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SPONSOR: |
Miera |
DATE TYPED: |
2//10/03 |
HB |
HJM 11 |
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SHORT TITLE: |
Fund Special Education Services in Schools |
SB |
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ANALYST: |
L. Baca |
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REVENUE
Estimated Revenue |
Subsequent Years Impact |
Recurring or
Non-Rec |
Fund Affected |
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FY03 |
FY04 |
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Significant |
Recurring |
Federal |
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Revenue Decreases)
Responses
Received From
State
Department of Education (SDE)
SUMMARY
Synopsis
of Bill
House Joint Memorial
requests that the President and Congress fully fund the federal government’s
share of special education services in public elementary and secondary schools
in the
This HJM was
introduced for the Legislative Education Study Committee.
Significant
Issues
One of the federal government’s major efforts to
promote the delivery of services to special education students occurred in 1975,
P.L. 94-142, the precursor to IDEA. The law imposed new requirements on states
and promised to fund 40 percent of the national average per special education
pupil cost as an incentive to the states to implement these new
requirements. To date, the federal
government funds less than 17 percent of the costs incurred to provide services
to students with disabilities. HJM 11
requests that the federal government keep its word and provide the funding promised.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
The SDE estimates it
would cost about $18.0 billion to fund the federal share at 40 percent for the
2002-2003 school year. Funded at the 40
percent level,
OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
Receiving additional
federal funding for special education students does not ensure that state funds
will be displaced and become available to provide services for other
students.