PRINTER'S NO. 1059
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 976
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY GAYDOS, ORTITAY AND RIVERA, MARCH 19, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, MARCH 19, 2025
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
2 act relating to the public school system, including certain
3 provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
4 schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
5 laws relating thereto," in pupils and attendance, further
6 providing for exceptional children and education and
7 training.
8 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
9 hereby enacts as follows:
10 Section 1. Section 1372(8)(i), (ii) and (iv) of the act of
11 March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code
12 of 1949, are amended to read:
13 Section 1372. Exceptional Children; Education and
14 Training.--* * *
15 (8) Reporting of Expenditures Relating to Exceptional
16 Students.
17 (i) By December 31, [2000] 2025, and each year thereafter,
18 each school district shall compile information listing the
19 number of [students with disabilities] children with
20 exceptionalities for which expenditures are between twenty-five
21 thousand dollars ($25,000) and fifty thousand dollars ($50,000),
 1 which shall be known as Category 2; between fifty thousand
2 dollars ($50,000) and seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000),
3 which shall be known as Category 3A; and over seventy-five
4 thousand dollars ($75,000), which shall be known as Category 3B,
5 for the prior school year. The information shall be submitted to
6 the department in a form prescribed by the department. By
7 February 1, 2001, and each year thereafter, the department shall
8 submit to the chairman and minority chairman of the Education
9 and Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the chairman and
10 minority chairman of the Education and Appropriations Committees
11 of the House of Representatives a report listing this
12 information by school district. Beginning with the report due
13 February 1, 2023, the department shall include the information
14 reported in subparagraph (iv) along with the report made in this
15 subparagraph and shall post the report on the department's
16 publicly accessible Internet website in a sortable electronic
17 format.
18 (ii) By December 31, [2016] 2025, and each year thereafter,
19 each school district shall compile information listing the
20 number of [students with disabilities] children with
21 exceptionalities for which expenditures are under twenty-five
22 thousand dollars ($25,000), which shall be known as Category 1.
23 The information shall be submitted to the department in a form
24 prescribed by the department.
25 * * *
26 (iv) By December 31, [2022] 2025, and each year thereafter,
27 each school district shall, in addition to the information under
28 subparagraph (i), compile information listing the number of
29 [students with disabilities] children with exceptionalities for
30 which expenditures are under five thousand dollars ($5,000),
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 1 which shall be known as Category 1A; and between five thousand
2 dollars ($5,000) and less than the amount in Category 2, which
3 shall be known as Category 1B, for the prior school year. The
4 information shall be submitted to the department along with the
5 information in, and as prescribed by, subparagraph (i).
6 * * *
7 Section 2. Any regulations of the Department of Education
8 that are inconsistent with this act are abrogated to the extent
9 of the inconsistency.
10 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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