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Senate Bill 34 would align Montana K‑12 budget-limit language with current practice
Summary
SB 34, carried by Sen. Daniel Emrich at the request of the Education Interim Committee, would remove obsolete tuition-calculation language and clarify budget-limit calculations for K‑12 districts; proponents described it as a technical cleanup with no fiscal impact.
Senate Bill 34, introduced Jan. 14 to the Senate Education Committee by Senator Daniel Emrich, would revise K‑12 school finance statutes to remove obsolete language about tuition calculations and clarify how budget-limit calculations are applied to elementary and high school budgetary units.
"This was requested by the education interim committee," Senator Daniel Emrich said, and he described the bill as "an act generally revising laws…
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