SB 690

Revenue limit ceiling

This bill increases the revenue limit ceiling for school districts to $9,400 in the

2018-19 school year, and then increases the ceiling by $100 each school year until

the ceiling reaches $9,800 in the 2022-23 school year. However, the bill also provides

that during the three school years following a school year in which an operating

referendum fails in a school district, the school district's revenue limit ceiling is the

revenue limit ceiling that applied in the school year during which the referendum

was held.

Under current law, the formula for determining a school district's revenue limit

does not apply to a school district with per pupil revenue that is less than the revenue

limit ceiling. Instead, the school district is allowed to increase its per pupil revenue

up to the revenue limit ceiling. The current revenue limit ceiling is $9,100.

Sparsity aid

Beginning in the 2018-19 school year, this bill increases the sparsity aid per

pupil amount from $300 to $400. Under current law, a school district is eligible for

sparsity aid if the school district's membership in the previous school year did not

exceed 745 pupils and the school district's membership divided by the school district's

area in square miles is less than ten. Current law also provides a reduced amount

of sparsity aid to a school district that was eligible to receive sparsity aid in the

previous school year but does not satisfy the criteria in the current school year.