SB 758

Under this bill, each school board must employ a licensed instructional library

media specialist on a full-time basis for each school in the school district; each

independent charter school must employ a licensed instructional library media

specialist on a full-time basis; and each private school participating in a parental

choice program must employ a licensed instructional library media specialist, or an

individual with a degree in library science or an equivalent degree, on a full-time

basis.

In addition, the bill creates a school district revenue limit adjustment for the

costs of a school board to comply with this requirement. Current law generally limits

the total amount of revenue per pupil that a school district may receive from general

school aids and property taxes in a school year to the amount of revenue allowed per

pupil in the previous school year plus a per pupil increase, if any, as provided by law.

However, current law also includes several adjustments to the general revenue limit.

For example, if a school district increases the services that it provides by adding

responsibility for providing a service transferred to it from another governmental

unit, the school district's revenue limit is increased by the cost of that service.

The bill creates a school district revenue limit adjustment for the amount a

school district spent during the previous school year to employ a full-time librarian

in any school in the district that did not already have a full-time librarian.

Specifically, under the bill, a school board must state in a resolution for the revenue

limit adjustment the extent to which the school board was already in compliance with

the requirement to employ a full-time librarian for each school in the school district.

If the school board adopts the resolution, the school district's revenue limit is

increased by the amount the school board spent in the previous school year to reach

full compliance with that requirement.