PLEASE NOTE: Legislative Information cannot perform research, provide legal advice, or interpret Maine law. For legal assistance, please contact a qualified attorney.
An Act To Adjust the Special Education Funding for Minimum Subsidy Receivers
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §15689, sub-§1, ¶B,  as amended by PL 2009, c. 1, Pt. C, §2, is further amended to read:
 
B. The school administrative unit's special education costs as calculated pursuant to section 15681-A, subsection 2 multiplied by the following transition percentages:
 
(1) In fiscal year 2005-06, 84%;
 
(2) In fiscal year 2006-07, 84%;
 
(3) In fiscal year 2007-08, 84%;
 
(4) In fiscal year 2008-09, 45%; and
 
(5) In fiscal year 2009-10 and succeeding years, 84% 25%.
 
SUMMARY
This bill adjusts the subsidy for special education for those school administrative units that are minimum receivers of state subsidy by reducing the transition percentage for special education costs to 25%.