HB1563: relative to funding for full-day kindergarten pupils.

HB 1563-FN-LOCAL - AS INTRODUCED

2016 SESSION

16-2471

04/09

HOUSE BILL 1563-FN-LOCAL

AN ACT relative to funding for full-day kindergarten pupils.

SPONSORS: Rep. Luneau, Merr. 10; Rep. Myler, Merr. 10; Rep. Verschueren, Straf. 13; Rep. Gile, Merr. 27; Sen. Feltes, Dist 15

COMMITTEE: Education

ANALYSIS

This bill increases funding for pupils attending full-day kindergarten programs.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

16-2471

04/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

AN ACT relative to funding for full-day kindergarten pupils.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Adequate Education; Definitions. Amend RSA 198:38, I(a) to read as follows:

(a) “Average daily membership in attendance” or “ADMA” means the average daily membership in attendance of pupils in kindergarten through grade 12, as defined in RSA 189:1-d, III of the school year in which the calculation is made[, provided that no kindergarten pupil shall count as more than 1/2 day attendance per calendar year].

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.

LBAO 16-2471

Revised 2/9/16

HB 1563-FN-LOCAL- FISCAL NOTE

AN ACT relative to funding for full-day kindergarten pupils.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The Department of Education states this bill, as introduced, will increase state education trust fund expenditures and local revenues by an indeterminable amount in FY 2017 and each year thereafter. There will be no impact on state and county revenues or county and local expenditures.

METHODOLOGY:

The Department of Education states this bill increases funding from half-day to full-day for pupils attending full-day kindergarten programs. The Department states based on FY 2017 preliminary data, which does not include any new full-time kindergarten programs that may have been established in September 2015, this bill would increase state education trust fund expenditures and local revenues for traditional public schools as follows (the Department of Education is unable to provide estimates for FY 2018 and each year thereafter):

FY 2017 - Preliminary Data

Current Law

Proposed

Increase

Adequate Education Grants

$563,924,066

$577,197,463

$13,273,397

Statewide Education Property Tax

$363,431,572

$363,431,572

$0

Total Cost

$927,355,638

$940,629,035

$13,273,397

To the extent a chartered public school provides full-day kindergarten programs, this bill would increase state education trust fund expenditures for charter school payments in FY 2017 and each year thereafter.