HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1921        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 393

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to fund school transportation..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. The provisions of M.G.L. c. c. 70, §2 are amended to read as follows:

1. Amend subparagraph (e) “Foundation assistants”, text to read as follows:

“one hundred and twenty-five thousandths multiplied by the actual in-school special education enrollment as stated in the previous years October 1, report to the Department of Education or as otherwise reported to said Department.” 

2. Amend subparagraph (c) “Foundation central office professional staff”, to read  as follows:

“two hundredths multiplied by the sum of the actual in-school special education enrollment and the actual residential and day tuitions paid for all students counted in the special education enrollment.

3. Amend “Foundation non-salary expenses”, text to read as follows:

“the sum of foundation athletic expenses, foundation extracurricular activity expenses, foundation utility and ordinary maintenance expenses, foundation benefits, foundation special education tuition, defined as the actual amount spent by each city, town or district for day or residential tuition payments for special education students and all contracted services relating to provision of any special education service required by M.G.L. c. 71B, and foundation miscellaneous expenses.”

4. Amend subparagraph (e) “Foundation support staff”, text to read as follows:

“seventy-six thousandths multiplied by the actual in-school special education enrollment as stated in the previous years October 1, report to the Department of    Education or as otherwise reported to said Department.”

5. Amend subparagraph (g) “Foundation teaching staff”, text to read as follows:

“the actual in-school special education enrollment as stated in the previous years October 1, report to the Department of Education or as otherwise reported to said Department.”