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Senate Education Committee concurs with House amendments, fixes technical errors and eases blow to high-growth districts
Summary
The Senate Education Committee approved concurrence with House amendments, correcting a technical reference to the prior three-year ADM and adopting a change that softens the impact on districts meeting the state's "high growth" definition (4% or greater growth) before returning them to the regular wealth index.
The Senate Education Committee voted to concur with House amendments to a school funding measure and approved two technical fixes, committee members said.
Brad Montgomery, public school facilities and transportation, told the committee the first amendment "was to correct a technical error" that had "left off the greater of the prior 3 year ADM," and that a second correction fixed an incorrect subdivision reference. He said a further amendment was intended to "soften the blow" for some districts that meet the statutory definition of high growth.
The high-growth definition discussed in committee is a district that "in the present year, has experienced 4% or greater growth than the school year that is 2 years prior," Montgomery said, and the amendment provides that if a district fails to meet that definition for two consecutive years it will revert to the regular calculated wealth index like other districts.
The presiding senator called the motions and the committee approved the corrections and concurrence by voice vote. The record shows committee members responded "Aye" to the motions; no formal roll-call votes or numbered tallies were recorded in the transcript.
Votes at a glance Concur with House amendment (referred to in the record as "5 22"): Passed by voice vote (Aye). (Record: SEG 001–023.) Approve technical correction removing erroneous language and correcting subdivision reference: Passed by voice vote (Aye). (Record: SEG 048–059; SEG 084–110.)
The committee briefly addressed other procedural items and assignments (mentions of handling Alan Clark's item and a separate bill), then adjourned.
