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House Bill No.
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Senate Bill No.
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Name
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Current Status
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Sponsor
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What it Does
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Potential New Revenue (Unknown New Expenditures)
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HB2593
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School district accounting, budgeting, and reporting requirements
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House Ed 1/26 1:30pm
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Rude, Callan, Pollet, OSPI
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Minimum Fund balance: 6%-12% of prior-year state apportionment revenue. Must be realized by the 2030-31 school year.
School districts must submit monthly budget status reports to OSPI by the end of the next calendar month.
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Based on 2024-25, the minimum fund balance would need to be between $7.8 million and $15.6 million.
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HB1122
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SB5346
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Restricting mobile device usage by public school students.
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Senate Ed 1/29 10:30am
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Liias, Harris, Shewmake, Dozier, Bateman, Christian, Frame, Hasegawa, King, Krishnadasan, Lovick, Nobles, Salomon
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Help public schools implement best practices by providing research on student use of mobile devices and recommended best practice strategies for teaching students how to use their mobile devices responsibly.
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No fiscal impact
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SB6125
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Providing enrollment stabilization funding
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Senate Ed 1/29 10:30am
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Wellman, Bateman, Nobles
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Uses 2025-26 enrollment for 2026-27 and 2028-29 apportionment formulas, if enrollment in the coming years is lower than 2025-26. This bill expires after 2027-28.
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Potential revenue is unknown
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SB6260
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Efficiencies and programming changes in public education
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Senate EL & K12 1/27 at 8am
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Wellman, Nobles, Wilson, C.
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School bus depreciation changed to 180 months (15 years instead of 13 years).
- OSPI shall withold 1.9% of High School MSOC apportionment for licenses for high school & beyond planning.
- Running Start FTE changed from 1.4 to 1.2
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Indeterminate lost revenue. MSOC lost is $11,000.
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HB2160
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SB5883
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Eligibility for membership in the school employees' benefits board
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House Approps
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Bernbaum, Parshley, Leavitt
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Benefits eligibility is presumed at the start of a school year if the school employee worked at least 630 hours in the prior school year and returns to the same type of position with any employer.
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New costs: 19 additional employees eligible for benefits
Monthly $24,833
Annual $297,996
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HB2369
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Promoting the use of local foods in public schools.
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House Ed
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Reeves, Ramel, Reed, Kloba, Scott, Duerr, Doglio, Stonier, Berg, Fosse, Salahuddin, Thai, Bernbaum
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Support at the state level to foster the use of Washington-grown food in our schools. Grants to schools to support programs similar to our Freedom Farm.
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Potential grant funds to support Freedom Farm.
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HB2375
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Running start allocations granted to school districts
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Not scheduled
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Marshall
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Adjusts the Running Start withholding for school districts from 7% to the share of funding above tuition and fees.
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New Revenue of $1,738,000. Costs are indeterminate.
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SB5858
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pupil transportation safety net funding for special passengers
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Senate EL & K12 passed
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Wellman, Krishnadasan
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We received $71,000 in 2024-25 and $211,000 in 2023-24. The funding was cut in 2025-26. Funding is provided for the excess cost of transporting students that are experiencing homelessness, foster care, or special needs. These funds help bridge the gap between state basic ed allocations and actual costs.
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New revenue as high as $230,000
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HB2147
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SB5918
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Funding for school materials, supplies, and operating costs
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Senate EL & K12
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Wellman, Conway, Hasegawa, Nobles, Riccelli, Slatter, Stanford, Wilson, C., OSPI Request
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Increases allocations for materials, supplies, and operating costs by $100 per student or $100,000 per school district, whichever is greater, beginning in the 2026-27 school year.
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$888,300
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