H.P. 1449 - L.D. 2040
An Act to Amend the Law Relating to Special Education Out-of-district Placements
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §7302, sub-§3, ¶B, as enacted by PL 1981, c. 693, §§5 and 8, is amended to read:
B. Private schools that have an exclusive contract with a school administrative unit for the provision of secondary education or that have a student enrollment with greater than 60% public tuition students are exempted from the provision of paragraph A and shall must be treated as public schools for the computation of special education tuition rates.
Sec. 2. 20-A MRSA §15612, sub-§11, as repealed and replaced by PL 1989, c. 878, Pt. D, §7, is amended to read:
11. Special education tuition and costs for out-of-district placement adjustment. A school administrative unit which that places a student in an out-of-district placement shall, in a regional program established consistent with section 7253 or in a regional program recognized by the department prior to July 1, 1997 must receive an adjustment equal to the amount, if any, by which the tuition, treatment and room and board costs for an approved out-of-district special education placement in the year of allocation exceeds 3 times the secondary foundation per pupil operating rate for that year, or a prorated amount if the placement is less than a full year. State payments to school administrative units pursuant to this subsection shall must be made during the year of allocation. The funds for the adjustment shall be are limited to the amount appropriated by the Legislature for that purpose, and the department is authorized to prorate payments to units if the amount appropriated is insufficient to make full payments to all units.
Effective July 9, 1998, unless otherwise indicated.
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