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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

AB 834

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Relating to: school district sparsity aid and and making an appropriation. (FE)

School — State aid

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a school district is eligible to receive sparsity aid if in the

previous school year all of the following criteria were satisfied:

1. The number of pupils enrolled in the school district was no more than 725.

2. At least 20 percent of the pupils were eligible for a free or reduced-price

lunch under the National School Lunch Program.

3. The number of pupils enrolled in the district divided by the school district's

area in square miles is less than ten.

This bill eliminates the first and second criteria, above. The bill also limits the

amount of sparsity aid that a school district may receive in any school year to

$750,000.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Clark (D) , Danou (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Milroy (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Ringhand (D) , Sargent (D) , Shankland (D) , Smith (D) , Wright (D)

3 cosponsors

Erpenbach (D) , Schultz (R) , Vinehout (D)

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Urban Education and take up, Ayes 37, Noes 54

Failed 37–54 Mar 20, 2014 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Feb 28, 2014 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Clark, Wright, Pope, Danou, Smith, Milroy, Ringhand, Shankland, Ohnstad, Hesselbein and Sargent; cosponsored by Senators Vinehout, Schultz and Erpenbach

  2. Feb 28, 2014 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Mar 12, 2014 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Mar 17, 2014 · Assembly

    Withdrawn from committee on Education and referred to committee on Urban Education pursuant to Assembly Rule 42 (3)(c)

  5. Mar 20, 2014 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Urban Education and take up, Ayes 37, Noes 54

  6. Apr 8, 2014 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1