Status: 2012General Session--Ongoing Current as of: 2/22/2012 at 8:50 PM FISCAL NOTE LOG--HOUSE BILLS 2012 Wednesday, February 22, 2012 Link to 2012 Legislature General Session Numbered Bills and Resolutions Link to 2012 Legislation Governor Actions Link to Bills and Bill Requests by Sponsor, Subject or Committee Link to Weekly Schedules of House--Feb 20 to Feb 24 Link to Recorded House Floor Debates Public Education Budget Overview USOE Fiscal Note Input Web Site House and Senate Floor Calendar Displays Link to Key Legislative Dates Link to 2011 MSP & USOE In-Depth Budget Review Legislative Fiscal Analyst's 2011 Compendium of Budget Information Legislature Fiscal Highlights New Bills Added since this Document was last Published are Highlighted in Green New Fiscal Note Input from USOE to LFA Added since this Document was last Published is Highlighted in Blue Bills Passed by the House and Senate are Highlighted in Pumpkin Bills Signed by Governor or Allowed to Become Law without Signature are Highlighted in Yellow Bills Vetoed by Governor are Highlighted in Red S Bill Number t Bill Status USOE Date Perfor- a Current Status of Date Date Sent to (Appropriations t Bill Title Link Tracking mance Note Assigned to USOE Fiscal Note Input LFA Fiscal Note u Bill Complete Received Received LFA in RED) s in Place Total Number of Total Number of House Percent of Total Number Total Number of Bills Tracked in House Total Number of USOE Fiscal Note Inputs for Total Number of USOE House Bill Fiscal Note Inputs Written for LFA House Bills Performance Notes Fiscal Notes of Performance Total Number of House Fiscal Notes Written and Published by LFA: and Senate: House and Senate: and Published: Tracked: Requested to Total Bills Notes 4 40.2% DRAFT174 BILL Patient Identity261 Validation 17 Nov5 11 Sean105 17 Nov 11 The bill does not appear to require additional68 action on the part of public 109 Enactment of this bill appropriates for FY 2013 $3,520,960,400 to support the MSP, School Building Program, and state education agencies. This total includes ongoing appropriations of$3,750,000 from the General Fund, $16,000,000 from the Uniform School Fund, and $2,386,756,300from the This bill appropriates for FY2013 $3,520,860,400 to support the Minimum Education Fund. Other sources appropriated in the bill include $457,714,000 School Program, School Building Program, and state education agencies. from federal funds, $590,334,200 in local school district property tax Enactment of this bill sets the estimated minimum basic tax rate for revenue, $23,009,400 from the USFR-Interestand Dividends Account, Public Education Base Budget FY2013 at 0.001591 (the FY2012 actual basic tax rate) to generate an 2/13/2012 $2,168,700 from the USFR-Professional Practices Account, $222,500 from 2 estimated $284,221,713 (the FY2012 basic tax rate revenue amount). H.B. 1 Amendments--Merlynn T. Governor Signed Yes 23-Jan-12 Cathy the GFR-Land Exchange Distribution Account, $497,000 from the GFR- This bill authorizes a total of 765,755 Weighted Pupil Units (the same as Newbold Substance Abuse PreventionAccount, $3,049,800 from Federal Mineral for FY 2012). This bill sets the value of each Weighted Pupil Unit at Lease revenue, $29,341,700 in dedicated credits, and$8,116,800 in other $2,816 with the exception of Special Education Add-on and Career and sources. The bill authorizes the same number of WPUs in FY 2013 as in FY Technical Education Add-on at $2,577, the same rates set for Fy 2012. 2012. The value of the WPU is maintained at $2,577 for the Special Education - Add on and the Career & Technical Education Add-on. The value of the WPU is maintained at $2,816 for all other programs. The state guarantee for the Voted and Board Leeway programs is set at $27.17. Natural Resources, This bill appropriates $330,347,500 ($55,964,100 from the General/ Education Funds) for the support and operation of state government-- Agriculture, and Environmental 02/13/12 Governor 2 Not Requested including the SITLA budget--for fiscal year 2013. This bill likely will not result H.B. 5 Signed Yes Quality Base Budget--John G. in direct, measurable costs for local governments; this bill likely will not Mathis result in direct, measurable expenditures by Utah residents or businesses. Current School Year Supplemental Public Education H.B. 7 Yes Numbered by Title Without any Substance Budget Adjustments--Merlynn Newbold 2/8/2012 Draft of Enactment of this bill likely will not materially impact the state budget. Corrections Education Enactment of this bill likely will not result in direct, measurable costs for H.B. 12 1 Enrolled Bill Yes 20-Dec-11 Sean 21-Dec-11 This bill codifies current processes and procedures. Amendments--Bill Wright local governments. Enactment of this