Arizona Laws 15-1202. Special education fund account; administration; expenditure limitation
A. There is established a separate account within the fund which shall consist of legislative appropriations to the account for special education institutional vouchers.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 15-1202
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Fiscal year: means the year beginning July 1 and ending June 30. See Arizona Laws 15-101
- Fund: means the special education fund established by section 15-1182. See Arizona Laws 15-1201
- person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association or public or private organization of any kind. See Arizona Laws 15-101
- Special education: means the adjustment of the environmental factors, modification of the course of study and adaptation of teaching methods, materials and techniques to provide educationally for those children who are at least three but not more than twenty-one years of age and who are gifted or have a disability to such an extent that they do not profit from the regular course of study or need special education services in order to profit. See Arizona Laws 15-1201
B. The account shall be administered by the superintendent of public instruction for the purposes provided in this article.
C. Each fiscal year the state board of education shall include in its budget request for assistance to schools a separate line item for the account.
D. The total amount of state monies that may be spent in any fiscal year by the superintendent of public instruction for the purposes of this article shall not exceed the amount appropriated or authorized by section 35-173 for that purpose. This article shall not be construed to impose a duty on an officer, agent or employee of this state to discharge a responsibility or to create any right in a person or group if the discharge or right would require an expenditure of state monies in excess of the expenditure authorized by legislative appropriation for that specific purpose.