SB373 HFIN AMT 3-10                                        JHJ

    Com. Sub. for S. B. 373 –- “A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-9D-4c; to amend and reenact §18-9D-15 of said Code; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-9D-19a, all relating to funding and financing comprehensive middle schools and other School Building Authority projects and expenditures; providing the School Building authority the ability to temporarily finance project costs and expenditures for public schools through loans, notes or other financing; limiting the amount of outstanding loans, notes or other financing; providing that principal, interest and premium on loans, notes or other financing must be paid from certain sources; allowing, upon application by a county board of education, the School Building Authority to allocate and expend certain moneys for school major improvement projects for vocational programs at comprehensive middle schools; providing legislative findings; providing for definition of “comprehensive middle high school” by state board rule; providing minimum contents of rule; requiring the authority, when planning the construction of a middle or junior high school, to provide funding for a comprehensive middle school that includes comprehensive career technical education facilities to be located, when feasible, on the same site as the middle or junior high school under certain conditions; requiring the authority, upon application of a county board to construct comprehensive career technical education facilities that would allow an existing middle or junior high school to become a comprehensive middle school, to provide technical assistance to the county in developing a plan for construction of the comprehensive career technical education facility; and requiring, upon development of the plan, the authority to consider funding based on certain criteria.”.