6444-S AMS BRAN GREL 105

SSB 6444 - S AMD 208

By Senator Brandland

NOT ADOPTED 2/27/2010

    On page 208, after line 7, insert new subsection:

    "(5) Up to $78,474,000 in school district per-pupil expenditures for the student achievement program may be provided by school district funds, including but not limited to transfer of a portion of a school district's state allocations for health insurance, to the extent arrangements are made between school districts and the Washington education association or other entities with Washington state school district employee rate stabilization reserve trusts.  To the extent school districts’ expenditures for employee health and other benefits, agreed to prior to the effective date of this section, are paid by balances in rate stabilization reserve trusts, school districts will maintain their program expenditures on student achievement programs. Teachers must receive communication, in writing or electronically, informing them that the option exists."

EFFECT:   Provides for alternative funding of current student achievement programs to the extent trustees of school district employee rate stabilization reserves agree to use existing fund balances to defray local school districts' health and other employee benefit costs.

           Fiscal impact: none.

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