HOUSE BILL NO. 2942 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE JONES (12).
5235H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT To repeal section 160.066, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to public school finances.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 160.066, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu 2 thereof, to be known as section 160.066, to read as follows: 160.066. 1. (1) By September 1, 2019, each public school district and each charter 2 school shall develop, maintain, and make publicly available, at a minimum, a searchable 3 expenditure and revenue document or database detailing actual income, expenditures, and 4 disbursements for the current calendar or fiscal year on its district or school website, which 5 may be in the format of a searchable PDF, document, or spreadsheet. 6 (2) For the 2027-28 school year and all subsequent school years, the database 7 required under subdivision (1) of this subsection shall include at least the following data 8 related to expenditures in an open-structured data format that may be downloaded by 9 the user and that allows the user to systematically sort, search, and access all such data: 10 (a) The name and principal location or address of the school district or charter 11 school receiving moneys, except that information concerning a payment to an employee 12 of the school district or charter school shall identify the individual employee by name 13 and business address or location only; 14 (b) A complete list of every administrative position with the following: 15 a. The job title, full job description, and primary duties of each administrative 16 position;
EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language. HB 2942 2
17 b. The total compensation for each employee in an administrative position with 18 the following: 19 (i) Base salary; 20 (ii) Stipends; 21 (iii) Bonuses; and 22 (iv) Benefits value; and 23 c. The business office location of each employee in an administrative position; 24 (c) a. Each active contract with a vendor, consultant, nonprofit entity, or outside 25 organization with the following: 26 (i) The contract amount, duration, renewal terms, and purpose; 27 (ii) A plain-language description of what the vendor or contractor actually does; 28 and 29 (iii) A statement identifying how the purchased service benefits student learning 30 outcomes; 31 b. Any contract related to social services; social-emotional learning; behavioral 32 health; diversity, equity, and inclusion; or other noninstructional programs shall 33 include: 34 (i) Measurable performance metrics; 35 (ii) An annual evaluation report; and 36 (iii) The total cost per student served; and 37 c. All expenditures for noninstructional programs shall include: 38 (i) The purpose of the program; 39 (ii) Measurable outcomes; 40 (iii) The total annual cost; 41 (iv) The cost per participating student; and 42 (v) The source of funding for each program; 43 (d) The range of the salaries of active teachers employed by the school district or 44 charter school, listed from the lowest to the highest salary paid, and a listing of the 45 salaries of active teachers in one-thousand-dollar increments with each increment 46 containing the number of teachers paid a salary within that increment; 47 (e) The amount of expended moneys; 48 (f) The funding source of the expended moneys; 49 (g) The date of the expenditure; 50 (h) The name of the budget program, activity, or category supporting the 51 expenditure; 52 (i) A description of the purpose for the expenditure; and 53 (j) To the extent possible, a unique identifier for each expenditure. HB 2942 3
54 (3) (a) For the 2027-28 school year and all subsequent school years, each school 55 district and charter school shall annually publish a one-page budget summary that is 56 prominently identified on the school district's or charter school's website home page. 57 (b) Such one-page budget summary shall be distributed at every public meeting 58 of the district's school board and of the charter school's governing board at which 59 school finance is discussed. 60 (c) The one-page budget summary shall include per-pupil expenditures for the 61 current budget year and actual expenditures for the two preceding school years and 62 shall include spending from all funding sources net of transfers. 63 (d) Per-pupil expenditures shall be calculated based on full-time equivalent 64 (FTE) enrollment and itemized as follows: 65 a. Instruction; 66 b. Student support; 67 c. Instructional staff support; 68 d. Administration; 69 e. Operation and maintenance; 70 f. Transportation; 71 g. Food service; 72 h. All other current spending; 73 i. Capital outlay; 74 j. Debt service; and 75 k. Total expenditures, which is the sum of amounts listed in subparagraphs a. to 76 j. of this subdivision. 77 (4) (a) Each school district and charter school shall annually publish a list of all 78 unencumbered carryover cash balances for each fund maintained. 79 (b) The unencumbered carryover cash balance report shall be prominently 80 identified on the school district's or charter school's website home page and provided to 81 each member of the district's school board and the charter school's governing board 82 within forty-five days after the close of the budget year. 83 (5) If the public school district or charter school does not provide the aforementioned 84 detailed financial and budgetary information on its website, then a direct link to the 85 department of elementary and secondary education's website, which has detailed financial and 86 budgetary information about the public school district or charter school including, but not 87 limited to, the data described in subdivisions (2) to (4) of this subsection, shall be 88 provided on the district's website. 89 (6) The site shall contain only information that is a public record or that is not 90 confidential or otherwise protected from public disclosure under state or federal law. HB 2942 4
91 2. The public school district or charter school shall, to the extent practicable, update 92 the financial data contained on the site no less frequently than every [quarter] month and 93 provide the data in [a structured] an open-structured, machine-readable format. The public 94 school district or charter school shall archive the financial data, which shall remain accessible 95 and searchable, for a minimum of ten years. 96 3. By January 1, 2019, the department of elementary and secondary education shall 97 create a template for voluntary use by school districts needing assistance with the online 98 posting of the information specified in subsection 1 of this section. The template may include 99 both the type of electronic file posted as well as the information to be included in the posting. 100 The department may take into consideration any existing templates or reports developed by 101 the department for purposes of financial reporting. In the event that a school district or 102 charter school does not maintain a website, this information shall be accessible through the 103 department. 104 4. Nothing in this section shall direct or require a school district or charter school to 105 post online any personal information relating to payroll including, but not limited to, payroll 106 deductions, payroll contributions, or any other information that is confidential or otherwise 107 protected from public disclosure under state or federal law. 108 5. A school district's or charter school's failure to comply with a requirement of 109 this section shall result in the following: 110 (1) Mandatory notification to the department of elementary and secondary 111 education; 112 (2) Required corrective action; and 113 (3) Withholding of administrative funds if noncompliance continues for more 114 than one hundred eighty days. ✔
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