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SENATE BILL 140-FN-LOCAL

COMMITTEE: Education

ANALYSIS

This bill modifies the formula for calculating the portion of the adequate education grant based on free and reduced-price lunches.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Two

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

260:1 School Money; State Aid for Educational Adequacy; Free and Reduced Price Lunches Amended. RSA 198:38, VII(d) is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:

(d)(1) Additional weights based on pupils eligible to receive a free or reduced-price meal shall be calculated by multiplying each municipality's elementary average daily membership in residence by the percentage of elementary pupils eligible to receive a free or reduced-price meal in the district of residence, and multiplied by:

(A) If the district percent is less than or equal to the percentage of elementary pupils eligible to receive a free or reduced-price meal statewide multiplied by 0.85, zero.

(B) If the district percentage is greater than the percentage of elementary pupils eligible to receive a free or reduced-price meal statewide multiplied by 0.85, the lesser of 1.0 or a number equal to 5 times the difference between the district percentage and the state average percentage multiplied by 0.85.

(2) If the elementary average daily membership of the district of residence is less than 10, the percentage of elementary pupils eligible to receive a free or reduced-price meal shall be equal to the percentage eligible in that district in which the majority of the elementary pupils attend.

260:2 Applicability. The provisions of this act shall apply to adequate education grant calculations made for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2003 and every fiscal year thereafter.

260:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

(Approved: May 18, 2002)

(Effective Date: July 17, 2002)