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Senate Bill No. 618
(By Senators Plymale and Prezioso)
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[Introduced March17, 2009; referred to the Committee on
Education; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §18-9A-8a of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to the foundation allowance for
regional education service agencies; removing the budget cap;
and basing allowance on the allowances for professional
educators and professional student support personnel to be
consistent with prior legislation moving professional student
support personnel out of the foundation allowance for
professional educators.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §18-9A-8a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 9A. PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPPORT.
§18-9A-8a. Foundation allowance for regional education service
agencies.
For the fiscal year beginning on July 1, two thousand six
2009,
and for each fiscal year thereafter, the foundation allowance
for regional education service agencies shall be equal to
sixty-three one-hundredths percent of the allocation for
professional educators
and professional student support personnel
as determined in section sections four
and eight
of this article.
but not more than four million two hundred thousand dollars The
allowance shall be distributed to the regional education service
agencies in accordance with rules adopted by the state board. The
allowance for regional education service agencies shall be excluded
from the computation of total basic state aid as provided in
section twelve of this article.
NOTE:
The purpose of this bill is to
remove the budget cap on
the foundation allowance for regional education service agencies.
The bill bases the allowance on the allowances for professional
educators and professional student support personnel to be
consistent with moving professional student support personnel out
of the foundation allowance for professional educators.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.