Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

SB 478

Relating to: school district expenditures for community programs and services and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)

Public instruction, department of Revenue, department of School — Finance School — Neighborhood use

Introduced, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a school district may establish community education,

training, recreational, cultural, or athletic programs and services. The school board

may collect fees to cover all or part of the costs of such community programs and

services. Current law excludes such costs from the school district's shared cost and

increases the school district's revenue limit by the amount of property taxes levied

for community programs and services. The Department of Public Instruction (DPI)

publishes guidelines regarding community service activities; see

http://sfs.dpi.w.gov/sfs_comm_serv_fund_info.

This bill directs DPI to promulgate rules defining eligible costs for community

programs and services and provides that only those expenditures that are eligible

costs under the rules are excluded from a school district's shared cost.

In addition, the bill requires each school board to submit an annual report to

the Department of Revenue (DOR) detailing the school board's expenditures in the

previous school year for community programs and services. DOR must determine

for each school district whether any such expenditures were ineligible under DPI's

rules and certify to DPI the total amount of ineligible expenditures for each school

district. The bill decreases a school district's revenue limit by the amount of its

ineligible expenditures.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 9, Noes 0

Passed 9–0 Mar 13, 2014 official source full page

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

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 9, Noes 0