School facilities: new construction grant eligibility: special education pupils.

The Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school districts prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for construction and modernization of school facilities, including hardship funding, and supplemental funding for site development and acquisition. The act requires the board to determine maximum total new construction grant eligibility of an applicant under a specified calculation that includes certain per-unhoused-pupil grant amounts, and authorizes the board to adjust the per-unhoused-pupil grant amounts by regulation for qualifying individuals with exceptional needs. This bill would require an increase made to the per-unhoused-pupil grant amounts also to be made to the per-unhoused-pupil who is a qualifying individual with exceptional needs grant amounts. If an increase to the per-unhoused-pupil grant amounts differentiates among the pupil groups based on whether the pupils are elementary, middle, or high school pupils, the bill would require the Office of Public School Construction to recommend to the board a methodology to adjust those amounts for pupils who are qualifying individuals with exceptional needs so that they reflect these increases.