bill likely will not result in direct, Prepared measurable expenditures by Utah residents or businesses. The estimated ongoing cost to provide an adaptive assessment system for all students in grades 3-11, beginning in 2014-15 will be $6,700,000. This 01/30/12 House/ Enactment of this bill appropriates $6,700,000 ongoing from the Education assumes that the State Board of Education will implement an adaptive passed 3rd reading Fund for costs associated with computer adaptive testing. In addition, USOE assessment system as scheduled. This cost includes the difference Statewide Adaptive Testing-- 72 0 3 02/09/12 has $4,700,000 in its base budget for the Criterion Reference Test. School between the total estimated cost of implementing an adaptive H.B. 15 Senate/ circled Yes 20-Dec-11 Jenn 4-Jan-12 districts and charter schools may apply for computer adaptive testing Gergory H. Hughes assessment system ($11, 400,000) which tests language arts, funding of $6,700,000. This bill likely will not result in direct, measurable 0 0 29 mathematics, and science -- and the current Criterion-Referenced testing expenditures by Utah residents or businesses. costs of $4.7 million. Technology costs have not been included in this fiscal note. The Utah state Office fo Education uses Social Security Numbers to match K-12 student data to post-secondary and workforce data to meet federal reporting requirements. Federal agreements for State Longitudinal Data Systems are not necessarily law but areState obligations. Prohibiting collection and storage of SSNs for this purpose Provisions of this bill require state entities to use individual client identifiers would have no fiscal impact, but would have a significant impact on the that are not Social Security numbers or nine digit identifiers. Many state ability of the Carreer and Technical Education and Adult Education agencies and education institutions currently use nine digits for identification Sections at USOE to provide services. In addition, Utah Law requires State Issued Identification of their clients. The cost to reissue other than nine digit identifiers and Substituted applicants to submit to criminal background checks as a condition for H.B. 19 Yes 5-Jan-12 Jenn 19-Jan-12 reprogram data systems to recognize the new identifiers is estimated to be Numbers--Wayne A. Harper Educator licensing. The Bureau of Criminal Identification requires a SSN $10,627,100 one-time from the General Fund. Local governments using to conduct these background checks. Prohibiting the use of Social nine digit numbers to identify their clients will have costs to comply with the Security Numbers for this purpose would result in inaccurate background bill's provisions. check information if only a name and birthdate were used--not to mention the potential for harm to children should criminal backgrounds go undiscovered. For these reasons, if this bill were to go into effect, USOE would need to ask for a waiver of the requirements outlined under Section 63G-15-201 (1). USOE issued IDs are CACTUS IDs for Educators and SSIDs for students. USOE's IT system is currently capable of restricting the use of 9 digits or State Issued Identification 02/22/12 Draft of assuring that 9 digit IDs issued are not Social Security Numbers. USOE's Enactment of this bill likely will not materially impact the state budget. H.B. 19 S1 1 Enrolled Bill Yes 31-Jan-12 Jenn 2-Feb-12 IT system is not undergoing signifficant reprogramming or redesign and Enactment of this bill likely will not result in direct, measurable costs for Numbers--Wayne A. Harper Prepared the Agency does not issue SSNs directly as primary identifiers. However local governments. Enactme Utah residents or businesses. USOE does use SSNs for necessary longitudinal data tracking of students and background checks for teachers. Enactment of this bill likely will not materially impact the state budget. This This bill will cause school districts to do an RFP every 3 years. This might bill requires school districts to issue triennial bids for employee health already be current practice by many school districts, but currently there is Health Insurance for School insurance. For those districts not already in compliance, such bids could Substituted no requirement. This bill will also cause school districts to potentially hire H.B. 24 Yes 20-Dec-11 Von 21-Dec-11 cost districts between $0 and $50,000 each .Enactment of this bill likely will Districts--Jim Bird more brokers or people to respond to the increased requirement. The bill not result in direct, measurable expenditures by Utah residents or is silent concerning applying the requriements to charter schools. businesses. This bill will cause many school districts and charter schools to do an RFP every 3 years.