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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1839

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Rockefeller, Cox, Haigh and Talcott)

Read first time 02/26/2001.  Referred to Committee on .

Changing local effort assistance provisions.

    AN ACT Relating to local effort assistance; and amending RCW 28A.500.030.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 28A.500.030 and 1999 c 317 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Allocation of state matching funds to eligible districts for local effort assistance shall be determined as follows:

    (((1))) (a) Funds raised by the district through maintenance and operation levies shall be matched with state funds using the following ratio of state funds to levy funds:

    (((a))) (i) The difference between the district's twelve percent levy rate and the statewide average twelve percent levy rate; to

    (((b))) (ii) The statewide average twelve percent levy rate.

    (((2))) (b) The maximum amount of state matching funds for districts eligible for local effort assistance shall be the district's twelve percent levy amount, multiplied by the following percentage:

    (((a))) (i) The difference between the district's twelve percent levy rate and the statewide average twelve percent levy rate; divided by

    (((b))) (ii) The district's twelve percent levy rate.

(2) For school districts without a voter-approved maintenance and operation levy, state matching money shall be provided as described in this section if the district requested a maintenance and operation levy subsequent to January 1, 2001, that received an affirmative vote from a majority but fewer than three-fifths of the voters voting on the ballot proposition.  The amount requested meeting the criteria in this subsection shall be used in lieu of funds raised for calculations in subsection (1) of this section.  If the district made more than one unsuccessful attempt subsequent to January 1, 2001, to pass a maintenance and operation levy for the school year, the amount receiving the largest percentage affirmative votes shall be used in lieu of funds raised for calculations in subsection (1) of this section.

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