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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 395

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Relating to: restrictions on the revenue ceiling for school districts. (FE)

Referendum School — Finance

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, 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 provides a minimum per pupil revenue limit for school districts,

known as the revenue ceiling. Under current law, the per pupil revenue ceiling is

$11,000 in the 2023-24 school year and each school year thereafter. Current law 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 ceiling

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

was held. The bill eliminates the provision under which a school district's revenue

ceiling is the revenue ceiling from a previous school year because an operating

referendum failed in the school district.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Ballweg (R) , Cowles (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Larson (D) , Pfaff (D) , Quinn (R) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Testin (R) , Wanggaard (R)

20 cosponsors

Andraca (D) , Armstrong (R) , Binsfeld (R) , C. Anderson (D) , Considine (D) , Dittrich (R) , Doyle (D) , Emerson (D) , Goeben (R) , Green (R) , Jacobson (D) , Novak (R) , Oldenburg (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , S. Johnson (R) , Sapik (R) , Schmidt (R) , Shankland (D) , Steffen (R) , Tittl (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 7, Noes 0

Passed 7–0 Sep 28, 2023 official source full page

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

Senate: PASSAGE

Passed 31–1 Oct 17, 2023 official source full page

Nay · 1

Not voting · 1

Full history

  1. Aug 25, 2023 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Testin, Wanggaard, Ballweg, Cowles, Felzkowski, Larson, Pfaff, Smith, Spreitzer and Quinn; cosponsored by Representatives Green, Armstrong, C. Anderson, Binsfeld, Dittrich, Doyle, Goeben, S. Johnson, Novak, Oldenburg, Ortiz-Velez, Sapik, Schmidt, Shankland, Steffen, Considine and Tittl

  2. Aug 25, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Aug 31, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  4. Sep 6, 2023 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Sep 26, 2023 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  6. Sep 28, 2023 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  7. Sep 28, 2023 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 7, Noes 0

  8. Sep 28, 2023 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  9. Oct 16, 2023 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 10-17-2023 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  10. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  11. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  12. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 31, Noes 1

  13. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  14. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  15. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Read a second time

  16. Feb 14, 2024 · Assembly

    Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor

  17. Mar 14, 2024 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  18. Mar 18, 2024 · Assembly

    Representative Andraca added as a cosponsor

  19. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1