2018 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 10 - Education and Culture
Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation
Section 10-262h - Equalization aid grants.

(a) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant as follows: (1) Any town designated as an alliance district, as defined in section 10-262u, shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its base grant amount; and (2) any town not designated as an alliance district shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to ninety-five per cent of its base grant amount.

(b) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant as follows: (1) Any town whose fully funded grant is greater than its base grant amount shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its base grant amount plus four and one-tenth per cent of its grant adjustment; and (2) any town whose fully funded grant is less than its base grant amount shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its base grant amount minus twenty-five per cent of its grant adjustment, except any such town designated as an alliance district shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its base grant amount.

(c) For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2020, to June 30, 2027, inclusive, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant as follows: (1) Any town whose fully funded grant is greater than its base grant amount shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year plus ten and sixty-six-one-hundredths per cent of its grant adjustment; and (2) any town whose fully funded grant is less than its base grant amount shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its equalization aid grant amount for the previous fiscal year minus eight and thirty-three-one-hundredths per cent of its grant adjustment, except any such town designated as an alliance district shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its base grant amount.

(d) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2028, and each fiscal year thereafter, each town maintaining public schools according to law shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its fully funded grant, except any town designated as an alliance district whose fully funded grant amount is less than its base grant amount shall be entitled to an equalization aid grant in an amount equal to its base grant amount.

(P.A. 88-358, S. 2, 9; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-7, S. 11, 22; P.A. 92-262, S. 26, 42; P.A. 93-1, S. 1, 3; P.A. 95-226, S. 2, 30; P.A. 96-178, S. 2, 18; P.A. 97-318, S. 2, 12; P.A. 98-168, S. 15, 26; P.A. 99-217, S. 5, 8; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-1, S. 4, 54; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7, S. 2; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 23; P.A. 04-254, S. 2; P.A. 05-2, S. 1; 05-245, S. 32; P.A. 06-135, S. 19; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3, S. 62; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5, S. 53; P.A. 08-170, S. 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 72; P.A. 10-151, S. 2; P.A. 11-6, S. 37; P.A. 12-116, S. 59, 60; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2, S. 25, 26; P.A. 13-247, S. 153; P.A. 14-47, S. 18; P.A. 15-244, S. 33; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 230.)

