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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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Ch. 503
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(b) (1) In this subsection, "full-time equivalent enrollment" means the
full-time equivalent enrollment used to calculate the State share of basic current
expenses for a fiscal year under § 5-202 of this subtitle.
(2) Subject to the limitations under paragraph (3) of this subsection, for
fiscal year [1998] 2001 and every year thereafter the amount of the grant shall be
equal to the amount of the grant for the previous year increased by the same
percentage as the increase in the private transportation category of the Consumer
Price Index for all urban consumers, for the [Baltimore] WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE
metropolitan area, as of July of the [second] fiscal year preceding the year for which
the amount is being calculated, plus an additional amount equal to the product of:
(i) The total State grant for school transportation for the previous
fiscal year divided by the full-time equivalent enrollment for the previous fiscal year;
and
(ii) [1.] For fiscal year 1999 and each fiscal year thereafter, the
difference between the full-time equivalent enrollment in a county for the current
fiscal year and the full-time equivalent enrollment in the county for the previous
fiscal year, or, if the full-time equivalent enrollment in a county for the current fiscal
year is less than the full-time equivalent enrollment in the county for the previous
fiscal year, zero[; and
2. For fiscal year 1998 only, one-half the difference between
the full-time equivalent enrollment in a county for the current fiscal year and the
full-time equivalent enrollment in the county for the previous fiscal year, or, if the
full-time equivalent enrollment in a county for the current fiscal year is less than the
full-time equivalent enrollment in the county for the previous fiscal year, zero].
(3) The increase in the amount of the grant that is based on the increase
in the private transportation category of the Consumer Price Index may not be less
than 3 percent nor more than 8 percent of the amount of the grant for the previous
year.
(c) For each fiscal year, in addition to the grant provided under subsections (a)
and (b) of this section, a handicapped student transportation grant shall be
distributed to each county board. The amount of the grant to each board shall be $500
times the number of handicapped students requiring special transportation services
who are transported by the county board in excess of the number transported during
the 1980-1981 school year.
(d) For the purposes of determining the amount of the grant provided under
subsection (c) of this section, the State Board shall develop a procedure and adopt
regulations for determining the number of handicapped students transported in each
jurisdiction in excess of the number transported in the 1980-1981 school year.
(e) The State Board shall adopt rules and regulations that provide for the safe
operation of the student transportation system of each county board of education.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 2000.
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