Title 15 — Education

A. To encourage the exchange of technological expertise, new research development and other valuable information between private enterprise and the university system in this state and to facilitate the transfer of technology developed by officers or employees of universities unde…

A. The board shall not lease real property located in an area defined as a research park pursuant to section 35-701 unless the lease contains a covenant that prohibits unlimited manufacturing on the site and allows the board to enforce the covenant by appropriate means, which may…

A. The Arizona board of regents may lease real property, improvements or personal property owned by the board to a nonprofit corporation as lessee for purposes of operating a health care institution as defined in section 36-401. If the board leases such property for such purposes…

A. A nonprofit corporation that is a lessee pursuant to section 15-1637, subsection A shall disclose and make available records and other matters in the same manner as is required of a public body pursuant to title 39, chapter 1, except that the nonprofit corporation is not requi…

A. The three universities under the jurisdiction of the board of regents shall each establish a comprehensive plan to initiate new programs and expand existing student recruitment and retention programs directed at economically disadvantaged, minority and underrepresented student…

A. The following records of a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents are exempt from title 39, chapter 1, article 2: 1. Information or intellectual property that is not available to the public and that is a trade secret as defined in section 44-401 or t…

A. The Arizona board of regents shall establish a separate university collegiate special plate fund for each university, as described in section 15-1601, consisting of monies received by the board from collegiate plate annual donations for universities pursuant to section 28-2412…

A. The Arizona board of regents may establish a financial aid trust fund for the purposes of providing immediate aid to students with verifiable financial need, including students who are underrepresented in the population of university students or who by virtue of their special …

A. The Arizona board of regents shall establish the Arizona area health education system in the college of medicine of the university of Arizona. The board shall appoint a system director. B. The system shall consist of six area health education centers administered by the direct…

A. The Arizona board of regents shall appoint a statewide area health education centers commission consisting of not fewer than ten members and not more than twenty members who are knowledgeable about the delivery of health care in this state. Members of the commission shall advi…

A. Each area health education center located in this state may grant and administer a scholarship in an amount of not more than eight thousand dollars for each student for each school year to at least two students who are residents of the center's geographic area and who are enro…

The universities under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents shall establish policies that ensure fair and equitable access by Arizona students from public, private and charter schools and homeschools to scholarships, including tuition waivers, that are issued solely o…

B. Any university that offers assistance pursuant to subsection A of this section shall cooperate and coordinate with the faculty of a cooperative extension in this state that has a program to support the economic vitality of rural communities and the use of natural resources in …

A. The technology and research initiative fund is established consisting of revenues transferred to the fund pursuant to section 42-5029, subsection E, paragraph 2 and section 42-5029.02, subsection A, paragraph 2. The Arizona board of regents shall administer the fund. The monie…

A. The finalist for a security or safety-sensitive position at a university that is under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents shall be fingerprinted as a condition of employment. The finalist shall submit a full set of fingerprints to the university for the purpose o…

A. On or before December 1 of each year, the Arizona board of regents shall submit to the governor, the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives and the joint legislative budget committee a financial aid report with information from the two prior fisca…

A. The hospitality studies scholarship fund is established consisting of revenues available to the fund from any lawful source. The Arizona board of regents shall administer the fund and may partner with any statewide lodging and tourism association that provides matching monies …

The Arizona board of regents may establish an energy and water savings account in the same manner as a school district pursuant to section 15-910.02 and may fund and use monies for guaranteed energy savings contracts pursuant to section 34-105.

1. The use of instructional fees at each university, including differentiating between mandatory fees, program fees and course fees. 2. Differentiated costs between programs of study, including differential tuition and program and course fees. 3. The costs of faculty and administ…

Notwithstanding any other law, the Arizona board of regents or a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents may not use the state general fund appropriation for contracts with individuals or entities for lobbying services.

(L21, Ch. 410, sec. 2) A. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the Arizona board of regents, a public university or a community college may not require that a student obtain a COVID-19 vaccination or show proof of receiving a COVID-19 vaccination or place any conditions …

A. The Arizona veterinary loan assistance program is established within the Arizona board of regents. B. The Arizona veterinary loan assistance fund is established consisting of legislative appropriations. The board shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund are continuously a…

A. Every teacher training school established in connection with the state universities shall be a part of the school system and a branch of the school district within which the training school is located. B. Training schools shall be governed by the laws and regulations relating …

A. Every teacher training school shall be under the supervision and management of the Arizona board of regents. All teachers in the school, except the principal, shall be employed by the Arizona board of regents and the governing board of the school district in which the training…

The Arizona board of regents and the governing board of the school district in which a teacher training school is located shall jointly prescribe rules and regulations governing admission and attendance at the training school of children of school age who reside within the school…

On or before January 1, 1993, each university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents shall establish qualifications for entrance into the teacher training program of its respective colleges of education.

