ASSEMBLY, No. 1105

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

By Assemblyman LANCE

An Act concerning State aid for school districts which send pupils to special needs districts and supplementing P.L.1990, c.52 (C.18A:7D-1 et al.).

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

    1. A board of Education of a school district which sends pupils and pays tuition to a special needs district shall receive State tuition aid to be determined as follows:

    A = (EC - DC) x T x N

    where

    A is the district's State tuition aid;

    EC is the equity spending cap on the net budget of the receiving special needs school district;

    DC is the district's cap, which shall be defined as the maximum percentage increase in the net budget of the sending district, pursuant to section 85 of P.L.1990, c.52 (C.18A:7D-28);

    T is the tuition rate of the receiving special needs district in the prebudget year; and

    N is the number of resident enrolled students in the sending district who were sent to the receiving special needs district on the last school day prior to October 16 of the prebudget year.

    State tuition aid received by a school district pursuant to this section shall not be subject to the net budget expenditure limitation pursuant to section 85 of P.L.1990, c.52 (C.18A:7D-28).

    2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be first applicable to State aid beginning with the 1993-94 school year.

STATEMENT

    This bill would provide additional State aid beginning in the 1993-94 school year to school districts which send pupils to a special needs school district. Under the bill, the sending district would receive State tuition aid calculated by multiplying the difference between the equity cap of the special needs district and the net budget cap of the sending district by the tuition paid by the sending district in the prebudget year. This aid would also be excluded from the calculation of the sending district's maximum permissible net budget.

Provides State aid to school districts that send pupils and pay tuition to a special needs school district.