1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to education finance; delaying by one year the implementation of the state 
1.3 	determined tuition rates for special education services provided by intermediate 
1.4 	school districts and other cooperative providers of special education services.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. INTERMEDIATE DISTRICT SPECIAL EDUCATION TUITION 
1.7 	BILLING FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006 AND FISCAL YEAR 2007.
 1.8 	(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 125A.11, subdivision 1, paragraph 
1.9 	(a), and Minnesota Statutes, section 127A.47, subdivision 7, paragraph (d), for fiscal year 
1.10 	2006 an intermediate district is not subject to the uniform special education tuition billing 
1.11 	calculations, but may instead continue to bill the resident school districts for the actual 
1.12 	unreimbursed costs of serving pupils with a disability as determined by the intermediate 
1.13 	district.
1.14 	(b) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 125A.11, subdivision 1, paragraph 
1.15 	(c), for fiscal year 2007 only, an intermediate district may apply to the commissioner of 
1.16 	education for a waiver from the uniform special education tuition calculations and aid 
1.17 	adjustments under Minnesota Statutes, section 125A.11, subdivision 1, paragraph (b), and 
1.18 	Minnesota Statutes, section 127A.47, subdivision 7, paragraph (e). The commissioner 
1.19 	must grant the waiver within 30 days of receiving the following information from the 
1.20 	intermediate district:
1.21 	(1) a detailed description of the intermediate district's methodology for calculating 
1.22 	special education tuition for fiscal years 2006 and 2007, as required by the intermediate 
1.23 	district to recover the full cost of serving pupils with a disability;
2.1 	(2) sufficient data to determine the total amount of special education tuition actually 
2.2 	charged for each student with a disability, as required by the intermediate district to 
2.3 	recover the full cost of serving pupils with a disability in fiscal year 2006; and
2.4 	(3) sufficient data to determine the amount that would have been charged for each 
2.5 	student for fiscal year 2006 using the uniform tuition billing methodology according 
2.6 	to Minnesota Statutes, section 125A.11, subdivision 1, or Minnesota Statutes, section 
2.7 	127A.47, subdivision 7, as applicable.

2.8 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment 
2.9 	for fiscal year 2006.