The Department of Education shall adopt rules necessary to implement this paragraph. Rules adopted by the Department of Education to implement this paragraph are major substantive rules pursuant to Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter II-A 2-A;

SUMMARY

This bill provides that a school administrative unit engaged in a lease-purchase agreement for temporary interim nonadministrative space is eligible for state support beyond the 10-year limit if the school administrative unit has a major capital improvement application on file with the Department of Education and is not rated high enough by the department using the department's rating scale compared to other school administrative units to obtain funding to correct problems with its facilities. The school administrative unit is eligible for state support until it obtains funding to correct problems with its facilities.