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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 709

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Relating to: four-year-old kindergarten and making an appropriation. (FE)

Kindergarten Public instruction, department of School — Board 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

Current law permits, but does not require, the school board of a school district

to provide four-year-old kindergarten to eligible pupils. Under current law, unless

a school board has established standards for early admission to four-year-old

kindergarten, a pupil who is four years old on or before September 1 in the year that

he or she proposes to enter school is eligible for four-year-old kindergarten.

This bill requires each school board, other than the school board of a union high

school district, to make four-year-old kindergarten available to all eligible pupils

beginning in the 2019-20 school year. The bill requires the Department of Public

Instruction to provide state aid to each school district for the costs to operate a

four-year-old kindergarten program in the district. The bill adds this state aid for

four-year-old kindergarten to the definition of state aid for revenue limit purposes.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Berceau (D) , Billings (D) , Bowen (D) , Brostoff (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Crowley (D) , Fields (D) , Goyke (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Sargent (D) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D) , Vruwink (D) , Wachs (D) , Zamarripa (D) , Zepnick (D)

2 cosponsors

Johnson (D) , Miller (D)

Full history

  1. Dec 1, 2017 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives C. Taylor, Pope, Goyke, Brostoff, Zamarripa, Anderson, Fields, Berceau, Sargent, Wachs, Subeck, Crowley, Vruwink, Zepnick, Bowen, Ohnstad, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Shankland and Billings; cosponsored by Senators Johnson and Miller

  2. Dec 1, 2017 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Dec 27, 2017 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1