(14) Data collection, reporting and utilization;

(15) Surrogate parents;

(16) Standardized procedures and rates of payment for early intervention and free appropriate public education services; and

(17) Frequency and intensity of developmental therapy and special instruction services;

Sec. 6. Deappropriation from General Purpose Aid for Local Schools account to provide state funds for 5-year-old children who continue to receive free, appropriate public education services through Child Development Services System. Notwithstanding any provision of the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, chapter 606 or 606-A, the Commissioner of Education shall determine the adjustment necessary to the statewide adjustment factor under section 15654, subsection 1, paragraph B in order to adjust for the amount of state funds that are deappropriated from the General Purpose Aid for Local Schools account in fiscal year 2004-05 to reflect the savings attributable to the delayed entry of the eligible 5-year-olds into kindergarten for the 2004-2005 school year.

Sec. 7. Department of Education emergency rules; state and federal funding to provide free, appropriate public education services for eligible children of kindergarten age. The Department of Education shall engage in emergency rulemaking under the Maine Administrative Procedure Act in order to implement the continued provision of free, appropriate public education services authorized in this Act on or before August 6, 2004. Emergency rules must also include provisions regarding the continued payment and apportionment of state funds provided for free, appropriate public education services for eligible children, including the state and federal MaineCare payment for providing free, appropriate public education services to any child who is already receiving these services through the Child Development Services System or its successor system, and whose parent chooses not to enroll the child in kindergarten until the start of the 2005-2006 school year. For the purposes of this section, "free, appropriate public education services" means those services as described under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 7725, subsection 5, and it is the intent of the Legislature that such services must continue to be provided to eligible children at no cost to the family. The Department of Education shall take steps to request and obtain any federal approval necessary to amend the State's plan for meeting