Bill Text: NJ S1747 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for full State funding of the special education costs of students who reside in resource family homes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-17 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee [S1747 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-S1747-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 1747

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 17, 2014

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  DIANE B. ALLEN

District 7 (Burlington)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Provides for full State funding of the special education costs of students who reside in resource family homes.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning the funding of special education costs for public school students who reside in resource family homes and supplementing P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-43 et al.).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-43 et al.) or any other law to the contrary, in addition to the special education categorical aid for which a school district or county vocational school district is eligible pursuant to subsection a. of section 13 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-55), for a special education student who resides in a resource family home, a district shall receive additional State aid in such amount as is required to reimburse the district for any costs associated with providing programs and services to the special education student which exceed the district's average cost of providing programs and services to a student in the district's regular education program, after offset by special education categorical funding and the special education census component of equalization aid.  For the purposes of this section, special education categorical funding shall be calculated as SE / RE, and the special education census component of equalization aid shall be calculated as ((SE Census / AB) x EQAID) / RE, where

     SE is the school district's special education categorical aid calculated pursuant to section 13 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-55) after any adjustment pursuant to section 5 of that act;

     SE Census is as calculated pursuant to subsection e. of section 9 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-51);

     AB is as calculated pursuant to subsection a. of section 9 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-51);

     EQAID is the school district's equalization aid calculated pursuant to section 11 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-53) after any adjustment pursuant to section 5 of that act; and

     RE is the school district's resident enrollment.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to the first full school year following the date of enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides that in the case of a special education student who resides in a resource family home, in addition to the special education categorical aid for which a school district or county vocational school district is eligible pursuant to the "School Funding Reform Act of 2008," P.L.2007, c.260, a district will receive additional State aid in the amount required to reimburse the district for any costs associated with providing programs and services to the special education student which exceed the district's average cost of providing programs and services to a student in the district's regular education program, after offset by special education categorical funding and the special education component of equalization aid.