A last-minute bill that would have delayed the reorganization of the Clark County School District by a year is dead without ever receiving a hearing, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Aaron Ford said Wednesday.

Ford’s pronouncement on AB516, which was introduced Monday, comes after a planned Wednesday afternoon hearing was cancelled. A spokeswoman for Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson — who introduced the bill — confirmed the bill wasn’t moving forward, and said she didn’t know if any additional emergency bills addressing the reorganization would be introduced.

The bill would have reduced the amount of money required by the district to transfer to local school precincts from 80 percent of the per-school allotment in the first year and 85 percent every subsequent school year to 70 percent in the first year and 75 percent thereafter. It also removed a requirement that the district maining responsibility for maintenance and custodial services.

A coalition of opponents including the mayors of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson and Mesquite, as well as the Clark County Education Association, had condemned the bill in a statement Tuesday evening.

“These changes risk damaging the reorganization at a critical time and could hurt our students and schools,” the statement said.

CCEA director John Vellardita said the union was prepared to “go toe-to-toe” in opposition to the bill, and characterized it as the latest attempt by district trustees to disrupt or delay the reorganization process.

“We felt like that movie Friday the 13th, they kept coming back to try and roll the clock back,” he said. “Part one was they didn’t support the original law, part two was was they didn’t support the (regulations), part three was they went to court, part four was they introduced this. So it was the same thing for the last year and a half, same issue. So it doesn’t have any traction, I think they’ve lost all their credibility on this stuff.”

District officials said they didn’t seek to delay the reorganization overall, although they did confirm they requested funding requirements suspended for the first year and reduced in subsequent years.

Clark County School Trustee Erin Cranor said the district must always refine its focus as the legislative session winds down and tackle its biggest priorities — in this case, the weighted funding formula and money for a new human capital management system, which school officials see as key to implementing the reorganization.

“That’s where the focus has to be at this point,” Cranor said. “Those two things matter the most. I don’t think there are enough days left in the session to really give attention to much else.”

School Trustee Deanna Wright, who serves as the board’s president, echoed Cranor’s thoughts and added that she doesn’t want to see education used as leverage the next few days.

“We truly are not looking to pick a fight,” Wright said. “We’re not looking to get on anybody’s bad side, but it’s time to stop using education as a bargaining chip.”

Vellardita said he was confident that the provisions in the bill wouldn’t surface again before the scheduled end of the 120-day session on Monday

“It’s dead,” he said. “Dead. RIP, Rest in Peace.”

Feature photo: Members of the Jim Bridger Middle School organizational team — a key component of the reorganization — gather at the school's library on Wednesday, Feb. 08, 2017. Photo by Jeff Scheid.