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                                         SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 5263

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Senators Gaspard, Bailey, Bender, Bauer, von Reichbauer, Johnson, Conner, Smitherman, Garrett, Talmadge, Moore, Wojahn, Warnke, Rinehart, Peterson, Vognild, Kiskaddon, Saling, Anderson and Benitz)

Read first time 1/20/88.

AN ACT Relating to basic education allocation for vocational education; adding new sections to chapter 28A.41 RCW; and making an appropriation.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 28A.41 RCW to read as follows:

         Commencing with the 1988-89 school year, the formula adopted by the legislature pursuant to RCW 28A.41.140 shall include a ratio of ninety-two one-hundredths certificated instructional staff and eight one-hundredths certificated administrative staff to sixteen and sixty-seven one-hundredths annual average full time equivalent students in grades nine through twelve enrolled in vocational education programs approved by the superintendent of public instruction:  PROVIDED, That any increase in funds generated by the change in the ratio of certificated personnel to annual average full time equivalent vocational students shall be used by local school districts to provide additional support for their local vocational education programs commencing with the 1988-89 school year.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 28A.41 RCW to read as follows:

          The superintendent of public instruction shall adopt rules that establish program approval standards for determining the terms and conditions under which school districts are eligible to receive state funds for secondary vocational education.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.     The sum of three million three hundred eighty-three thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the general fund for the biennium ending June 30, 1989, to the superintendent of public instruction for the purposes of section 1 of this act.