HB536 (2016) Detail

Relative to payment for special education services for chartered public school students and relative to federal funds for chartered public schools.


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CHAPTER 22

HB 536 - FINAL VERSION

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2016 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL\t\t536

 

AN ACT\trelative to payment for special education services for chartered public school students and relative to federal funds for chartered public schools.

 

SPONSORS:\tRep. Burton, Straf 6

 

COMMITTEE:\tEducation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

\tThis 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:\tMatter added to current law appears in bold italics.

\t\tMatter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

\t\tMatter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

 

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

 

AN ACT\trelative 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:

 

\t22:1  Chartered Public Schools; Funding.  Amend RSA 194-B:11, I(b)(1) to read as follows:

\t\t\t(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 resident district.

\t22:2  Chartered Public Schools; Funding.  Amend RSA 194-B:11, IV to read as follows:

\t\tIV.  [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 school districts under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

\t22:3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

 

Approved: April 25, 2016

Effective Date: June 24, 2016