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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 508

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Relating to: counting pupils enrolled in four-year-old kindergarten for purposes of state aid and revenue limits. (FE)

Kindergarten School — State aid

  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

This bill changes how a pupil enrolled in a four-year-old kindergarten is

counted by a school district for purposes of state aid and revenue limits. Under

current law, a pupil enrolled in a four-year-old kindergarten program is counted as

0.5 pupils unless the program provides at least 87.5 additional hours of outreach

activities, in which case the pupil is counted as 0.6 pupils. Under the bill, beginning

with state aid paid in the 2024-25 school year and revenue limits calculated for the

2024-25 school year, if the four-year-old kindergarten program requires full-day

attendance by pupils for five days a week, a pupil enrolled in the program is counted

as one pupil.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Agard (D) , Hesselbein (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D)

22 cosponsors

Baldeh (D) , C. Anderson (D) , Cabrera (D) , Clancy (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Emerson (D) , Haywood (D) , Hong (D) , J. Anderson (D) , Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Madison (D) , Myers (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Palmeri (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Shankland (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stubbs (D)

Full history

  1. Oct 16, 2023 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Larson, Roys, L. Johnson, Smith, Hesselbein, Agard and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Shelton, Myers, C. Anderson, Clancy, Shankland, Madison, J. Anderson, Baldeh, Cabrera, Conley, Considine, Haywood, Hong, Joers, Ohnstad, Palmeri, Ratcliff, Sinicki, Snodgrass and Stubbs

  2. Oct 16, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Oct 27, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Jacobson 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