Bill > H435

This bill aims to ensure fairness in how regional school transportation funding is handled by preventing reductions through "9C cuts," which are administrative budget reductions made by the Governor, and instead requiring any such reductions to be approved by a vote of the Legislature. Furthermore, the bill stipulates that any legislative reductions to regional school transportation funding cannot exceed the percentage reduction applied to Chapter 70 school aid, a primary state funding mechanism for public schools, thereby creating a parity in how these two important educational funding streams are affected by budget adjustments.