General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 553
January Session, 2015 LCO No. 2187
*02187*
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
SEN. HWANG, 28th Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 553
January Session, 2015
LCO No. 2187
*02187*
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
SEN. HWANG, 28th Dist.
AN ACT MAKING 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.