HB 536 - AS INTRODUCED
2015 SESSION
04/03
HOUSE BILL 536
AN ACT relative to payment for special education services for chartered public school students and relative to federal funds for chartered public schools.
SPONSORS: Rep. Burton, Straf 6
This bill provides that funding for chartered public school students receiving special education services be paid directly to the school district in which the student resides. The bill also excludes Individuals with Disabilities Education Act funds from the requirement that school districts direct certain federal funds to a chartered public school.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
15-0496
04/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen
AN ACT relative to payment for special education services for chartered public school students and relative to federal funds for chartered public schools.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Chartered Public Schools; Funding. Amend RSA 194-B:11, I(b)(1) to read as follows:
(b)(1) Except as provided in subparagraph (2), for a chartered public school authorized by the state board of education pursuant to RSA 194-B:3-a, the state shall pay tuition pursuant to RSA?198:40-a, I, II, and II-a plus an additional grant of $2,000 directly to the chartered public school for each pupil who is a resident of this state in attendance at such chartered public school. The state shall pay amounts required pursuant to RSA 198:40-a, III directly to the school district in which the student resides.
2 Chartered Public Schools; Funding. Amend RSA 194-B:11, IV to read as follows:
IV. [Any] Federal or other funding available in any year to a sending district shall, to the extent and in a manner acceptable to the funding source, be directed to a chartered public school in a receiving district on an eligible per pupil basis. This funding shall include, but not be limited to, funding under federal Chapters I and II of Title II, and Drug-Free Schools, in whatever form the funding is available in any year. This paragraph shall not apply to funding available to a sending district under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.