This bill provides that, beginning in fiscal year 2022-23, the minimum state share of a school administrative unit's special education costs under the essential programs and services school funding formula must be 55%. The bill also requires the Department of Education to examine the methodologies used to determine when a school administrative unit is a so-called minimum receiver under the essential programs and services school funding formula. The department is directed to examine the trends in the number of school administrative units identified as minimum receivers and determine the factors that have caused any increases in the number of such units, the issues that this creates for these units and methods by which those issues may be reduced or resolved. The department is directed to report its findings and recommendations to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs no later than January 2,
2024. The committee may report out a bill to the Second Regular Session of the 131st Legislature relating to minimum receivers.

Statutes affected:
Bill Text LD 154, HP 95: 20-A.15689