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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="5-216" title_number="5" title_name="Financing" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Aid to Education">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subsection, “comparable wage index (CWI) adjustment” means, for each county, the foundation program multiplied by:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <level label="0">
        <text>000 in Allegany;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="0">
        <text>109 in Anne Arundel;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="0">
        <text>066 in Baltimore City;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <level label="0">
        <text>065 in Baltimore;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <level label="0">
        <text>079 in Calvert;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <level label="0">
        <text>000 in Caroline;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <level label="0">
        <text>000 in Carroll;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <level label="0">
        <text>000 in Cecil;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <level label="0">
        <text>055 in Charles;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <level label="0">
        <text>000 in Dorchester;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <level label="0">
        <text>047 in Frederick;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <level label="0">
        <text>000 in Garrett;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="13">
      <level label="0">
        <text>073 in Harford;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="14">
      <level label="0">
        <text>131 in Howard;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="15">
      <level label="0">
        <text>000 in Kent;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="16">
      <level label="0">
        <text>166 in Montgomery;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="17">
      <level label="0">
        <text>129 in Prince George’s;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="18">
      <level label="0">
        <text>000 in Queen Anne’s;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="19">
      <level label="0">
        <text>079 in St. Mary’s;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="20">
      <level label="0">
        <text>000 in Somerset;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="21">
      <level label="0">
        <text>000 in Talbot;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="22">
      <level label="0">
        <text>000 in Washington;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="23">
      <level label="0">
        <text>000 in Wicomico; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="24">
      <level label="0">
        <text>000 in Worcester.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>For fiscal year 2024 and each fiscal year thereafter, in addition to the foundation program each county shall receive a grant to reflect the regional differences of the cost to hire personnel that are due to factors outside of the control of the local jurisdiction.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The amount of the grant under this section shall equal, for each county, the product of the CWI adjustment and:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>49% in fiscal year 2024;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>49% in fiscal year 2025;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>47% in fiscal year 2026;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>46% in fiscal year 2027;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>45% in fiscal year 2028;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>44% in fiscal year 2029;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>43% in fiscal year 2030;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>42% in fiscal year 2031;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>42% in fiscal year 2032; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>41% in fiscal year 2033 and each fiscal year thereafter.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Subject to subsection (c) of this section, the State share and local share of the grant calculated under paragraph (2) of this subsection shall be calculated in the same manner as the State share and local share of the foundation program.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Each fiscal year the county board shall distribute to each school the minimum school funding amount for the grant calculated under § 5–234 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
</section>
