THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY ERICKSON, TOMLINSON, GREENLEAF, FONTANA, RAFFERTY, PIPPY, PICCOLA, SCHWANK, COSTA, EARLL AND MENSCH, APRIL 12, 2012

REFERRED TO EDUCATION, APRIL 12, 2012  

AN ACT

Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An

act relating to the public school system, including certain

provisions applicable as well to private and parochial

schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the

laws relating thereto," in pupils and attendance, further

providing for cost of tuition and maintenance of certain

exceptional children in approved institutions and for actual

cost of tuition and maintenance of certain exceptional

children in the four chartered schools for education of the

deaf and the blind.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Sections 1376(a.2)(1) and 1376.1(b.2)(1) of the

act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public

School Code of 1949, amended July 4, 2004 (P.L.536, No.70), are

amended to read:

Section 1376.  Cost of Tuition and Maintenance of Certain

Exceptional Children in Approved Institutions.--* * *

(a.2)  For the 2005-2006 school year and each school year

thereafter, the Department of Education shall determine the

payment amount for each approved private school for all students

enrolled in an approved private school for the prior school year

as follows:

(1)  (i)  Multiply the payment determined for the immediate

preceding school year by one hundred and twenty-five percent

(125%) of the percentage increase in the appropriation for

special education for the fiscal year prior to the fiscal year

in which payments under this subsection are made.

(ii)  Add the product from subparagraph (i) to the payment

determined for the immediate preceding school year.

(iii)  In any fiscal year in which there is no increase in

the State appropriation for special education, the increase for

the approved private schools in any following fiscal year shall

be calculated by applying the multiplier in subparagraph (i) to

the percentage increase in the appropriation of the approved

private schools from the last fiscal year in which there was an

increase in the approved private schools' State appropriations.

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Section 1376.1.  Actual Cost of Tuition and Maintenance of

Certain Exceptional Children in the Four Chartered Schools for

Education of the Deaf and the Blind.--* * *

(b.2)  Payments are as follows:

(1)  For the 2005-2006 school year and each school year

thereafter, the department shall determine the payment amount

for each chartered school for all students enrolled in a

chartered school for the prior school year as follows:

(i)  Multiply the payment determined for the immediate

preceding school year by one hundred and twenty-five percent

(125%) of the percentage increase in the appropriation for

special education for the fiscal year prior to the fiscal year

in which payments under this subsection are made.

(ii)  Add the product under subparagraph (i) to the payment

determined for the immediately preceding school year.

(iii)  In any fiscal year in which there is no increase in

the State appropriation for special education, the increase for

the chartered schools for the deaf and blind in any following

fiscal year shall be calculated by applying the multiplier in

subparagraph (i) to the percentage increase in the appropriation

of the chartered schools from the last fiscal year in which

there was an increase in the chartered schools' State

appropriations.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.