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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="5-214" title_number="5" title_name="Financing" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Aid to Education">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following terms have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Additional education appropriation” means the difference between a county’s education appropriation for the prior fiscal year and the county’s local share of the foundation program calculated under § 5–201 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Additional education effort” means a county’s additional education appropriation divided by the county’s wealth, rounded to seven decimal places.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Guaranteed tax base program per pupil amount” means the lesser of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>20% of the annual per pupil foundation amount; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The product of a county’s additional education effort and the difference between guaranteed wealth per pupil and local wealth per pupil.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Guaranteed wealth per pupil” means 80% of the statewide wealth per pupil.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>For fiscal year 2005 and each fiscal year thereafter, the State shall distribute guaranteed tax base grants to county boards as provided in this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A county board is eligible to receive a guaranteed tax base grant if the county’s:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Additional education effort is greater than zero; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Local wealth per pupil is less than the guaranteed wealth per pupil.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The amount of the guaranteed tax base grant shall be equal to the product of the county’s guaranteed tax base program per pupil amount and the county’s enrollment count.</text>
  </level>
</section>