History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-7 amended Subsec. (a)(3) to change the formula, amended Subsec. (a)(4) to require that no town receive a grant smaller than the grant it received in the previous fiscal year and limited the applicability of Subsec. (b) to the fiscal years ending in June 1990 and 1991; P.A. 92-262 amended Subsec. (a)(4) to change the formula for fiscal year 1992-1993 and added Subdiv. (5) re fiscal year 1993-1994 and thereafter; P.A. 93-1 amended Subsec. (a)(4) to clarify that the exception for distressed municipalities applies to towns which received payments during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1992, effective January 28, 1993; P.A. 95-226 amended Subsec. (a) to limit Subdiv. (5) to the years ending June 30, 1994, and June 30, 1995, and added Subdivs. (6) and (7) concerning grants for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1996, and June 30, 1997, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 96-178 amended Subsec. (a)(6) to add a further reduction of .02% or 0.56% for towns depending upon their rank when all towns are ranked in descending order according to town wealth, effective July 1, 1996; P.A. 97-318 amended Subsec. (a)(6) to add provisions concerning the fiscal years ending June 30, 1998, and June 30, 1999, and made technical changes, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 98-168 amended Subsec. (a)(6) to increase the amount of the maximum percentage increase from 2% to 5% and substituted the product of 5% for 2% in the formula for determining such percentage, decreased the amount of the maximum percentage reduction for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1997 to June 30, 1999, inclusive, from 9% to 5% and substituted the product of 5% for 9% in the formula for determining such percentage, effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 99-217 amended Subsec. (a)(6) to extend the applicability of the formula to each fiscal year commencing after June 30, 1996, to add cap for the percentage increase for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2000, to June 30, 2003, and to specify that no such adjustment be made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2004, or any fiscal year thereafter, to provide that for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, and each fiscal year thereafter, no town’s grant shall be less than the grant it received for the prior fiscal year, to provide that the density supplement for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000, and each fiscal year thereafter, shall not be less than the density supplement for the prior fiscal year, to extend the provisions limiting reductions in grants to priority school districts, to add provision requiring grants to priority school districts to at least maintain the amount of aid per student that was received under the grant for the prior fiscal year and to add provision limiting reductions in grants to transitional school districts, effective July 1, 1999; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-1 amended Subsec. (a)(6) to designate portions of existing provisions as Subparas. (A) to (L), to use the term target aid in place of language in former Subparas. (A) to (C) that was identical to the definition of target aid, to substitute “capped” for “adjusted”, to add Subpara. (M) re fiscal year ending June 30, 2002, and Subpara. (N) re fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, and to make technical changes, effective July 1, 2001; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7 amended Subsec. (a)(6) by adding new Subpara. (O) re hold harmless provision for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, effective August 15, 2002; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 amended Subsec. (a)(6) to extend cap in Subparas. (B) and (C), to end density supplement in Subpara. (G), to end hold harmless provision for priority school districts in Subpara. (J) and to add Subparas. (P) and (Q) re grant calculations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2004, and June 30, 2005, effective August 20, 2003; P.A. 04-254 amended Subsec. (a)(6) by removing the cap in Subparas. (B) and (C), by restoring the density supplement in Subpara. (G) and by amending Subpara. (Q) re grants for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005, by providing that no town shall receive a grant less than 60% of any grant previously received, each town shall receive a grant at least equal to the previous year plus a percentage increase, grants associated with priority school districts shall be at least $370 per student and no town shall receive less than it did for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2004, increased by 0.07%, except that Winchester shall receive at least its fixed entitlement for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 05-2 amended Subsec. (a)(6)(Q)(iv) to change percentage increase in grant from 0.07% to 0.7%, effective March 22, 2005; P.A. 05-245 amended Subsec. (a)(6) by adding Subpara. (R) re grant amount for fiscal years ending June 30, 2006, and June 30, 2007, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-135 amended Subsec. (a)(6) by providing in Subpara. (R), for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, that no town shall receive less than 60% of its target aid and by adding Subpara. (S) requiring that, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, and each fiscal year thereafter, each town shall be held harmless and shall receive at least 60% of its target aid, effective July 1, 2006; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-3 amended Subsec. (a)(6) to provide that provision in Subpara. (G) applies to fiscal years prior to fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, revise Subpara. (S) to terminate provision with fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, and replace former hold-harmless provision with language providing grant in amount that is the sum of town’s base aid and 17.31% of difference between town’s fully funded grant and its base aid, except that no town shall receive less than it did for fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, increased by 4.4%, and add Subpara. (T) to provide grant for fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, in amount that is the sum of town’s base aid and 23.3% of the difference between town’s fully funded grant and its base aid, except that no town shall receive less than it did for fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, increased by 4.4%, effective July 1, 2007; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5 amended Subsec. (a)(6)(S)(ii) to add language re adjustment of per cent for all towns, effective October 6, 2007; P.A. 08-170 amended Subsec. (a)(6)(T)(ii) to change 23.3% to 22.02% and to provide that percentage shall be adjusted for all towns so that no town receives a grant in an amount less than in fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, effective July 1, 2008; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 added Subsec. (c) specifying equalization grants for fiscal years 2010 and 2011, effective September 9, 2009; P.A. 10-151 amended Subsec. (c)(3) by replacing “pursuant to this subsection” with “for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009”, effective June 8, 2010; P.A. 11-6 added Subsec. (d) specifying equalization grants for fiscal years ending June 20, 2012, and June 30, 2013, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 12-116 amended Subsec. (a)(6) by adding “the sum of any amounts paid to the town pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (d) and subsection (l) of section 10-66ee” and adding “of target aid” re capped amount and amended Subsec. (d) by making existing provision applicable to fiscal year 2012 and adding provision re equalization aid grant amount for fiscal year 2013 in Subdiv. (1) and changing fiscal year 2013 grant amounts for certain towns in Subdiv. (2), effective July 1, 2012; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2 amended Subsecs. (a)(6) and (d)(1) by deleting references to “subsection (l)” of Sec. 10-66ee, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 13-247 replaced former provisions with new Subsec. (a) re equalization aid grant for fiscal year 2014 and new Subsec. (b) re equalization aid grant for fiscal year 2015, effective July 1, 2013; P.A. 14-47 replaced former Subsecs. (a) and (b) re calculations for determining grants with new Subsecs. (a) and (b) re grant amounts for fiscal years ending June 30, 2014, and June 30, 2015, effective May 29, 2014; P.A. 15-244 added Subsec. (c) re grant amounts for fiscal years ending June 30, 2016, and June 30, 2017, effective July 1, 2015; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 deleted former Subsecs. (a) to (c), added new Subsec. (a) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal year 2018, added new Subsec. (b) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal year 2019, added new Subsec. (c) re equalization aid grant calculation for fiscal years 2020 to 2027, and added new Subsec. (d) re equalization aid grant calculations for fiscal year 2028 and each fiscal year thereafter, effective October 31, 2017.