SENATE BILL REPORT

                            HB 1495

   AS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, MARCH 31, 1993

Brief Description:  Changing local effort assistance distribution.

SPONSORS: Representatives Dorn, Brough, Ogden, Rayburn, G. Cole, Springer and G. Fisher

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

Majority Report:  Do pass. 

     Signed by Senators Pelz, Chairman; McAuliffe, Vice Chairman; Hochstatter, Moyer, Nelson, M. Rasmussen, Rinehart, Skratek, and A. Smith.

Staff:  Leslie Goldstein (786‑7424)

Hearing Dates: March 24, 1993; March 31, 1993

BACKGROUND:

In 1992, the Legislature changed the levy statutes, increasing the levy base and changing the state payment schedule for state levy equalization funds to match the receipt of school district property taxes.  An unanticipated effect of the change in the payment schedule shifted 17 percent of the state levy equalization payments from one school year to another. 

SUMMARY:

The state payment schedule for levy equalization allocations is modified shifting 17 percent of the October payment to August.

Appropriation: none 

Revenue:  none

Fiscal Note:  available

TESTIMONY FOR:

This legislation helps "property poor" school districts.

TESTIMONY AGAINST:  None

TESTIFIED:  John Kvamme, Tacoma School District (pro)