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| 5 | 5 | | 2023 -- S 0066 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LC000951 |
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| 9 | 9 | | S TATE OF RHODE IS LAND |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 11 | 11 | | JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2023 |
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| 12 | 12 | | ____________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | A N A C T |
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| 15 | 15 | | RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX |
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| 16 | 16 | | RELIEF ACT |
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| 17 | 17 | | Introduced By: Senators Rogers, de la Cruz, DeLuca, Paolino, E Morgan, and Pearson |
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| 18 | 18 | | Date Introduced: February 01, 2023 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Referred To: Senate Finance |
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| 22 | 22 | | It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. Section 16-7.2-4 of the General Laws in Chapter 16-7.2 entitled "The 1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Education Equity and Property Tax Relief Act" is hereby amended to read as follows: 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | 16-7.2-4. Determination of state’s share. 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | (a) For each district, the state’s share of the foundation education aid calculated pursuant 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | to § 16-7.2-3(a) shall use a calculation that considers a district’s revenue-generating capacity and 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | concentration of high-need students. The calculation is the square root of the sum of the state-share 6 |
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| 29 | 29 | | ratio for the community calculation, pursuant to § 16-7-20, squared plus the district’s percentage 7 |
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| 30 | 30 | | of students in grades PK-6 in poverty status squared, divided by two. 8 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (b) For purposes of determining the state’s share, school district student data used in this 9 |
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| 32 | 32 | | calculation shall include charter school and state school students. These ratios are used in the 10 |
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| 33 | 33 | | permanent foundation education aid formula calculation described in § 16-7.2-5. 11 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (c) In any given fiscal year, the total education aid paid to a local education agency, 12 |
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| 35 | 35 | | including distributed categorical funds, shall not be reduced by more than one percent (1%) of the 13 |
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| 36 | 36 | | municipal education appropriation to the local education agency in the previous fiscal year. 14 |
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| 37 | 37 | | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. 15 |
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| 43 | 43 | | LC000951 - Page 2 of 2 |
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| 44 | 44 | | EXPLANATION |
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| 45 | 45 | | BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL |
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| 46 | 46 | | OF |
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| 47 | 47 | | A N A C T |
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| 48 | 48 | | RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX |
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| 49 | 49 | | RELIEF ACT |
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| 50 | 50 | | *** |
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| 51 | 51 | | This act would prohibit total education aid paid to any local education agency from being 1 |
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| 52 | 52 | | reduced by more than one percent (1%) of the municipal education appropriation in the previous 2 |
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| 53 | 53 | | fiscal year. 3 |
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| 54 | 54 | | This act would take effect upon passage. 4 |
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