§6654. School-based child care grants

The department and the Department of Health and Human Services are authorized to provide assistance to school administrative units to assist the units in establishing school-based child care services. Any assistance provided must provide funds for 2 years and expenditure of those funds is considered expenditure of local funds in computing the unit's educational program costs in chapter 606. The department has full authority to administer any grant program that it operates under this section.

Sec. D-22. 20-A MRSA §7734-A, first ¶, as repealed and replaced by PL 1999, c. 296, §10, is amended to read:

In addition to the programs authorized in this chapter, school administrative units may provide services for children who are disabled in a manner consistent with sections 4251 to 4254, and the cost of such services is subsidizable as special education costs under chapter 606 606-B.

Sec. D-23. 20-A MRSA §8301-A, sub-§§4 and 9, as enacted by PL 1991, c. 518, §2, are amended to read:

4. Municipality. "Municipality" has the same meaning as in section 15603, subsection 19 15672, subsection 21.

9. State subsidy. "State subsidy" has the same meaning as in section 15603, subsection 26 15672, subsection 31-A.

Sec. D-24. 20-A MRSA §8351, as amended by PL 1991, c. 518, §9 and c. 716, §6 and PL 2003, c. 545, §5, is further amended to read:

§8351. State aid for career and technical education centers

and career and technical education regions

State aid for centers and regions must be administered in accordance with chapters 606 606-B and 609 and Title 20, section 3457.

Sec. D-25. 20-A MRSA §8402, as corrected by RR 2003, c. 2, §55, is amended to read:

§8402. Programs