establishing a committee to study the cost and liability of providing educational services to students placed in residential facilities.

Section I was changed from limiting the study to students placed 'in the state as an episode of treatment or under a court ordered placement under RSA 169-B, RSA 169-C, and RSA 169-D' to covering all students placed in residential facilities, with those specific categories now listed as examples using 'including but not limited to.' This expands the committee's mandate to investigate costs and liability for any residential placement of NH students, regardless of the legal mechanism or reason for placement.

The committee's purpose changed from studying private businesses providing special/behavioral education services and district reimbursement to studying the cost and liability of providing general and special education services to students placed in residential facilities under RSA 169-B, 169-C, and 169-D.

Removed six specific study questions about reimbursement mechanisms for businesses using district resources, student residency when businesses provide room and board, funding when parents live in another district, non-profit PILOT payment issues, and state-placed children.

The amended version broadens the student population from only those with behavioral or special educational issues to all students placed in residential facilities, including both identified and unidentified students.

Added a single focused study question asking who is financially responsible for educating students placed by someone other than their resident district into residential facilities, and how costs are paid by local school districts, the state (through DCYF or DOE), federal sources, and other sources.