further resolved that this proposed amendment shall be submitted18
to the electors of the state of Louisiana at the statewide election to be held on November 4,19
2014.20
Section 3. Be it further resolved that on the official ballot to be used at the election,21
there shall be printed a proposition, upon which the electors of the state shall be permitted22
to vote YES or NO, to amend the Constitution of Louisiana, which proposition shall read as23
follows:24
Do you support an amendment to limit the purposes for which monies from25
the Louisiana Quality Education Support Fund may be used by the State26
Board of Elementary and Secondary Education? (Amends Article VII,27
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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)]
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Abstract: Provides relative to the purposes for which monies from the Louisiana Quality
Education Support Fund, 8(g), may be used by the State Board of Elementary and
Secondary Education.
Present constitution provides for the creation of the Louisiana Quality Education Support
Fund (the Support Fund) in the state treasury. Further provides that the amounts in the
Support Fund shall be available for appropriation to pay expenses incurred in the investment
and management of the Permanent Trust Fund and for educational purposes only as provided
in present constitution.
Present constitution provides that the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education
(BESE) and the Board of Regents shall annually submit to the legislature and the governor
a proposed program and budget for the expenditure of the monies in the Support Fund.
Further provides that, except for appropriations to pay expenses incurred in the investment
and management of the Permanent Trust Fund, the legislature shall appropriate from the
Support Fund only for the educational purposes provided in present constitution and shall
appropriate 50% of the available funds for higher educational purposes and 50% for
elementary and secondary educational purposes.
Present constitution provides that the treasurer shall disburse not more than 50% of the
monies in the Support Fund as that money is appropriated by the legislature and allocated
by BESE for any or all of the following elementary and secondary educational purposes:
(1)To provide compensation to city or parish school board professional instructional
employees.
(2)To insure an adequate supply of superior textbooks, library books, equipment, and
other instructional materials.
(3)To fund exemplary programs in elementary and secondary schools designed to
improve elementary or secondary student academic achievement or vocational-
technical skill.
(4)To fund school carefully defined research efforts, including pilot programs, designed
to improve elementary and secondary student academic achievement.
(5)To fund school remediation programs and preschool programs.
(6)To fund the teaching of foreign languages in elementary and secondary schools.
(7)To fund an adequate supply of teachers by providing scholarships or stipends to
prospective teachers in academic or vocational-technical areas where there is a
critical teacher shortage.
Proposed constitutional amendment removes all such purposes for use of such funds except
insuring an adequate supply of superior textbooks, library books, equipment, and other
instructional materials and funding preschool programs. HLS 14RS-1379 ORIGINAL
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Proposed constitutional amendment adds as a purpose ensuring the supply of technology
services.
Provides for submission of the proposed amendment to the voters at the statewide election
to be held Nov. 4, 2014.
(Amends Const. Art. VII, §10.1(D)(2))