HARRY HUGHES, Governor

5311

Article - Education

Section 5-202(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1978 Volume and 1981 Supplement)

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.

(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.

(ii) In fiscal year 1982 and for each
fiscal year thereafter, the State shall share in a per pupil
basic current expenditure program level calculated as
follows: for the third, fourth, and fifth years preceding
the fiscal year for which, the program level is to be
determined a statewide average per pupil current expenditure
is calculated based upon full-time equivalent enrollment on
September 30 of each of the fiscal years and based upon the
statewide aggregate of expenditures which shall:

1.  Exclude disbursements for food
subsidy programs and food service, employer contributions to
teachers' retirement and social security paid by the State,
student body activities, community services, pupil
transportation, adult education, school construction, and
debt service;

2.  Include disbursements for
instruction, kindergarten through grade 12, pupil personnel
services, health services, operation of plant, maintenance
of plant, administration, and fixed charges, including
teachers' retirement and teachers' social security
contributions paid by the subdivisions;

3.  Be reduced by the following
revenues to the subdivisions: State drivers' education aid,
State density aid, State compensatory aid, and State
handicapped education aid, all federal aid except that for