Arizona HB 2024: CTEDs; internships; funding

Bill Text

HB2024 - 551R - H Ver 

 House Engrossed

 CTEDs; 
 internships; funding

 State of 
 Arizona

 House of 
 Representatives

 Fifty-fifth 
 Legislature

 First Regular 
 Session

 2021

 HOUSE BILL 2024

AN ACT

amending section 
15-393, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to career technical education 
districts.

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

Section 1. Section 15-393, Arizona Revised 
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE15-393. Career technical education district governing board; report; 
definitions

A. The management and 
control of a career technical education district are vested in the career 
technical education district governing board, including the content and quality 
of the courses offered by the district, the quality of teachers who provide 
instruction on behalf of the district, the salaries of teachers who provide 
instruction on behalf of the district and the reimbursement of other entities 
for the facilities used by the district. This section does not 
restrict a school district from offering any career and technical education 
course that does not qualify for funding as a career technical education course 
or career technical education district program. Unless the governing 
boards of the school districts participating in the formation of the career 
technical education district vote to implement an alternative election system 
as provided in subsection B of this section, the career technical education 
board shall consist consists of five 
members elected from five single member districts formed within the career 
technical education district. The single member district election system shall 
be submitted as part of the plan for the career technical education district 
pursuant to section 15-392 and shall be established in the plan as 
follows:

1. The governing boards of 
the school districts participating in the formation of the career technical 
education district shall define the boundaries of the single member districts 
so that the single member districts are as nearly equal in population as is 
practicable, except that if the career technical education district lies in part 
in each of two or more counties, at least one single member district may be 
entirely within each of the counties comprising the career technical education 
district if this district design is consistent with the obligation to equalize 
the population among single member districts.

2. The boundaries of each 
single member district shall follow election precinct boundary lines, as far as 
practicable, in order to avoid further segmentation of the precincts.

3. A person who is a 
registered voter of this state and who is a resident of the single member 
district is eligible for election to the office of career technical education 
board member from the single member district. The terms of office of 
the members of the career technical education board shall be as prescribed in 
section 15-427, subsection B.� An employee of a career technical 
education district or the spouse of an employee shall not hold membership on a 
governing board of a career technical education district by which the employee 
is employed. A member of one school district governing board or 
career technical education district governing board is ineligible to be a 
candidate for nomination or election to or serve simultaneously as a member of 
any other governing board, except that a member of a governing board may be a 
candidate for nomination or election for any other governing board if the 
member is serving in the last year of a term of office. A member of 
a governing board shall resign the member's seat on the governing board before 
becoming a candidate for nomination or election to the governing board of any 
other school district or career technical education district, unless the member 
of the governing board is serving in the last year of a term of office.� 
Members of a career technical education district governing board are subject to 
the conflict of interest requirements prescribed in section 38-503.

4. Nominating petitions 
shall be signed by the number of qualified electors of the single member 
district as provided in section 16-322.

B. The governing boards of 
the school districts participating in the formation of the career technical 
education district may vote to implement any other alternative election system 
for the election of career technical education district board members. If 
an alternative election system is selected, it shall be submitted as part of 
the plan for the career technical education district pursuant to section 15-392, 
and the implementation of the system shall be as approved by the United States 
justice department.

C. The 
Career technical education district shall be districts are subject to the following provisions of this 
title:

1. Chapter 1, articles 1 
through 6.

2. Sections 15-208, 
15-210, 15-213 and 15-234.