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Agreement includes sunset for unemployment insurance for hourly school workers; E‑12 education bill to move to floor
Summary
Leaders said the house education finance (E‑12) bill that includes a Republican provision to sunset unemployment insurance for hourly school workers in four years will be heard and is expected to pass the House; conference committees will decide final status of the sunset provision.
Leaders at the press conference described an agreement on top‑line targets that affects unemployment insurance for hourly school workers. They said the house E‑12 education finance bill includes a provision that would make unemployment insurance for hourly school workers expire, or "sunset," in four years.
House leaders said that the E‑12 bill would be heard on the floor and was expected to pass the House the next day. They also said a separate bill would fully fund unemployment insurance for school hourly workers in the first biennium, and that those funding measures would be considered by the legislature in the near term.
Leaders cautioned that the sunset provision is a House Republican proposal and that conferees in conference committee may remove it before final enactment. They described the provision as a point of significant negotiation that delayed the education bill and said the final outcome will be determined in conference committee and on floor votes.
Why it matters: school districts and hourly workers had raised concerns about costs and access to summer work; leaders said some school officials told them the change is affordable and that districts can offer summer work if desired. Officials emphasized further work in conference committees would refine the policy and funding language.
