HB 1446

Abstract

Certain school boards; school buildings; assessment; compliance. Requires any local school board in a local schooldivision that (i) is under a division-level corrective action plan,(ii) contains any school that is under a corrective action plan,or (iii) receives at-risk add-on payments pursuant to the generalappropriation act to annually assess each school building in thelocal school division for compliance with the Board of Education'sminimum standards for school buildings and report the results to the Board. The bill requires, in any case of noncompliance with suchstandards, such report to include an assessment of the extent towhich local funds are available to remedy such noncompliance. Thebill provides that when the Board determines, on the basis of anysuch report, that a local governing body has not provided the localschool board sufficient funds to ensure compliance with the minimumstandards for school buildings, the Board may petition the relevant circuit court to compel the local governing body to provide suchfunds to the local school board.