Bill Text: CT SB00340 | 2015 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Certain Revisions To The Calculation Of The Minimum Budget Requirement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-22 - Referred to Joint Committee on Education [SB00340 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2015-SB00340-Introduced.html
General Assembly |
Proposed Bill No. 340 |
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January Session, 2015 |
LCO No. 1558 | ||||
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Referred to Committee on EDUCATION |
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Introduced by: |
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SEN. FASANO, 34th Dist. SEN. WITKOS, 8th Dist. |
AN ACT CONCERNING CERTAIN REVISIONS TO THE CALCULATION OF THE MINIMUM BUDGET REQUIREMENT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
That subsection (d) of section 10-262i of the general statutes be amended to (1) remove special education costs from the calculation of a town's minimum budget requirements, (2) repeal the limit that a school district may reduce its budgeted appropriation for education in an amount not to exceed one-half of one per cent of the district's budgeted appropriation for education when a district experiences a decline in the number of resident students, and (3) increase the multiplier from three thousand to six thousand in the calculation allowing a town to reduce its budgeted appropriation for education when the number of resident students of such town decreases.
Statement of Purpose:
To provide relief to municipalities by reforming the calculation of a town's minimum budget requirement.