Senate Bill No. 257
(By Senator Wagner)
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[Introduced March 3, 1993; referred to the Committee
on Education; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section nine, article nine-a, chapter
eighteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to public school
faculty senates; and counting faculty senates as one
professional person in calculating the foundation allowance
for materials and supplies for faculty senates.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section nine, article nine-a, chapter eighteen of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 9A. PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPPORT.
§18-9A-9. Foundation allowance for other current expense and
substitute employees.
The total allowance for other current expense and substitute
employees shall be the sum of the following: Provided, That each
of the three amounts set forth in subparagraphs (1), (2) and (3)
of this section shall not exceed the preceding year's allowanceby more than four percent:
(1) For current expense, for the year one thousand nine
hundred ninety--ninety-one and thereafter, ten percent of the sum
of the computed state allocation for professional educators and
service personnel as determined in sections four and five of this
article. Distribution to the counties shall be made proportional
to the average of each county's average daily attendance for the
preceding year and the county's second month net enrollment; plus
(2) For professional educator substitutes or current
expense, two and five-tenths percent of the computed state
allocation for professional educators as determined in section
four of this article. Distribution to the counties shall be made
proportional to the number of professional educators authorized
for the county in compliance with sections four and five-a of
this article; plus
(3) For service personnel substitutes or current expense,
two and five-tenths percent of the computed state allocation for
service personnel as determined in section five of this article.
Distribution to the counties shall be made proportional to the
number of service personnel authorized for the county in
compliance with sections five and five-a of this article; plus
(4) For academic materials, supplies and equipment for use
in instructional programs, two hundred dollars multiplied by the
number of professional instructional personnel employed in the
schools of the county. For the purpose of providing faculty
senates moneys to purchase supplies for printing, correspondenceand other materials necessary for faculty senates to conduct
activities including materials needed in providing public schools
continuing education credit hours, each faculty senate shall be
counted the same as one additional professional instructional
person. Distribution shall be made to each county for allocation
to the faculty senate of each school in the county on the basis
of two hundred dollars per professional instructional personnel
employed at the school. Faculty senate means a faculty senate
created pursuant to section five, article five-a of this chapter.
Decisions for the expenditure of such funds shall be made at the
school level by the faculty senate in accordance with the
provisions of said section five, article five-a, and shall not be
used to supplant the current expense expenditures of the county.
(5) For the school year one thousand nine hundred ninety--
ninety-one only, there shall be a one-time additional
appropriation of five hundred thousand dollars to be distributed
to the counties on a needs basis. Funds shall be distributed to
those very few counties in which costs for the delivery of
educational services are extraordinarily greater than in the vast
majority of counties, thus impairing the quality of education in
those few counties. The factors used to determine eligibility
for funds shall be sparsity of student population, combined with
geographical barriers to the efficient transportation of
students; or extraordinary growth in net enrollment for school
year one thousand nine hundred ninety--ninety-one which exceed
the allowance for increased enrollment appropriated in the budgetfor that year. Prior to the distribution of funds, the state
superintendent shall establish that the applying county has
demonstrated efficiency and fiscal responsibility in staffing,
and in maximum sharing of services with adjoining counties and
the regional educational service agency for that county in the
use of the total local county budget.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to count faculty senates
as one additional professional instruction person in calculating
the current expense allowance to provide moneys for faculty
senates to conduct continuing education programs.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.