Authority: PL 107-110, PL 108-446, PL 105–332, PL 105-220, PL 105-220, Federal Code.

a. The appropriation to support payments to school divisions from federal program grant funds is contained in this Item.

b. The Department of Education will encourage localities to apply for Medicaid reimbursements for eligible special education expenditures which will help to increase available state and local funding for other educational activities and expenditures.

c. The Department of Education shall allocate $365,187,984 from the Elementary and Secondary Education portion of the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, in the second year to the local school divisions based upon the proportion that each school division represents to the statewide total funding reduced from Item 140 of House Bill 1600/ Senate Bill 850, as introduced for the change in the support position funding methodology, the elimination of the school construction grants program, and elimination of the school construction component funded from the Lottery Proceeds Fund.

d. The Department of Education shall allocate an additional $218,985,753 from the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, in the second year to the local school divisions to pay a portion of the state's share of Basic Aid. The allocations shall be based on the proportion that each school division represents to the statewide total of the Basic Aid amount as funded in Item 140 of House Bill 29/ Senate Bill 29, as introduced. The amounts appropriated are an estimate, and may be modified by the Director, Department of Planning and Budget, depending on the final budget reductions taken in this act.