Bill > A3015

Introduced Session

Under current law, a school district is eligible to receive extraordinary special education State aid when the cost of providing direct instructional and support services for an individual classified pupil exceeds $40,000 or $55,000 depending on the pupil's placement. A school district submits an application to the Department of Education detailing those costs and, upon approval of its application, is reimbursed for either 90% or 75% of the amount that exceeds those thresholds, again depending on the nature of the placement. This bill provides that in those instances in which the cost of providing direct instructional and support services to an individual classified pupil exceeds $40,000, but is no more than $55,000, a school district will receive 100% of the amount of the excess paid to it directly by the State. In those instances in which the cost of providing direct instructional and support services for an individual classified pupil exceeds $55,000, a school district will receive 100% of the amount of the excess paid to it directly by the county in which the school district is located. The bill provides that the State will reimburse the county for the amount of extraordinary special education aid paid by the county to school districts. The bill establishes a county tax levy cap exclusion in order to accommodate the payment by the county of extraordinary special education aid to school districts. The bill also requires that all property tax bills include a separate line that indicates the amount of tax levy being raised to support extraordinary special education aid.

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Clinton Calabrese (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee (on 01/09/2024)

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