The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Alan Miller.
DIGEST
Murray (SB 219)
Proposed law requires the superintendent of the Recovery School District (RSD) to submit a
report on the current status of all school facilities that were transferred to the RSD's jurisdiction
to BESE, the parish, city, or local school board that originally transferred the facility to the RSD,
and to the House and Senate committees on education no later than August 1, 2014, and annually
thereafter by August 1st of each year.
Proposed law requires such report to include a complete listing of all school programs, as
identified by the school's previous site code, and physical locations of buildings, facilities, or
vacant or demolished structures, as identified by the school's or site's address, that were
transferred to the district and identify each of the following items:
(1)The operational status of each transferred school program, as identified by the school's
previous site code, in each year the school remained under the district's jurisdiction, and
the assigned school operator in the case of conversion to a Type 5 charter school.
(2)The operational status of each transferred facility or building, as identified by the school's
or site's address, in each year the school remained under the district's jurisdiction.
(3)An assessment of the current condition of each school facility, clearly indicating which
facilities have been maintained in a useable status, and an estimate of the necessary
maintenance and associated costs in order to bring other facilities into a useable status.
(4)The physical location and operator of each school program, based on prior site code, in
each year the school remained under the district's jurisdiction.
(5)The currently planned final status and physical location of each facility for each currently
operational school program, according to site code, under the district's jurisdiction.
(6)The currently planned final status and assigned school operator for each school facility
under the district's jurisdiction.
Proposed law requires that control of all transferred school facilities that have been identified in
this report as vacant and useable and that have no planned or assigned final operator be returned
to the previous parish, city, or local school board that originally transferred the facility to the
district no later than December 31, 2014, and annually by December 31 each year thereafter.
Proposed law requires that control of the original facilities for all transferred school programs
that have identified in this report as having been relocated from the school's initial physical location be returned to the previous parish, city, or local school board that originally transferred
the program to the district no later than June 30, 2015, and then annually by June 30 each year
thereafter.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Adds R.S. 17:1990(B)(5))