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                                           AN ACT

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                   IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

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To amend the Board of Education Continuity and Transition Amendment Act of 2004 to extend

      the due date for the Mayor to submit a report to the Office of the State Superintendent of

      Education of the previous school years actual expenditures for each school; to amend the

      Uniform Per Student Funding Formula for Public Schools and Public Charter Schools

      Amendment Act of 1998 to extend the due date for every local education agency to

      provide the Office of the State Superintendent of Education with data related to the

      expenditures of at-risk student funding; and to amend the District of Columbia School

      Reform Act of 1995 to extend the due date for the Board of Trustees for each public

      charter school to submit actual expenditure data for the prior year to the Office of the

      State Superintendent of Education, and to clarify that the Board of Trustees for each

      public charter school need only submit the current school years budget and the draft

      budget for the following school year to the Public Charter School Board.

       BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this

act may be cited as the School Financial Transparency Amendment Act of 2021.

       Sec. 2. Section 6(g) of the Board of Education Continuity and Transition Amendment Act

of 2004, effective December 7, 2004 (D.C. Law 15-211; D.C. Official Code  38-2831(g)), is

amended by striking the phrase By December 1, 2023 and inserting the phrase By March 31,

2024 in its place.

        Sec. 3. Section 106a(d) of the Uniform Per Student Funding Formula for Public Schools

and Public Charter Schools Act of 1998, effective February 22, 2014 (D.C. Law 20-87; D.C.

Official Code  38-2905.01(d)), is amended as follows:

        (a) Strike the phrase Beginning December 31, 2023 and insert the phrase By March

31, 2024 in its place.

        (b) Strike the phrase such funds consistent and insert the phrase such funds for the

previous school year consistent in its place.

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         Sec. 4. Section 2204(c)(23) of the District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995,

approved April 26, 1996 (110 Stat. 1321; D.C. Official Code  38-1802.04(c)(23)), is amended

to read as follows:

                 (23) School expenditures and budgets. 

                        (A) By March 31, 2024, and annually thereafter, the Board of Trustees of

each public charter school shall prepare and submit to OSSE, for each campus under its control,

actual expenditure data for the prior school year.

                        (B) Beginning July 29, 2022, and annually thereafter, the Board of

Trustees of each public charter school shall prepare and submit to the Public Charter School

Board, for each campus under its control, the current school years budget and a draft budget for

the following school year.

                        (C) The data submitted pursuant to subparagraphs (A) and (B) of this

paragraph shall conform to the common financial reporting standards established by the

Department of Education pursuant to section 202(b)(10) of the Department of Education

Establishment Act of 2007, effective June 12, 2007 (D.C. Law 17-9; D.C. Official Code  38-

191(b)(10)).

                        (D) The Public Charter School Board shall electronically publish the data

it receives pursuant to subparagraph (B) of this paragraph in a uniform manner for each school

by November 1 of each year..

       Sec. 5. Fiscal impact statement.

       The Council adopts the fiscal impact statement in the committee report as the fiscal

impact statement required by section 4a of the General Legislative Procedures Act of 1975,

approved October 16, 2006 (120 Stat. 2038; D.C. Official Code  1-301.47a).

       Sec. 6. Effective date.

       This act shall take effect following approval by the Mayor (or in the event of veto by the

Mayor, action by Council to override the veto), a 30-day period of congressional review as

provided in section 602(c)(1) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December

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24, 1973 (87 Stat. 813; D.C. Official Code  1-206.02(c)(1)), and publication in the District of

Columbia Register.

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               Chairman

               Council of the District of Columbia

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Mayor

District of Columbia

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