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Relating to the determination of preschool budget enrollment for the budget year beginning July 1, 2021, and including effective date provisions
Topics:State budgetK–12 education
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 21, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 27, 2021
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary For the 2021 budget year only, school districts will use a different way to count their preschool students when calculating state funding. Instead of using only the number of students enrolled in October, districts can choose whichever number is higher: their actual October enrollment or their enrollment from the previous year. This change helps ensure districts receive a certain level of preschool funding.1
Read the official explanation
For purposes of calculating each school district’s preschool foundation aid under Code chapter 256C, “preschool budget enrollment” is defined to mean the figure that is equal to percent of the actual enrollment of eligible students in the preschool programming provided by a school district approved to participate in the preschool program on October of the base year, or the first Monday in October if October falls on a Saturday or Sunday. This bill provides that for the budget year beginning July 1, 2021, only, “preschool budget enrollment” for each school district means the greater of the amount equal to the preschool budget enrollment for the budget year beginning July 1, 2020, or the figure that is equal to percent of the actual enrollment of eligible students in the preschool programming provided by a school district approved to participate in the preschool program on October of the base year. The bill takes effect upon enactment.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 27, 2021. It hasn’t reported yet.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part