BILL REQ. #: H-2386.1

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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1969
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State of Washington

61st Legislature

2009 Regular Session

By House Education Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Haigh, Appleton, Kagi, Seaquist, Hurst, O'Brien, Morrell, Green, Dickerson, and Sullivan)

READ FIRST TIME 01/26/10.

AN ACT Relating to promoting predictable funding for school districts that provide residential education; and adding new sections to chapter 28A.190 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 28A.190 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) The superintendent of public instruction shall submit to each regular session of the legislature during an odd-numbered year a budget request for residential education.
     (2) The superintendent of public instruction shall allocate funding appropriated by the legislature for residential education to the school districts and educational service districts that are required to conduct a program under this chapter and under RCW 13.04.145.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2 A new section is added to chapter 28A.190 RCW to read as follows:
Beginning with the 2009-10 school year, for those school districts or educational service districts that provide instruction to students in state detention facilities under RCW 28A.190.010 or in county juvenile detention facilities under RCW 13.04.145, each such district's allocations attributable to those facilities must be based on enrollment that is the greater of the current school year's enrollment or ninety percent of the previous school year's enrollment.

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