Connecticut 2015 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00091 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/15/2015

                            General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 91
January Session, 2015  LCO No. 656
 *00656*
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
SEN. WITKOS, 8th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 91 

January Session, 2015

LCO No. 656

*00656*

Referred to Committee on EDUCATION 

Introduced by:

SEN. WITKOS, 8th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE CALCULATION OF 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 extend to fiscal years 2016 and 2017 the provisions of said subsection (d) and to increase the multiplier from three thousand to seven thousand in the calculation allowing a town to reduce its budgeted appropriation for education when the resident student population of such town decreases.

Statement of Purpose: 

To increase the amount in which a town may reduce its minimum budget requirement when the student population for such town decreases.