Committee recommends 'ought to pass as amended' for LD 181 after fiscal-note review

The Education and Cultural Affairs Committee recommended “ought to pass as amended” on LD 181, a bill to modify the calculation of pupil counts used to determine school administrative unit operating costs, after staff presented a revised fiscal note, an analyst said.

Representative Kelly Murphy said the committee would receive a brief update on a prefiled bill before staff presented the fiscal analysis. An analyst from the School Finance Office told the committee, “This is an act to modify the calculation of pupil counts used for determination of school administrative unit operating costs.”

The analyst said the committee had previously given the bill a unanimous recommendation of “ought to pass as amended,” with the amendment consisting of incorporating the fiscal note into the bill text or committee report. “So we had done a so this was a unanimous ought to pass as amended with the amendment being the incorporation of the fiscal note,” the analyst said. The analyst also told members they had returned to the committee on Monday with a revised fiscal note after questions about how staff calculated the increase to the total cost.

The transcript does not specify the numeric increase in total cost contained in the revised fiscal note. Committee members asked follow-up questions about what produced the particular number in the revision, the analyst said, but no further dollar amounts or technical inputs were read into the record during the portions of the meeting provided.

Votes at a glance LD 181 — Ought to pass as amended (fiscal note incorporated): unanimous committee recommendation (mover/second not specified).