FINANCE/PURCHASING/FOOD SERVICE

HB354: Administration, finance, purchasing

Textbook purchasing contracts. Permits local school boards to enter into contracts with publishers for the purchase of textbooks. The bill (i) expands the definition of textbook to include print and electronic media; (ii) reorganizes the textbook purchasing process and repeals several sections of outdated Code; (iii) provides that if consumable materials are sold to students, the local school board must provide those materials at a reduced price, or free of charge, to students who are unable to afford them; and (iv) allows any private school to purchase from a local school board's contract with the publisher, with the approval of both the local school board and the publisher.  
Patron - Cole

HB769:Administration, facilities, finance

Literary Fund; memoranda of lien. Provides that, upon request of a locality, any memoranda of lien deposited with the State Treasurer on behalf of the Literary Fund prior to July 1, 2007, shall be released.  
Patron - Tata

HB770: Administration, policy, finance

System of accounting in public schools. Establishes technology as a major classification of school funds.  
Patron - Tata

SB356: (HB137)

Textbook purchasing contracts. Permits local school boards to enter into contracts or issue purchase orders with publishers for the purchase of textbooks. The bill reorganizes the textbook purchasing process and repeals several sections of outdated code. Also provides that if consumable materials are sold to students, the local school board must provide those materials at a reduced price, or free of charge, to students who are unable to afford them. This bill is identical to HB 137.  
Patron - Watkins

SB559 :Special legislation

Local composite index; number of students. Increases from 350 to 1,100 the maximum number of students allowed for a school division to qualify to have its state share of aid adjusted, based on a cost-sharing agreement with a neighboring school division. In addition, only those school divisions located in a locality with a composite index of .6000 or greater that has at least 65 percent of its local taxes coming from real estate taxes would qualify. The bill provides that no additional supplemental basic aid payments shall be made prior to July 1, 2010, and the sum of the basic aid payment and any supplemental basic aid payment would not exceed the basic aid payment appropriated to the locality by the 2007 Session of the General Assembly.  
Patron - Obenshain