| HP0368 LD 484 |
First Regular Session - 123rd Legislature - Text: MS-Word, RTF or PDF |
LR 1291 Item 4 |
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Amend the amendment in section 1 by striking out all of subsection 4 and inserting the following:
Amend the amendment by striking out all of sections 2 and 3 and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 2. 20-A MRSA §3253-A, sub-§3, as amended by PL 1985, c. 603, §1 and PL 2005, c. 397, Pt. D, §3, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
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This amendment removes the requirement in the Committee Amendment "A" that requires the Commissioner of Education to pay up to 110% of the receiving school administrative unit's established tuition rate for each elementary school student who is a tuition student from the unorganized territories and up to 110% of the state average per public secondary student cost for each secondary school student who is a tuition student from the unorganized territories. This amendment also removes the requirement from Committee Amendment "A" that requires the Commissioner of Education to compute the tuition paid for each tuition student and allocate the tuition costs to the property owners from the unorganized unit where the tuition student resides.
Instead, this amendment requires the Commissioner of Education to pay each receiving unit's actual per student cost incurred for educating students in that receiving unit for both elementary and secondary students from the unorganized territories. This amendment removes the provision in current law that allows the commissioner to pay the lesser of the actual cost or the State average per-pupil cost.