Referred to the House Appropriations Committee on January 9, 2017
Substitute offered in the House on January 12, 2017
Placed on Second Reading calendar January 16, 2017. Delays for one year changes to the formulas for calculating school districts' maximum maintenance and operation levy authority, and corresponding local effort assistance. Each of the following provisions that were scheduled to change beginning in calendar year 2018 are delayed by one year to calendar year 2019: the 4 percentage-point reduction in the levy lid; the elimination of additional calculated amounts from the levy base; and the change in the equalization rate from 14 percent to 12 percent..
Amendment offered by Rep. Jesse Young (Gig Harbor) (R) on January 23, 2017
By September 1, 2017, requires school districts to
report a financial plan for addressing any reduction in revenue that
they estimate will occur as a result of the change in the maximum
allowable levy collections and related local effort assistance
revenue as well as any reductions in federal revenues. The
Superintendent of Public Instruction must provide a report on the
fiscal plans to the Legislature by October 1, 2017.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on January 23, 2017