Bill Text: PA SB1155 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Providing for an aid ratio guarantee.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-17 - Referred to EDUCATION [SB1155 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SB1155-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1369
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 1155 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY TOMLINSON, TARTAGLIONE, FONTANA, BROWNE, ERICKSON, RAFFERTY, GREENLEAF, ALLOWAY, SOLOBAY, WAUGH, SCHWANK, BRUBAKER AND MENSCH, JUNE 17, 2011
REFERRED TO EDUCATION, JUNE 17, 2011
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," providing for an aid ratio guarantee.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known
as the Public School Code of 1949, is amended by adding a
section to read:
Section 2509.13. Aid Ratio Guarantee.--During the 2011-2012
school year and each school year thereafter, the Commonwealth
shall pay to each school district the greater of:
(a) the Commonwealth payments to the school district
pursuant to section 2509.5 during the prior school year;
(b) the amount due the school district under section 2509.5;
or
(c) the product of:
(1) the district's market value/personal income aid ratio
reported by the Department of Education for the current school
year or five thousand ten thousandths (.5000), whichever is
greater; and
(2) the district's expenditures on special education
programs in the school year three (3) years before the year for
which these payments are to be made. For the calculation under
this subsection, a district's expenditures on special education
programs shall be:
(i) For each school district belonging to an intermediate
unit, the boundary of which is not coterminous with that of the
district, the amount reported for function code 1200-000 on its
annual financial report as certified by the Department of
Education on the date the Commonwealth's budget is enacted for
that school year.
(ii) For each school district belonging to an intermediate
unit, the boundary of which is coterminous with that of the
district, the amount reported by the intermediate unit as the
total available for instruction on its final expenditure report
for special education programs as certified by the Department of
Education on the date the Commonwealth's budget is enacted for
that school year.
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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