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House amends and passes bill raising school district construction threshold to $60,000
Summary
Lawmakers amended a committee increase and passed House Bill 70 to raise the dollar threshold districts may spend in-house on construction without bidding; the House adopted an amendment lowering the committee’s $80,000 figure to $60,000 before passage and referred the bill to the Senate.
House members voted Jan. 26 to pass House Bill 70, which revises the dollar threshold that allows school districts to authorize construction work using district staffing without a public bid. The sponsor explained the change updates a 1978 threshold of $30,000 and the committee had amended the bill to set the level at $80,000.
Representative Peterson said he had investigated indexing the threshold but concluded…
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