SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1776        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 269

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to amend regional school transportation funding..

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 Board of Education is directed to develop for fiscal year 2011 a method to include mandated regional school transportation as defined in Section 16C of Chapter 71 of the General Laws as a category of aid in the chapter 70 funding formula, to be included in state school aid.  The method adopted shall also include a provision to include prior years regional transportation aid as “base aid.”

SECTION 2.  The Board of Education shall develop such method and file appropriate legislation with the Clerk of the Senate by November 30, 2009.