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Bill would let school districts apply inflation adjustment to overbase budgets without extra election; committee hears fiscal tradeoffs
Summary
Representative Luke Muszkiewicz introduced House Bill 265 to permit school districts that have previously adopted voted overbase budgets to receive the full inflationary adjustment adopted by the legislature without holding a new election.
Representative Luke Muszkiewicz told the House Education Committee that House Bill 265 would allow school districts to apply the full inflationary adjustment enacted by the legislature to the portion of their budgets above the base (the “overbase”) without conducting a separate voted levy.
“House bill 2 65 is an attempt to resolve this redundant, unnecessary obstacle that conflicts with the legislature's own definition of quality public education,” Muszkiewicz said. He described the current effect: when the legislature provides, for example, a 3% inflationary adjustment through House Bill 15, districts that had adopted the maximum (max) budget receive only 80%…
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