53A-1-908 - Cost evaluation of federal education agreements.
53A-1-908. Cost evaluation of federal education agreements.
(1) Before legally binding the state to a federal education agreement that may cost the state atotal of $500,000 or more to implement, a school official shall estimate the state and local cost ofimplementing the federal education agreement and submit that cost estimate to the governor and theExecutive Appropriations Committee of the Legislature.
(2) The Executive Appropriations Committee may:
(a) direct its staff to make an independent cost estimate of the cost of implementing the federaleducation agreement; and
(b) affirmatively adopt a cost estimate as the benchmark for determining which authorizationsestablished by this part are necessary.
Amended by Chapter 112, 2009 General Session