The House also rejected an amendment that would have allowed municipal school committees to spend 50 percent or more of any Medicaid reimbursements without appropriation. Tuition for state wards The House rejected amendments that would have allowed municipal school committees to spend all Cherry Sheet tuition for state wards reimbursements without appropriation. Currently, school committees may spend these payments without appropriation at the local option of the municipality. The House adopted an amendment that would require a school district that transports or pays for the transportation of public school students in grades seven through 12 to provide transportation or payment for transportation for non-public school students in the same grades. This amendment changes the somewhat murky rules governing when a school district must provide for the transportation needs of private school and other non-public school students.
Different rules apply to regional school districts.
The House amendment appears to extend the non-public school transportation requirement to grades seven through 12 and to require payments for transportation, in addition to actual transportation services, if the municipality makes payments, such as for public transportation passes for example, for public school students. The House did not support a Koczera proposal that would have restored 0 percent interest SRF loans for a five-year period. After four days of intense lobbying by the police unions, the House did not adopt an outside section of the budget that would have brought dramatic reform to the Police Career Incentive Pay program, the so-called Quinn Bill. Section 13 also would have created much stricter academic requirements in order to obtain a degree. For instance, credit could not be granted for life experience, and courses would have to be taught by instructors with appropriate academic credentials.