PRINTER'S NO. 1224
No. 1048 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY McILVAINE SMITH, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, CONKLIN,
CURRY, DePASQUALE, FABRIZIO, FRANKEL, FREEMAN, GEORGE,
GRUCELA, HESS, JOSEPHS, KORTZ, KULA, LEACH, MANDERINO, MANN,
MARKOSEK, McILHATTAN, MYERS, PRESTON, RAPP, SOLOBAY, STURLA,
SURRA, THOMAS, WALKO, WANSACZ, YOUNGBLOOD AND YUDICHAK,
APRIL 10, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, APRIL 10, 2007
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.15) Up to eleven million two hundred thousand dollars
14 ($11,200,000) may be utilized for programs administered and
15 operated by intermediate units during the 2007-2008 school year
16 for institutionalized children as established in subsection
17 (b.1).
18 * * *
1 Section 2509.5. Special Education Payments to School
2 Districts.--* * *
3 (vv) During the 2007-2008 school year, each school district
4 shall be paid the amount it received during the 2006-2007 school
5 year under subsections (rr), (ss), (tt) and (uu).
6 (ww) During the 2007-2008 school year, twenty-seven million
7 seven hundred and six thousand one hundred and ninety-seven
8 dollars ($27,706,197) of the funds appropriated to the
9 Department of Education for special education shall be used to
10 provide supplemental funding for special education to all school
11 districts. Each school district shall receive a funding
12 supplement calculated as follows:
13 (1) multiply each school district's 2007-2008 market
14 value/income aid ratio by sixteen percent (16%) of its 2006-2007
15 average daily membership;
16 (2) multiply the product from paragraph (1) by twenty-seven
17 million dollars ($27,000,000); and
18 (3) divide the resultant product from paragraph (2) by the
19 sum of the products of the 2007-2008 market value/income aid
20 ratio multiplied by sixteen percent (16%) of the 2006-2007
21 average daily membership for all school districts.
22 (xx) Each school district shall receive an inflation index
23 supplement as necessary so that the amounts under subsection
24 (ww) and this subsection equal three and four-tenths percent
25 (3.4%) multiplied by each school district's 2007-2008 market
26 value/income aid ratio of the amount in subsection (vv).
27 (yy) Each school district for which the sum of the
28 supplements under subsections (ww) and (xx) provides an amount
29 less than two percent (2%) of the amount provided under
30 subsection (vv) shall receive additional funding as necessary so
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1 that the sum of the amounts provided under subsections (ww),
2 (xx) and this subsection equals two percent (2%) of the amount
3 provided under subsection (vv).
4 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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