CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1776

 

 

 

 

 

 

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 12, 1997

  Yeas 97   Nays 0

 

 

 

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate April 11, 1997

  Yeas 45   Nays 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1776  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

President of the Senate

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.  

                                FILED

          

 

 

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington

          _______________________________________________

 

                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1776

          _______________________________________________

 

             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Huff, H. Sommers, Alexander, Benson, Clements, Wensman, O'Brien and Boldt; by request of Office of Financial Management)

 

Read first time 02/28/97.

  Regarding school audits. 


    AN ACT Relating to school audits; and adding a new section to chapter 28A.300 RCW.

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 28A.300 RCW to read as follows:

    The superintendent of public instruction shall withhold or recover state payments to school districts, educational service districts, and other recipients of state money based on findings of the Washington state auditor.  When an audit questions enrollment, staffing, or other data reported to the state and used in state apportionment calculations, the superintendent of public instruction may require submission of revised data, or as an alternative may adjust data based on estimates, and shall revise apportionment calculations and payments accordingly.  The superintendent of public instruction shall adopt rules setting forth policies and procedures for the resolution of monetary and nonmonetary audit findings involving state money.

 

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