This text of Louisiana § 17:407.27 (The Cecil J. Picard LA 4 Early Childhood Program; early childhood development) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Louisiana primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
§407.27. The Cecil J. Picard LA 4 Early Childhood Program; early childhood development
and enrichment activity classes; financial assistance
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any public or private
entity, including any nonprofit organization, may make a directed donation to any
participating school district for a student who is enrolled in Cecil J. Picard LA 4 Early
Childhood Program classes.
B.
(1)Recognizing the success and growth of the Cecil J. Picard LA 4 Early
Childhood Program and in order to maintain the long-term financial stability of the program,
private businesses, industry, foundations, charities, and other groups may ask the division
of administration for, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, authority to
create privately funded s
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§407.27. The Cecil J. Picard LA 4 Early Childhood Program; early childhood development
and enrichment activity classes; financial assistance
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any public or private
entity, including any nonprofit organization, may make a directed donation to any
participating school district for a student who is enrolled in Cecil J. Picard LA 4 Early
Childhood Program classes.
B.(1) Recognizing the success and growth of the Cecil J. Picard LA 4 Early
Childhood Program and in order to maintain the long-term financial stability of the program,
private businesses, industry, foundations, charities, and other groups may ask the division
of administration for, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, authority to
create privately funded scholarship programs to make payments to participating school
districts on behalf of qualified students. If the division of administration authorizes a private
scholarship program, scholarship funds received by a participating school district from a
private scholarship program on behalf of a student shall cause a reduction in the dollar
amount of the allocation to the participating school district such that the allocation shall be
an amount that is equal to the dollar amount that the allocation would have been if no private
scholarship funds had been received less the amount of private scholarship funds received
by the participating school district.
(2) This Subsection shall in no way be interpreted in such a manner that a
participating school district would receive less benefits from a combination of the allocation
from the program and the private scholarship funds received than it would have received
solely from the allocation if there had been no private scholarship funded. Therefore, to the
extent that any privately funded scholarship funds provided for in this Subsection made to
a participating school district are for an amount less than the amount the participating school
district would have otherwise received as an allocation if no such private scholarship funds
had been paid under this Subsection, then the participating school district shall receive that
difference as an allocation under the program.
(3) As provided in this Subsection, when a participating school district receives
privately funded scholarship funds pursuant to this Subsection, the annual appropriation of
state funds for the Cecil J. Picard LA 4 Early Childhood Program shall be reduced by the
amount of the private scholarship program funds so received. The commissioner of
administration shall determine and specify the amount of the reduction from the source of
the funds to provide the maximum benefit to the state from the privately funded scholarship
program. The state treasurer shall deposit the amount of the reduction as specified by the
commissioner of administration into the Overcollections Fund created in R. S. 39:100.21 and
credit the deposit to an account within the fund hereby established and created to be known
as the "Program Participation Savings Account".
C. Nothing in this Section shall be construed or implemented in a manner that would
cause the loss of any federal or other funding for any early childhood programs or services,
including but not limited to the Cecil J. Picard LA 4 Early Childhood Program and the Child
Care and Development Fund.