HB227 HFA Ellington and E. Pritt 10-8 #1

Kidd 4753

Delegates Ellington and E. Pritt moved to amend the bill on page 9, subsection (o), line 209, by striking the entirety of the subsection and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"(o) Notwithstanding the provisions of West Virginia Code §18-9D-15 or §18-9D-16, a public charter school may, in its name and sole discretion, submit application to the School Building Authority for funding for costs associated with the renovating, remodeling, purchase or construction of a building to be used for public charter school purposes and for the cost of the project, and the authority may, in its sole discretion, approve such amount of funding as it determines appropriate, in its sole discretion, for such project from monies appropriated to the authority for the benefit of public charter schools. In the event that a public charter school closes, and the public charter school used School Building Authority funding for its building, the building shall be returned to the authorizer, as defined in §18-5G-2 of this code, for purposes of ownership. If the building cannot be returned to the authorizer, the building shall be returned to the state. Additionally, if School Building Authority funds were used to improve an existing property, the School Building Authority is authorized to develop a formula to determine the monetary amount of improvements to be returned to either the authorizer or the state."

Adopted

Rejected