Bills › 90th General Assembly
Allowing area education agencies to charge user fees to nonpublic schools for materials and services provided
Topics:K–12 education
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 17, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 18, 2024
- 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 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, 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 Area education agencies can now charge accredited nonpublic schools a fee for certain materials and services. These fees cannot be higher than what it actually costs the agency to provide those items to the school or its students.1
Read the official explanation
Area education agencies (AEAs) were created in order to provide effective, efficient, and economical means of identifying and serving children who require special education by providing media services and other programs to K-12 pupils. Services and materials required of AEAs by statute or rule are funded by payments from school districts through the state school foundation aid the school district receives for its children requiring special education. AEAs are allowed to charge a fee for services and materials a public or nonpublic school requests the AEA to provide, but which AEAs are not required to provide by statute or rule. This bill allows AEAs to charge an accredited nonpublic school a user fee for materials and services provided to the accredited nonpublic school or its students in an amount not to exceed the actual cost of the materials and services provided for all services that the AEA provides.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 18, 2024. It hasn’t reported yet.
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