General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 340
January Session, 2015 LCO No. 1558
*01558*
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
SEN. FASANO, 34th Dist. SEN. WITKOS, 8th Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 340
January Session, 2015
LCO No. 1558
*01558*
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
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.