Committee approves amendment allowing interim committees to include calculated increases in base aid
House Bill 266, which revises how the present-law base for school funding may be adjusted, was amended to make inclusion 'may' rather than mandatory and advanced to the House floor after a roll-call vote of 15-0 in committee.
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The House Education Committee on executive action approved House Bill 266 as amended. Committee staff described the amendment as providing that a calculated amount "could be included in the present law base" only if adopted by motion of two interim committees — the interim education budget committee and the education interim committee — changing a mandatory inclusion to discretionary language.
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