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Ways and Means advances education finance bill after narrow votes on unemployment and amendments
Summary
The House Ways and Means Committee recommended House File 2,433, the Education Finance Bill, to the general register after adopting DE3 and rejecting an amendment to retain expanded unemployment insurance for K‑12 hourly workers on a 14–14 roll call.
The House Ways and Means Committee recommended House File 2,433, the Education Finance Bill, to the general register following adoption of a DE3 amendment and a tied roll-call defeat of an amendment that would have reversed a scheduled rollback of unemployment insurance coverage for hourly school workers.
The bill implements a $40 million REED Act allocation in the first biennium, keeps the base budget at a zero change from the February forecast and includes multiple policy provisions governing literacy instruction, school grant structures and targeted aids. The committee adopted DE3 by voice vote; Representative Pinto’s A22 amendment to restore unemployment insurance for hourly school workers failed on a roll call that ended 14 ayes and 14 nays.
“While we made great progress in the 2023–24 session in both finance and policy, there was still more to do for the growing needs of our school districts, teachers, and…
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