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Committee sets 80% proration floor for catastrophic special-education aid in HB 773 amendment
Summary
The committee blended provisions to preserve the 3.5x threshold for catastrophic aid and to set an 80% floor for payments in years of shortfall, with a statutory backstop drawing from the Education Trust Fund. The amendment passed and the bill was reported OTPA.
The House Education Committee approved an amendment to HB 773 that retains the 3.5-times-average-cost threshold for catastrophic special-education aid and establishes an 80% proration floor if appropriations fall short.
Representative Spilsbury explained that the amendment (0714H) combines language from two bills to preserve the existing threshold in current law while deleting an automatic proration sentence. The new language requires the state to fund at least 80% of the…
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