Allocating hotel and motel taxes to schools that begin school calendar years after Labor Day, creating an alternate school start date fund, and making appropriations

This bill allocates hotel and motel taxes to schools that begin the school calendar year after Labor Day. The bill provides that a school district or accredited nonpublic school may move the school start date to after Labor Day.10(1). The bill provides that if the school district or accredited nonpublic school has set the hours of required attendance, the school district or accredited nonpublic school shall fulfill the 1,080 hours of instruction requirement during the calendar year as if the year started on August 23, except for any days that may be added to the school calendar due to inclement weather. The bill requires the department of revenue to remit the state-imposed hotel and motel tax collected from August through Labor Day of any year to the alternate school start date fund established in the bill. The bill creates an alternate school start date fund as a separate fund in the state treasury. The fund shall be under the control of and administered by the department of education and shall be used to provide support to a school district or accredited nonpublic school whose school calendar began after Labor Day. The moneys in the fund shall be allocated to each school district and accredited nonpublic school on a pro rata basis.2. However, the bill specifies that such moneys shall not be included in district cost.