WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                     Ch. 11

The outdated cross-reference was noted by the Michie
Company.

Article - Education

5-202.

(b) (3) To be eligible to receive the State share of basic
current expenses:

(i) The county governing body shall levy an
annual tax sufficient to provide an amount of revenue for
elementary and secondary public education purposes equal to the
product of the wealth of the county and a local contribution rate
determined for each fiscal year;

(ii) 1. The county governing body shall
appropriate local funds to the school operating budget in an
amount no less than the greater of the product of the full-time
equivalent enrollment used in calculating the current expense aid
for the current fiscal year and the local appropriation on a per
pupil basis for the prior fiscal year or the highest local
appropriation to the school operating budget in the prior fiscal
year.

2. For purposes of this paragraph, the
local appropriation on a per pupil basis for the prior fiscal
year for a county is derived by dividing the county's highest
local appropriation to its school operating budget for the prior
fiscal year by the full-time equivalent enrollment used to
calculate the current expense aid for the county for the prior
fiscal year. For example, the calculation of the current expense
aid for fiscal year 1985 shall be based on the highest local
appropriation for the school operating budget for a county for
fiscal year 1984. Program shifts between a county operating
budget and a county school operating budget may not be used to
artificially satisfy the requirements of this paragraph; and

(iii) 1. For the 1987-1988 and 1988-1989
school years, the county governing body shall appropriate funds
to the school operating budget within the instructional salaries,
instructional materials and related costs, special education and
fixed charges budget categories, as specified in § 5-101 of this
title, that in the aggregate each year are no less than the
aggregate appropriation to the school operating budget within
these 4 budget categories in the prior fiscal year. For purposes
of meeting the requirements of this subparagraph, appropriations,
in the aggregate, to the school operating budget within these 4
budget categories for the prior fiscal year may be reduced by the
amount by which federal funds in these 4 budget categories in the
current fiscal year are less than the federal funds appropriated
in these 4 budget categories in the prior fiscal year. Any funds
due the county for the current fiscal year as provided under [§

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