HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
read(s) as follows:

Article - Education

5-202.

(a) (3) "Basic current expenses" means the
expenditures made by a county from State and county revenue
for public elementary and secondary education exclusive of:

(i) Payments for debt service, capital
outlay, and transportation of students;

(ii) State aid for handicapped children
paid under §§ 8-417.2 and [8-417.7] 8-416 of this article;

(iii) State aid for driver education paid
under the Maryland Driver Education Program Act; and

(iv) State aid for food services.

(7) ["Students" or "students enrolled"]
"FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT ENROLLMENT" means:

(i) All students enrolled in grades 1
through 12 or their equivalent in regular day school
programs on September 30 of the previous school year and in
Baltimore County includes the students in the Lida Lee Tall
School of Towson State University;

(ii) One half of the number of students
enrolled in kindergarten programs on September 30 of the
previous school year, except that in Garrett County the full
number of kindergarten students is included; and

(iii) The number of full time equivalent
students, as determined by a regulation of the Department,
enrolled in evening high school programs during the previous
school year.

(b) (1) Each county board and the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore City shall receive from the State, in
the manner and subject to the limitations under this
section, an amount for each school year to be known as the
"State share of basic current expenses," which shall be
calculated as indicated in this subsection.

(2) (i) In fiscal year 1981 the State shall
share in an expenditure for basic current expenses of $942
multiplied by the [number of students enrolled] FULL TIME
EQUIVALENT ENROLLMENT.