Arizona HB 2235: appropriation; San Carlos Apache college

Bill Text

HB2235 - 572R - I Ver 

 REFERENCE TITLE: juvenile detention centers; education programs

 State of Arizona

 House of Representatives

 Fifty-seventh Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2026

 HB 2235

 Introduced by 

 Representative 
 Blackman

AN 
ACT

amending sections 15-913 and 15-913.01, 
Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to school attendance.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 15-913, Arizona Revised 
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE15-913. Juvenile detention centers; education programs; fund

A. Each county that operates a juvenile detention 
center shall offer an education program to serve all school-age children 
in its the county's juvenile 
detention center. The county school superintendent and the presiding 
juvenile court judge in each county shall agree on the method of delivery of 
the juvenile detention center education program.

B. The state board of education shall prescribe 
standards and achievement testing requirements for county juvenile detention 
center education programs that attempt to ensure that the programs are 
compatible with public school education goals and requirements. The 
county school superintendent shall attempt to coordinate the program with each pupil's student's school district of 
residence to assist the pupil's student's 
transition back to the school district at the appropriate time.

C. A county may operate its and fund, or operate but not fund, the county's juvenile 
detention center education program through an existing accommodation school.

D. If a county chooses not to operate, 
its or to operate but not fund, the 
county's juvenile detention center education program through an existing 
accommodation school, the county school superintendent may establish a 
detention center education fund to provide financial support to the juvenile detention center education program. The county school superintendent may administer the detention center 
education fund through an existing accommodation SCHOOL. The 
detention center education fund for each county's program 
shall consist of a base amount plus a variable amount.� For fiscal year 2019-2020, 
the base amount is $100,000 and the variable amount shall be determined 
pursuant to subsection E of this section. Beginning with fiscal year 
2020-2021, the base amount is the amount for the prior year adjusted by 
the growth rate prescribed by law, subject to appropriation.� The base amount 
and variable amount for each county or counties served shall be funded with 
state general fund monies, subject to appropriation.� The county school 
superintendent must submit claims for payments to the superintendent of public 
instruction. The county school superintendent shall deposit the 
payments into in the detention 
center education fund. Any excess monies in the detention center 
education fund shall be used to supplement classroom spending.

E. The variable amount of each 
county's detention center education fund shall be determined as follows:

1. Determine the number of days in the prior fiscal 
year that each child who had been in the detention center for more than forty-eight 
hours received an instructional program of at least two hundred forty minutes.� 
A school district or an accommodation school may not 
count a child as being in attendance in that school district on a day that the 
child is counted for the purposes of this paragraph.

2. Multiply the number of days determined under 
paragraph 1 of this subsection by the following amount:

(a) For fiscal year 2019-2020, $25.

(b) For fiscal year 2020-2021 and thereafter, 
the amount for the prior year adjusted by the growth rate prescribed by law, 
subject to appropriation.

3. For each child with a disability as defined in 
section 15-761 who had been in the detention center for more than forty-eight 
hours:

(a) Determine the amount prescribed in section 15-1204, 
subsection E, paragraph 1 or 2 and add $100 for capital outlay costs.

(b) Divide the sum determined under subdivision (a) 
of this paragraph by one hundred seventy-five.

(c) Subtract the amount prescribed in paragraph 2, 
subdivision (a) or (b) of this subsection from the quotient determined in 
subdivision (b) of this paragraph.

(d) Determine the number of days in the prior fiscal 
year that the child received an instructional program of at least two hundred 
forty minutes.

(e) Multiply the amount determined in subdivision 
(d) of this paragraph by the difference determined in subdivision (c) of this 
paragraph.

4. Add the amounts determined in paragraph 3 of this 
subsection for all children with disabilities.

5. Add the sum determined in paragraph 4 of this 
subsection to the product determined in paragraph 2 of this 
subsection. This sum is the variable amount.

F. If a county juvenile 
detention center education program serves more than one county, the county 
school superintendents and the pre