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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 123

current expense funding level requiring a local education
agency to provide an appropriate education for a child
living in a county as a party of an out-of-county living
arrangement; defining certain terms; determining the home
county of a child of parents who live apart; providing a
formula for adjusting the count of children in out-of-county
living arrangements; requiring the State to pay certain
funds to local education agencies that provide educational
services for students in out-of-county living arrangements;
making out-of-state agencies that place children in certain
facilities in the State liable for certain educational

costs; requiring the State Board to adopt certain

regulations to implement this Act; increasing the amount of
funds set aside for vocational technical education programs;
altering the amount of funds that must be expended for
certain dedicated compensatory programs in a certain county;
and generally relating to State aid for public education.

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

current expense funding level; increasing the amount of

funds set aside for vocational-technical education programs;

altering the amount of funds that must be expended for

certain dedicated compensatory programs in a certain county;
altering the method of calculating basic current expenses

for certain purposes; and generally relating to State aid

for public education.

BY adding to

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Section 4-120.1

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1985 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

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Section 5-202(b)(2)(i) (e)(3) 5-202(b)(2)(i) and (5),

(e)(3), and (f)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1985 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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