Sec. 10-262m. Grants for high level of foster care placements in a school district.

For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, and each fiscal year thereafter, each school district in which two per cent or more of the average daily membership, as defined in section 10-261, of the school district are children age five to eighteen, inclusive, in foster care placements or certified relative foster care placements in such school district on October first of the fiscal year, as determined by the Department of Children and Families shall receive a grant, within available appropriations, from the Department of Education in an amount equal to one hundred thousand dollars. Such grant shall be in addition to funds received by such school district pursuant to subsection (b) of section 10-76g.

(P.A. 98-168, S. 10, 26; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-1, S. 10, 51.)

History: P.A. 98-168 effective July 1, 1998; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-1 required foster care placement grants to be within available appropriations, effective July 1, 1999.