(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) A. Eligible postsecondary institutions shall implement an Arizona teachers academy to incentivize students to enter the teaching profession and to commit to teach in Arizona public schools or for or in schools that serve primarily public school s…

Each teacher, school counselor or school social worker training program in this state shall develop or adopt evidenced-based instruction on suicide awareness and prevention and provide that instruction to all teacher, school counselor and school social worker candidates in the re…

B. The loans issued under this section shall be used to cover the costs of tuition and mandatory fees for each loan recipient and may also defray the cost of instructional materials, but shall exclude all grants, scholarships and tuition benefits such as military, tribal and empl…

A. There shall be appropriated in the general appropriation bill for each fiscal year a sum of monies not less than eighty-five one-hundredths of one mill on the dollar of the assessed valuation of all taxable property in the state for the improvement, support and maintenance of …

A. The state treasurer shall maintain the following separate permanent funds and accounts: 1. Universities land fund established by section 37-522. Distributions from the fund pursuant to article X, section 7, Constitution of Arizona, and monies derived from the lease, sale or ot…

A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, the Arizona board of regents may expend, as it deems expedient and as is not inconsistent with the provisions of any appropriation, the income of the land funds established pursuant to the enabling act in accordance with the …

All monies for the use and benefit of an institution under its jurisdiction shall be expended under the direction and control of the Arizona board of regents for the support and maintenance of such institution, buildings and grounds, and for any other purpose the board deems expe…

The Arizona board of regents may accept grants of monies from the United States or any of its officers or agencies designated or created to make grants for public construction work, or from any individual, group of individuals, corporation or association.

Monies obtained by the universities from the United States under special acts of Congress for specific purposes shall be deposited in a special fund by the board, and it shall be administered in accordance with the purpose of the act of Congress.

The state assents to the provisions and accepts the benefits of the act of Congress entitled "an act to authorize the more complete endowment of agricultural experiment stations and for other purposes, approved February 24, 1925." The Arizona board of regents is designated as a s…

A. Monies deposited by the universities shall be secured by regularly issued and interest-bearing bonds of the United States government or state, county, municipal or school district improvement bonds of this state of a market value equal at all times to the amount of the deposit…

A. The Arizona board of regents may provide for payment of annual salaries of any person appointed or employed as provided in section 15-1626, subsection A, paragraph 2, over a twelve month pay period pursuant to agreement between such person and the board. B. The Arizona board o…

A. In fiscal years 2017-2018 through 2030-2031, the following sums are appropriated from the state general fund to Arizona state university for lease-purchase capital financing for research infrastructure projects: 1. In fiscal year 2017-2018, $13,481,000. 2. In fiscal year 2018-…

A. A capital infrastructure fund is established for each university. Monies in each capital infrastructure fund are continuously appropriated for the purposes of this section. Each university shall administer its own capital infrastructure fund. Monies in the capital infrastructu…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Acquire" includes to purchase, lease, lease-purchase, erect, build, construct, reconstruct, raze, remodel, repair, replace, alter, extend, expand, better, equip, furnish, develop, improve and embellish a project, and the…

The board shall have power for each institution, as defined in this article, to: 1. Acquire, if authorized by the legislature, any project or projects, or any combination thereof, and to secure indirect or third-party financing for or own, operate and maintain the same and establ…

A. Any lease-purchase agreement executed by the board relating to land acquisition, capital projects, energy systems or energy management systems shall provide that: 1. The obligation of this state to make any payment under the agreement is a current expense of the board and is n…

1. The term of the indirect or third party financing does not exceed the earlier of forty years or the useful life of the capital improvements. 2. The project for which indirect or third party financing is secured is reviewed by the joint committee on capital review. Private enti…

A. The university capital improvement lease-to-own and bond fund is established consisting of the monies provided by the Arizona board of regents pursuant to this section, monies deposited pursuant to section 5-572 and monies appropriated by the legislature. The board shall admin…

A. The board shall have power, and is hereby authorized from time to time, to issue bonds: 1. To acquire any one project, or more than one, or any combination thereof, for such institution, if both of the following conditions are met: (a) As of the date of issuance of bonds or ce…

The board shall have power, and is hereby authorized from time to time, to issue refunding bonds: 1. To refund unpaid matured bonds. 2. To refund unpaid matured coupons evidencing interest upon its unpaid matured bonds. 3. To refund interest at the coupon rate upon its unpaid mat…

In connection with the issuance of any bonds under this article, and in order to secure the payment of any such bonds and the interest thereon, the board shall have power for each institution: 1. To fix, maintain and collect: (a) Fees, tuitions, rentals and other charges from stu…

All acts granting authority to the board to construct or acquire any buildings, projects or facilities and to issue bonds therefor shall be kept in full force and effect but shall be supplemented by this enactment if both of the following occur: 1. Bonds remain authorized but not…

The provisions of this article and of any resolution or other proceeding authorizing the issuance of bonds shall constitute a contract with the holders of such bonds and the provisions thereof shall be enforceable either in law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus or other pro…