HF525 Summary

• Modifies the pupil transportation adjustment calculation by changing the percentage from 18.2 percent to a lower unspecified percentage (text indicates "18.2 ___") for calculating the difference between district transportation costs and baseline revenue.

• Creates a pupil transportation working group to review transportation delivery models, state laws, funding strategies, and the effects of eliminating categorical transportation funding, with representatives from 14 specified education organizations plus 6 additional commissioner-appointed members.

• Requires the working group to submit a report by January 15, 2020 to legislative committees with jurisdiction over K-12 education, including findings, recommendations, and a ten-year strategic plan to improve funding fairness.

• Authorizes the legislature to convene a legislative study group at its 2020 session to review the working group's recommendations and develop its own legislative proposals as needed.

• Makes the calculation amendment effective for revenue in fiscal year 2020 and later, and makes the working group provisions effective the day following final enactment.