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Senate concurs to HB 15, applying inflationary adjustments to K‑12 funding; vote 34‑16
Summary
The Senate Committee of the Whole recommended concurrence on House Bill 15, which applies a 3% inflationary adjustment to components of the K‑12 school funding formula. Senators debated the permanence of the increase and its fiscal impact on state and local budgets before voting 34‑16 in committee.
House Bill 15, carried in the committee by Senator Fuller, would apply an inflationary adjustment to school‑funding formula components used to calculate K‑12 budgets.
Senator Fuller described the bill as the routine inflationary adjustment for K‑12 funding and told members that the bill "does not appropriate funds" but "only defines the legislative intent to appropriate and this funding is included in the executive budget and currently appropriated in House Bill 2."
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