PRINTER'S NO. 2253
No. 1735 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY R. MILLER, STETLER, DALLY, GILLESPIE, LEWIS,
MACKERETH, NICKOL, SAYLOR, SCAVELLO, B. SMITH AND TIGUE,
JUNE 26, 2003
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, JUNE 26, 2003
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
2 act relating to the public school system, including certain
3 provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
4 schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
5 laws relating thereto," providing for basic education funding
6 for the 2002-2003 school year and for mandatory property tax
7 relief for the 2003-2004 school year.
8 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
9 hereby enacts as follows:
10 Section 1. The act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known
11 as the Public School Code of 1949, is amended by adding sections
12 to read:
13 Section 2502.41. Basic Education Funding for 2002-2003
14 School Year.--(a) For the 2002-2003 school year and each school
15 year thereafter, the Commonwealth shall pay to each school
16 district a basic education subsidy which shall be the greater
17 of:
18 (1) the amount the school district received in the prior
19 year; or
20 (2) an amount calculated by multiplying the school district's
1 total students by the school district's market value/personal
2 income aid ratio and the State average actual instructional
3 expenditure per student.
4 (b) For purposes of this section, a school district's total
5 students shall be:
6 (1) the school district's average daily membership, with all
7 students counted as one, except students enrolled in half-day
8 kindergarten, who shall be counted as one-half student;
9 (2) plus the school district's average daily membership, so
10 calculated, multiplied by the percent of children in the school
11 district receiving temporary assistance to needy families;
12 (3) plus one-half student for each of the first five hundred
13 (500) students of school district enrollment.
14 Section 2502.42. Mandatory Property Tax Relief for the 2003-
15 2004 School Year.--For the 2003-2004 school year, each school
16 district shall reduce property taxes on homesteads and
17 farmsteads within the school district by an amount calculated as
18 follows:
19 (1) Sum the amount of property taxes on residential
20 property, agricultural property and all non-property school
21 taxes collected by the school district in 2000-2001.
22 (2) Multiply the amount from clause (1) by the ratio of the
23 school district's actual instructional expenditures in 2000-2001
24 to total expenditures in 2000-2001.
25 (3) Divide the amount from clause (2) by the total amount of
26 personal income in the school district in 1999.
27 (4) Multiply the amount from clause (3) by 17.8.
28 (5) Add the amount from clause (4) to 0.01.
29 (6) Multiply the smaller of 0.90 or the amount from clause
30 (5) by that portion of the amount of the payment made pursuant
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1 to this section that exceeds the amount paid pursuant to section
2 2502.40.
3 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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