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WA HB1746

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/30/2025

Primary Sponsor

Lawrence Springer

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Increases the state local effort assistance threshold from $1,550 to $2,000 per student (adjusted for inflation from 2019), providing additional state funding to supplement enrichment levies in lower-property-wealth school districts.

  • Raises the maximum per-student local effort assistance for state-tribal education compact schools from $1,550 to $2,000 (adjusted for inflation from 2019), beginning in calendar year 2022.

  • Extends local effort assistance funding to charter schools beginning in calendar year 2025, with funding equal to the actual enrichment levy per student in the school district where the charter is located, up to $2,000 per student.

  • Removes temporary provisions that allowed districts to use 2019-20 enrollment figures instead of actual enrollment during 2022 and 2023 calendar years.

  • Applies retroactively to calendar year 2025, requiring the state to provide any additional amounts owed if distributions began before the act's effective date.

Legislative Description

Providing local effort assistance for public schools.

Last Action

By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.

1/12/2026

Committee Referrals

Appropriations1/30/2025

Full Bill Text

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