SENATE BILL 1070
RS30181 / S1070
Section 33-1002G, Idaho Code, authorizes school districts and public charter schools to establish career technical schools/centers that qualify for funding appropriated for the specific purpose of supporting the added cost of high-quality career technical schools/centers. To be eligible for this added cost funding, at least 15% of the students attending the career technical school (CTS) must come from a separate high school. In recent years, school districts in rural areas have expressed difficulty in being able to recruit 15% of the CTS students from other high schools during the initial startup years when they are reliant on high school students from neighboring school districts or charter schools. The proposed amendments would allow new schools/centers to be eligible with an initial student enrollment where 5% of the students come from a separate high school, increasing each year by 5% until they reach the current 15% requirement. Additional changes would allow for existing programs, with approval from the Division of Career Technical Education, to use a three-year rolling average to calculate the 15% requirement. This flexibility would allow an established program to continue to receive the CTS added cost funding even if they saw a fluctuation in a single year in the 15% student enrollment requirement as long as the three-year rolling average met the requirement. One additional area being addressed is in response to the transportation challenges in rural areas where students may have to travel for an hour each way to participate in a career technical education (CTE) program in a neighboring district. In these instances, a parent may choose to enroll the student full time at the high school with the CTE program, when this happens, they are then counted as that high school’s student and are not able to be used to meet the 15% requirement. The amendment to address this issue would allow for these students to be counted the same as homeschooled students who reside in a neighboring school districts attendance area are counted.
There would be no additional fiscal impact to the state general fund. Currently, career technical school added cost funding is based on an annual set appropriation. That annual appropriation is then distributed to the eligible career technical schools on a student enrollment basis pursuant to IDAPA 55.01.03.
| Date | Description |
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| 02/10 | Introduced; read first time; referred to JR for Printing |
| 02/13 | Reported Printed; referred to Education |
| 02/22 | Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation; Filed for second reading |
| 02/23 | Read second time; filed for Third Reading |
| 03/02 | Read third time in full – PASSED - 35-0-0 AYES – Adams, Anthon, Bernt, Bjerke, Burtenshaw, Carlson, Cook, Den Hartog, Foreman, Grow, Guthrie, Harris, Hart, Hartgen, Herndon, Just, Lakey, Lee, Lenney, Lent, Nichols, Okuniewicz, Rabe, Ricks, Ruchti, Schroeder, Semmelroth, Taylor, Toews, Trakel, VanOrden, Ward-Engelking, Winder, Wintrow, Zuiderveld NAYS – None Absent and excused – None Floor Sponsor - Den Hartog Title apvd - to House |
| 03/03 | Received from the Senate, Filed for First Reading |
| Read First Time, Referred to Education | |
| 03/20 | Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation, Filed for Second Reading |
| 03/21 | Read second time; Filed for Third Reading |
| 03/22 | U.C. to place at bottom of third reading calendar one legislative day |
| U.C. to hold place on third reading calendar one legislative day | |
| 03/23 | U.C. to be placed on General Orders, no objection |
| 03/30 | Referred to the Committee of the Whole |
| Reported out without recommendation as amended | |
| Amendments Referred to the JRA for Printing | |
| Filed for First Reading | |
| Read first time as amended in House; Filed for Second Reading | |
| Rules Suspended: Ayes 66 Nays 0 Abs/Excd 4, read in full as required – PASSED - 66-2-2 AYES – Alfieri, Allgood, Andrus, Barbieri, Blanksma, Boyle, Bundy, Burns, Cannon, Cheatum, Chew, Clow, Cornilles, Crane(12), Dixon(1), Dixon(24), Durrant, Ehardt, Ehlers, Erickson, Furniss, Galaviz, Gallagher, Gannon, Garner, Green, Handy, Healey, Hill, Holtzclaw, Horman, Kingsley, Lambert, Lanting, Manwaring, Mathias, McCann, Mendive, Mickelsen, Miller, Mitchell, Monks, Nash, Necochea, Nelsen, Palmer, Petzke, Pickett, Raybould, Raymond, Redman, Roberts, Rubel, Sauter, Scott, Shepherd, Skaug, Tanner, Vander Woude, Weber, Wheeler, Wisniewski, Wroten, Yamamoto, Young(Cannon), Mr. Speaker NAYS – Hawkins, Price Absent – Berch, Crane(13) Floor Sponsor - McCann Title apvd - to Senate |
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| Returned from House, amended | |
| Referred to 10th Order for possible concurrence | |
| Senate concurred in House amendments; referred to engrossment | |
| 03/31 | Reported engrossed, filed for first reading, as amended |
| Read first time as amended in the House, filed for Second Reading | |
| Rules Suspended (2/3 Vote - Read in full as required) – PASSED - 32-0-3 AYES – Anthon, Bearg(Rabe), Bernt, Bjerke, Carlson, Cook, Den Hartog, Foreman, Geddes(Harris), Grow, Guthrie, Hart, Hartgen, Herndon, Just, Lakey, Lee, Lenney, Lent, Nichols, Ruchti, Schroeder, Semmelroth, Taylor, Toews, Trakel, VanOrden, Vick(Okuniewicz), Ward-Engelking, Winder, Wintrow, Zuiderveld NAYS – None Absent and excused – Adams, Burtenshaw, Ricks Floor Sponsor - Den Hartog Title apvd - to enrol |
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| Reported enrolled; signed by President; to House for signature of Speaker | |
| Received from Senate; Signed by Speaker; Returned to Senate | |
| Reported signed by the Speaker & ordered delivered to Governor | |
| Reported delivered to Governor at 1:15 p.m. on 03/31/23 | |
| Signed by Governor on 04/04/23 Session Law Chapter 271 Effective: 07/01/2023 |