HB 258 -- SCHOOL DISTRICT CENSUS REQUIREMENTS

SPONSOR:  Cunningham (86)

COMMITTEE ACTION:  Voted "do pass by consent" by the Committee on
Elementary and Secondary Education by a vote of 13 to 0.

This bill removes the requirement that school districts take an
annual census of children up to age 21 with disabilities, removes
obsolete provisions concerning funding for the census, and
removes references to the repealed sections.

FISCAL NOTE:  No impact on state funds in FY 2006, FY 2007, and
FY 2008.

PROPONENTS:  Supporters say that special education students are
now accounted for by other means, and the bill should eliminate
duplicative administrative and clerical work for school
districts.  The $1 per child funding will continue to go to the
district by way of exceptional pupil aid.

Testifying for the bill were Representative Cunningham (86);
Missouri School Boards Association; Missouri School
Administrators Coalition; and Cooperating School Districts of
Greater St. Louis.

OPPONENTS:  There was no opposition voiced to the committee.

Becky DeNeve, Senior Legislative Analyst

Missouri House of Representatives
93rd General Assembly, 1st Regular Session
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