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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 1960

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


SENATE BILL

No. 1374 Session of 2008


        INTRODUCED BY LAVALLE, MUSTO, STACK, TARTAGLIONE, STOUT,
           FONTANA, MELLOW, C. WILLIAMS, COSTA, FERLO, HUGHES, PIPPY,
           BOSCOLA, BROWNE, O'PAKE, RHOADES, WASHINGTON AND WOZNIAK,
           APRIL 24, 2008

        REFERRED TO EDUCATION, APRIL 24, 2008

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
     2     act relating to the public school system, including certain
     3     provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
     4     schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
     5     laws relating thereto," further providing for special
     6     education payments to school districts.

     7     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     8  hereby enacts as follows:
     9     Section 1.  Sections 2509.1 and 2509.5 of the act of March
    10  10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of
    11  1949, are amended by adding subsections to read:
    12     Section 2509.1.  Payments to Intermediate Units.--* * *
    13     (b.16)  Up to eleven million five hundred thousand dollars
    14  ($11,500,000) may be utilized for programs administered and
    15  operated by intermediate units during the 2008-2009 school year
    16  for institutionalized children as established in subsection
    17  (b.1).
    18     * * *
    19     Section 2509.5.  Special Education Payments to School

     1  Districts.--* * *
     2     (zz)  During the 2008-2009 school year, each school district
     3  shall be paid the amount it received during the 2007-2008 school
     4  year under subsections (vv), (ww), (xx) and (yy).
     5     (aaa)  During the 2008-2009 school year, twenty-seven million
     6  eight hundred one thousand seven hundred seventy-two dollars
     7  ($27,801,772) of the funds appropriated to the Department of
     8  Education for special education shall be used to provide
     9  supplemental funding for special education to all school
    10  districts. Each school district shall receive a funding
    11  supplement calculated as follows:
    12     (1)  multiply each school district's 2008-2009 market
    13  value/income aid ratio by sixteen percent (16%) of its 2007-2008
    14  average daily membership;
    15     (2)  multiply the product from paragraph (1) by twenty-six
    16  million seven hundred thousand and two dollars ($26,700,002);
    17  and
    18     (3)  divide the resultant product from paragraph (2) by the
    19  sum of the products of the 2008-2009 market value/income aid
    20  ratio multiplied by sixteen percent (16%) of the 2007-2008
    21  average daily membership for all school districts.
    22     (bbb)  Each school district shall receive an inflation index
    23  supplement as necessary so that the amounts under subsection
    24  (aaa) and this subsection equal four and four tenths percent
    25  (4.4%) multiplied by each school district's 2008-2009 market
    26  value/income aid ratio of the amount in subsection (zz).
    27     (ccc)  Each school district for which the sum of the
    28  supplements under subsections (aaa) and (bbb) provides an amount
    29  less than two percent (2%) of the amount provided under
    30  subsection (zz) shall receive additional funding as necessary so
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     1  that the sum of the amounts provided under subsections (aaa) and
     2  (bbb) and this subsection equals two percent (2%) of the amount
     3  provided under subsection (zz).
     4     Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2008, or
     5  immediately, whichever is later.

















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