HB 1369 Summary

• Defines "Average Daily Membership (ADM)" as total student enrollment divided by instructional days, effective fiscal year 2024-2025, replacing reliance on Average Daily Attendance (ADA) for MAEP funding calculations.

• Requires State Auditor to conduct actual student counts in months two and three of the school year with no advance notice; districts reporting ADM more than 103% above actual count will be reduced to 103% for funding purposes.

• Establishes 90% attendance threshold: school districts funded on ADM unless average attendance falls below 90% of ADM, in which case funding reverts to ADA basis.

• Reduces minimum school term attendance requirement from 63% to 60% of the normal instructional day for both teachers and pupils in regular attendance.

• Eliminates the rule that a student absent more than 37% of an instructional day must be marked absent for the entire day; absences are now recorded by actual partial or full-day absence.