Alaska HB 256: An Act relating to public school students connected to the military; relating to school funding for purple star designations; and providing for an effective date.

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HOUSE BILL NO. 256

IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA

THIRTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE - SECOND SESSION

BY REPRESENTATIVES STAPP, Allard, Gray

Introduced: 1/20/26
Referred: House Special Committee on Military and Veterans' Affairs, Education, Finance

A BILL

FOR AN ACT ENTITLED

"An Act relating to public school students connected to the military; relating to school 1
funding for purple star designations; and providing for an effective date." 2
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 3
* Section 1. AS 14.17.410(b) is amended to read: 4
(b) Public school funding consists of state aid, a required local contribution, 5
and eligible federal impact aid determined as follows: 6
(1) state aid equals basic need minus a required local contribution and 7
90 percent of eligible federal impact aid for that fiscal year; basic need equals the sum 8
obtained under (D) of this paragraph, multiplied by the base student allocation set out 9
in AS 14.17.470; district adjusted ADM is calculated as follows: 10
(A) the ADM of each school in the district is calculated by 11
applying the school size factor to the student count as set out in AS 14.17.450; 12
(B) the number obtained under (A) of this paragraph is 13
multiplied by the district cost factor described in AS 14.17.460; 14

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(C) the ADMs of each school in a district, as adjusted 1
according to (A) and (B) of this paragraph, are added; the sum is then 2
multiplied by the special needs factor set out in AS 14.17.420(a)(1), [AND] the 3
secondary school vocational and technical instruction funding factor set out in 4
AS 14.17.420(a)(3), and the purple star funding factor set out in 5
AS 14.17.420(a)(4); 6
(D) the number obtained for intensive services under 7
AS 14.17.420(a)(2) and the number obtained for correspondence study under 8
AS 14.17.430 are added to the number obtained under (C) of this paragraph or 9
under (H) and (I) of this paragraph; 10
(E) notwithstanding (A) - (C) of this paragraph, if a school 11
district's ADM adjusted for school size under (A) of this paragraph decreases 12
by five percent or more from one fiscal year to the next fiscal year, the school 13
district may use the last fiscal year before the decrease as a base fiscal year to 14
offset the decrease, according to the following method: 15
(i) for the first fiscal year after the base fiscal year 16
determined under this subparagraph, the school district's ADM adjusted 17
for school size determined under (A) of this paragraph is calculated as 18
the district's ADM adjusted for school size, plus 75 percent of the 19
difference in the district's ADM adjusted for school size between the 20
base fiscal year and the first fiscal year after the base fiscal year; 21
(ii) for the second fiscal year after the base fiscal year 22
determined under this subparagraph, the school district's ADM adjusted 23
for school size determined under (A) of this paragraph is calculated as 24
the district's ADM adjusted for school size, plus 50 percent of the 25
difference in the district's ADM adjusted for school size between the 26
base fiscal year and the second fiscal year after the base fiscal year; 27
(iii) for the third fiscal year after the base fiscal year 28
determined under this subparagraph, the school district's ADM adjusted 29
for school size determined under (A) of this paragraph is calculated as 30
the district's ADM adjusted for school size, plus 25 percent of the 31

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difference in the district's ADM adjusted for school size between the 1
base fiscal year and the third fiscal year after the base fiscal year; 2
(F) the method established in (E) of this paragraph is available 3
to a school district for the three fiscal years following the base fiscal year 4
determined under (E) of this paragraph only if the district's ADM adjusted for 5
school size determined under (A) of this paragraph for each fiscal year is less 6
than the district's ADM adjusted for school size in the base fiscal year; 7
(G) the method established in (E) of this paragraph does not 8
apply to a decrease in the district's ADM adjusted for school size resulting 9
from a loss of enrollment that occurs as a result of a boundary change under 10
AS 29; 11
(H) notwithstanding (A) - (C) of this paragraph, if one or more 12
schools close and consolidate with one or more other schools in the same 13
community and district and, as a result of the consolidation, basic need 14
generated by the district's ADM of the consolidated schools as adjusted under 15
(A) - (C) of this paragraph decreases, the district may use the last fiscal year 16
before the consolidation as the base fiscal year to offset that decrease for the 17
first four fiscal years following consolidation according to the following 18
method: