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Education subcommittee reviews four retained school‑funding bills, makes no recommendation and schedules follow‑up
Summary
A legislative subcommittee met to review four education funding bills kept from earlier hearings, debated major changes to adequacy and the SWEPT tax, and agreed not to advance any of the bills today; a follow‑up meeting was set for Sept. 30 to consider department data and further amendments.
The Chair of the Subcommittee on Adequacy and Funding Sources called a work session to order to review four bills retained from earlier hearings: HB651, HB772, HB491 and HB734. The session focused on whether any of the four retained measures should be recommended to the full committee, and on what additional information the subcommittee needs before taking action.
The subcommittee did not take public testimony and heard summaries and discussion from lawmakers who sponsored or had worked on the measures. Representative Ames summarized HB651 as “a bill that builds on [a court] finding” about the statutory base cost of an adequate education and that the bill “puts before us the proposition that the legislature should in turn define that this amount of money, at least as a minimum, is what’s required for an adequate education.” Members discussed whether the bill’s figures should be advanced now or held for a later budgeting cycle.
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