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2001 Regular Session

Senate Bill 458

AN ACT CONCERNING STATE SPECIAL EDUCATION PAYMENTS.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Education Committee on January 29, 2001. The 2001 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To remove state payments for federally mandated special education services from the spending cap. To establish a Special Education Municipal Aid Fund through which all payments to towns for special education will be made. To require the state to pay the full cost of special education for children placed by the state. To lower the threshold for special education excess cost grants from five times to two and one-half times the average educational cost of the school district. To remove special education from the education cost sharing grant and to provide for a separate special education grant.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

1 co-sponsor

George C. Jepsen

In the House of Representatives

    3 co-sponsors

    Nancy Beals, Mary G. Fritz, Roberta B. Willis

    Its course

    January 12 to January 29, 2001, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

    Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

    Every action4 actions on 4 days

    In the SenateJan 12 to Jan 29 · stopped17 days

    Education CommitteeJan 12 to Jan 29 · stopped17 days

    Text

    Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

    l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

    What happened

    In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

    In the Senate Jan 12 – Jan 29

    1. Introduced and sent to Education Committee
    2. Drafted as a bill by Education Committee
    3. Sent to Education Committee
    4. Heard in Education Committee
    All 4 actions, as published