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House approves Senate Bill 5, adds funding for schools including a 6% WPU increase
Summary
Representative Gordon Snow summarized that the Legislature added 6% to the Weighted Pupil Unit and $269 million in combined ongoing and one‑time funding for schools; the House voted to pass S.B. 5 as amended.
Representative Gordon Snow presented Senate Bill 5 on the House floor as the package adjusting the minimum school program budget. Snow said the session added 6% to the Weighted Pupil Unit (WPU) and appropriated about $238 million in ongoing funds plus roughly $31 million in one‑time funds, totaling approximately $269 million (a 10.6% increase from the prior year).
Snow offered to take questions and then returned for summation, urging representatives to support the bill as a positive year for public education. The House then opened voting; the presiding officer announced Senate Bill 5 had received an affirmative vote and would be signed and referred to the Senate for the president’s signature.
The discussion on the floor emphasized the WPU increase and the breakdown of ongoing vs. one‑time funding; no floor amendments that altered the headline funding totals were recorded in the provided excerpt.
