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Senate approves substitute to boost state support for local school leeway; funding left to appropriators
Summary
The Senate passed a substitute to SB19 intended to guarantee a minimum yield per weighted pupil unit for local voted and board leeway, citing a first-year fiscal note of about $2.385 million and potential multi-year growth depending on district participation; funding will be resolved in the appropriations process.
The Utah Senate on Jan. 30 approved first substitute Senate Bill 19, a measure to increase state guarantees for local school districts' voted and board leeway. Sponsor Senator Howard A. Stevenson described the substitute as an effort to reduce wide disparities in per-student revenue that result from differences in local tax bases.
Stevenson said the substitute guarantees roughly $12 per weighted pupil unit for the first mill and phases in expanded guarantees over several years, with indexing tied to the weighted pupil unit. "The intent of this…
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