General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6611
January Session, 2015 LCO No. 2711
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Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
REP. JUTILA, 37th Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 6611
January Session, 2015
LCO No. 2711
*02711*
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
REP. JUTILA, 37th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE MINIMUM BUDGET REQUIREMENT FOR TOWNS WITH DECLINING STUDENT ENROLLMENT.
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) 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 (2) 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 allow school districts to reduce their budgets in an amount that reflects the degree of declining enrollment.