D. An agency shall file an annual financial report detailing the allowable expenditures and the computation of the tuition rate at such time and in the form the commissioner may require.

E. Increases in the tuition rate from one year to the next may not exceed the tuition rate established through negotiation unless evidence is presented to the commissioner that a hardship will exist if a higher rate of increase is not approved, and this evidence is determined sufficient by the commissioner.

F. The commissioner shall establish a tuition rate for new special education programs in special purpose private schools and private general purpose agencies based on the estimated allowable costs of these schools.

Sec. A-36. 20-A MRSA §7502, as amended by PL 1991, c. 655, §6, is further amended to read:

§7502. State institutions

The director of a state institution shall apply to the superintendent of the school administrative unit in which the institution is located, or in any adjoining unit, for children in the institution to attend that unit's schools. These exceptional students children with disabilities are entitled to attend under the same conditions as apply to students residing in the school administrative unit and under the rules of the department relating to special education.

Sec. A-37. 20-A MRSA c. 307-A, as amended, is repealed.

Sec. A-38. 20-A MRSA §13024, sub-§1, ¶C, as enacted by PL 2005, c. 457, Pt. FF, §3, is amended to read:

C. Personnel employed by or serving the school administrative unit as contracted service providers; and

Sec. A-39. 20-A MRSA §13024, sub-§1, ¶D, as enacted by PL 2005, c. 457, Pt. FF, §3, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:

D.__Personnel for whom certification or authorization is not required prior to being hired or being placed under contract by a public school or an intermediate educational unit.

Sec. A-40. 20-A MRSA §13024, sub-§1, ¶E, as enacted by PL