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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 502

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Relating to: payments for pupils who withdraw from a parental choice program, the Special Needs Scholarship Program, or an independent charter school. (FE)

Children — Special educational needs Parochial and private schools Public instruction department of School — Attendance School — Charter school

  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

Under current law, for each pupil attending a private school under the parental

choice program or the Special Needs Scholarship Program and for each pupil

attending an independent charter school, the Department of Public Instruction pays

a per pupil amount to the private school participating in a parental choice program

or the Special Needs Scholarship Program or the independent charter school. DPI

pays the annual per pupil amount to the private school or independent charter school

in four equal installments. Under the bill, if, during the school year, a pupil

withdraws from a private school participating in a parental choice program or the

Special Needs Scholarship Program or from an independent charter school and

enrolls in a school district, DPI must pay any remaining amount due to the private

school or independent charter school for that pupil to the school district in which the

pupil is enrolled.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Agard (D) , Carpenter (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Larson (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D)

16 cosponsors

Baldeh (D) , Billings (D) , C. Anderson (D) , Clancy (D) , Considine (D) , Emerson (D) , J. Anderson (D) , Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , Myers (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Subeck (D) , Vining (D)

Full history

  1. Oct 16, 2023 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Larson, Smith, Roys, Hesselbein, Agard, Spreitzer and Carpenter; cosponsored by Representatives Shelton, Joers, C. Anderson, Clancy, Jacobson, Considine, Myers, Vining, Madison, Baldeh, Subeck, Sinicki, Ratcliff and J. Anderson

  2. Oct 16, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Oct 19, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Billings added as a cosponsor

  4. Nov 15, 2023 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 21, 2024 · Senate

    Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor

  6. Apr 15, 2024 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1