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                          HOUSE BILL 3018

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By Representatives McMorris and Sump

Read first time 01/25/2000.  Referred to Committee on Education.

Changing state board of education allotment provisions for school plant facilities.

    AN ACT Relating to allotments by the state board of education for school plant facilities; and amending RCW 28A.525.168.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 28A.525.168 and 1990 c 33 s 458 are each amended to read as follows:

After January 1, 1998, whenever the voters of a school district authorize the issuance of bonds and/or the levying of excess taxes in an amount sufficient to meet the requirements of RCW 28A.525.162 respecting eligibility for state assistance in providing school facilities, the taxable valuation of the district and the percentage of state assistance in providing school facilities prevailing at the time of such authorization shall be the valuation and the percentage used for the purpose of determining the eligibility of the district for an allotment of state funds and the amount or amounts of such allotments, respectively, for all projects for which the voters authorize capital funds as aforesaid, unless the superintendent of public instruction was unable to calculate and provide the district's election year percentage of state assistance before the district's notice of election to the county auditor or a higher percentage of state assistance prevails on the date that state funds for assistance in financing a project are allotted by the state board of education in which case or cases, the percentage of state assistance for the calendar year preceding the year of voter authorization or the percentage prevailing on the date of allotment by the state board of funds for each project, whichever is highest, shall govern:  PROVIDED, That if the state board of education determines at any time that there has been undue or unwarranted delay on the part of school district authorities in advancing a project to the point of readiness for an allotment of state funds, the taxable valuation of the school district and the percentage of state assistance prevailing on the date that the allotment is made shall be used for the purposes aforesaid:  PROVIDED, FURTHER, That the date herein specified as applicable in determining the eligibility of an individual school district for state assistance and in determining the amount of such assistance shall be applicable also to cases where it is necessary in administering chapter 28A.540 RCW to determine eligibility for and the amount of state assistance for a group of school districts considered as a single school administrative unit.

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