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Committee considers law to increase high-cost disabilities reimbursement; dash-1 would add $200 million
Summary
House Bill 2,448 would raise annual transfers to the High Cost Disabilities Account and appropriate additional general-fund dollars; witnesses described a roughly 40% reimbursement rate and district examples of large gaps between eligible costs and payments.
House Bill 2,448, a bill to increase state transfers to the High Cost Disabilities Account, drew testimony Feb. 17 before the Oregon House Education Committee. The staff summary said the bill would raise annual transfers from the state school fund to the account and includes a dash-1 amendment that increases the recommended amounts and a related general-fund appropriation.
Supporters told the committee the current account does not cover actual district costs for students with exceptionally high needs. Adrienne Anderson, government-relations counsel for the Oregon School Boards Association, said the account’s appropriation for the 2023–25 biennium…
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