HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2144        FILED ON: 2/18/2011

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3538

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Lori A. Ehrlich

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to education funding.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Lori A. Ehrlich

8th Essex

1/20/2011

Thomas M. McGee

Third Essex

6/22/2011

Ruth B. Balser

12th Middlesex

2/1/2011

Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr.

12th Hampden

2/1/2011

Paul Brodeur

32nd Middlesex

6/17/2011

William N. Brownsberger

 

6/17/2011

Randy Hunt

5th Barnstable

6/17/2011

Kay Khan

11th Middlesex

6/17/2011

David T. Vieira

3rd Barnstable

6/17/2011

James J. Dwyer

30th Middlesex

6/20/2011

Jason M. Lewis

31st Middlesex

6/20/2011

Geoff Diehl

7th Plymouth

6/20/2011

Cory Atkins

14th Middlesex

6/21/2011

Timothy R. Madden

Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket

6/21/2011

Brian M. Ashe

2nd Hampden

6/24/2011

James B. Eldridge

 

6/22/2011

James J. Lyons, Jr.

18th Essex

6/24/2011

Frank I. Smizik

15th Norfolk

6/24/2011

Katherine M. Clark

Fifth Middlesex

6/24/2011

Jonathan Hecht

29th Middlesex

6/24/2011

Brian A. Joyce

Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth

6/27/2011

Harold P. Naughton, Jr.

12th Worcester

6/24/2011

David M. Torrisi

14th Essex

6/24/2011


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2144        FILED ON: 2/18/2011

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3538

By Ms. Ehrlich of Marblehead, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3538) of Lori A. Ehrlich and others for legislation to increase funding by the Commonwealth under the education foundation budget for public school districts.  Education.

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Eleven

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An Act relative to education 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. Chapter 70 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2008 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting, after section 2, the following section:-

Section 2A. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2, any other section of this chapter, or any other general or special law to the contrary, the commonwealth shall appropriate and expend whatever funds necessary to establish a minimum funding contribution of not less than 17.5 per cent of the gross education foundation budget for each municipal, regional or other school district governed under this chapter.

SECTION 2. The commonwealth shall fund each municipal, regional or other school district at the required rate of not less than 17.5 per cent of the gross education foundation budget, as established pursuant to section1, on or before June 30, 2014. Any municipal, regional or other school district currently funded at less than 17.5 per cent of the gross education foundation budget shall be phased into compliance by funding half of any funding deficiency in fiscal year 2013 and by funding the remaining deficiency in fiscal year 2014.

SECTION 3. Section 1 shall take effect on July 1, 2014.