HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                        653

(iii) Stop funding a youth services bureau that
is ineffective or that, for 2 years, fails to meet the
eligibility guidelines for State funding; and

(2) Review and either approve or disapprove the
application for State funding of a youth services bureau or
proposed youth services bureau.

(d) (1) The funding of an eligible youth services bureau
shall be a shared responsibility of this State and of local
governments. This State's share shall be 75 percent of the
funding of an eligible youth services bureau, as provided in the
State budget.

(2)  Each eligible youth services bureau shall submit
to the Administration a proposed annual budget for review and
approval, at the times that the Administration specifies.

(3)  The proposed budget of the Administration shall
list the eligible youth services bureaus and estimate the amount
of State funds to be allocated to each.

(4)  At the option of the local governing body that
provides the matching funds for an eligible youth services
bureau, the State funds for the support of the eligible youth
services bureau shall be paid directly to its private sponsor or
to the local governing body. Before the State funds are paid,
the fiscal officer of the local government shall certify, in
writing, the source of the 25 percent local funds.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1986.

Approved April 29, 1986.

CHAPTER 123

(House Bill 482)

AN ACT concerning

Public Education - State Aid

FOR the purpose of establishing a process for funding the
education of certain children placed in out of county living
arrangements; defining certain terms; providing an appeals
process; authorizing the State Superintendent of Schools to
determine financial responsibility of counties for certain
payments; authorizing deductions from certain funds under
certain circumstances; authorizing the adoption of certain
regulations; altering the basis for computing the basic