Subject to the limitation in § 13-37-42, the secretary of the Department of Education shall, for school fiscal year 2014 and each year thereafter, set aside four million dollars of the state aid to districts for special education appropriation for extraordinary expenses incurred in providing special education programs or services to one or more children with disabilities, with expenditures to be made as recommended by an oversight board and approved by the secretary of the Department of Education. Any funds not expended or obligated pursuant to this section shall not be subject to reversion pursuant to § 4-8-19. The total amount set aside for extraordinary expenses each fiscal year plus the total amount not reverted from previous fiscal years may not exceed five million five hundred thousand dollars.

The amount appropriated for extraordinary expenses shall be recalculated at the same time as the amount of the allocations for disability levels as provided in § 13-37-35.2.

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 13-37-40

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Children: includes children by birth and by adoption. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • special education: means educational services and auxiliary services provided children in need of special education or special education and related services pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and shall include school instruction conforming as nearly as possible to the school program as defined in accreditation rules under duly qualified special education teachers to the extent that the child in need of special education or special education and related services is capable of profiting. See South Dakota Codified Laws 13-37-2

Source: SL 1995, ch 101, § 6; SL 1998, ch 98, § 12; SL 2003, ch 272 (Ex. Ord. 03-1), § 63; SL 2013, ch 79, § 13.

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