SB 422 - This act provides that the school district in which a residential treatment facility is located shall, for any student receiving all of their educational services while being treated in such facility, remit to the facility a sum equal to 95 percent of the per-pupil local and state funding received by the district. For students who receive a portion, but not all, of their educational services while being treated at such facility, the school district shall remit an amount that is proportionate to the amount of time the student received educational services at the facility.
For students who, prior to being admitted to a residential treatment facility, were enrolled in a school district other than the district in which the treatment facility was located, the district in which the student was enrolled at the time they were admitted to the facility shall remit to the facility an amount equal to 95 percent of the proportionate share of the per-pupil local and state funding received by the district.
The act provides that educational costs not covered by the payment mechanism within this act may be reimbursed as provided in the provisions of existing law. Additionally, a residential treatment facility and a school district may mutually agree to a financial arrangement that deviates from the provisions of the act.
This act is similar to HCS/HB 715 (2023) and to provisions in HCS/SS/SB 198 (2023), in HCS/SS/SCS/SBs 411 & 230 (2023), and in SS/HB 447 (2023).
OLIVIA SHANNON