Bill Text: CT SB00816 | 2015 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Establishing A Minimum Level Of Funding Under The Education Cost Sharing Grant Formula.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-24 - Public Hearing 04/02 [SB00816 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2015-SB00816-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Proposed Bill No. 816
January Session, 2015		LCO No. 2715
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Referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS
Introduced by:
SEN. BYE, 5th Dist. SEN. SLOSSBERG, 14th Dist. REP. VERRENGIA, 20th Dist. SEN. DOYLE, 9th Dist. REP. TONG, 147th Dist. REP. MORIN, 28th Dist. SEN. LEONE, 27th Dist. REP. GODFREY, 110th Dist. REP. ROSE, 118th Dist. REP. HAMPTON, 16th Dist. SEN. KENNEDY, 12th Dist. REP. REED, 102nd Dist.			REP. FLEISCHMANN, 18th Dist. REP. ARCONTI, 109th Dist. SEN. CASSANO, 4th Dist. REP. SIMMONS, 144th Dist. REP. MILLER, 36th Dist. REP. MILLER P., 145th Dist. REP. FOX, 148th Dist. REP. SCANLON, 98th Dist. REP. BECKER, 19th Dist. SEN. MOORE, 22nd Dist. REP. ADAMS, 146th Dist.

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A MINIMUM LEVEL OF FUNDING UNDER THE EDUCATION COST SHARING GRANT FORMULA.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That section 10-262h of the general statutes be amended to require that no town shall receive less than fifty per cent of the education cost sharing grant adjusted fully funded formula.

Statement of Purpose:

To ensure more equitable ECS funding to towns that have experienced growing poverty since the ECS cap was established.