FINAL BILL REPORT
2SSB 6062
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C 211 L 14
Synopsis as Enacted
Brief Description: Requiring internet access to public school data and expenditure information.
Sponsors: Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Hill, Litzow, Becker, Honeyford, Bailey, Hobbs, Angel, Fain, Braun and Tom).
Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education
Senate Committee on Ways & Means
House Committee on Education
Background: A collective bargaining agreement (CBA) is a legal contract between employers and employees that regulates the terms and conditions of employees in their workplace, their duties, and the duties of the employer. It is usually the result of a process of collective bargaining between an employer and a union representing workers. Specifically, in Washington the collective bargaining laws for school classified staff and certificated staff (but not superintendents or business managers) require that CBAs cover wages, hours, and terms and conditions of employment or working conditions.
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) is the primary agency charged with overseeing K-12 public education in Washington State. OSPI works with the state’s 295 school districts.
Summary: Each school district, charter school, and state-tribal compact school must publish on its website a copy of its public school employee collective bargaining agreements by September 1, 2014, and thereafter must update the website within 30 days of approval, renewal, or amendment of any such agreement.
Each school district that has an associated student body (ASB) program fund must publish the following information about the fund on its website:
the fund balance at the beginning of the school year;
summary data about expenditures and revenues occurring over the course of the school year; and
the fund balance at the end of the school year.
This information must be published for each ASB of the district and each account within the ASB program fund.
If the school district website contains separate websites for schools in the district, the information under this section must be published on the website of the applicable school of the ASB.
No later than August 31, 2014, school districts must publish this information on their websites for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years. School districts must add updated annual information to their websites.
Votes on Final Passage:
Senate | 40 | 9 | |
House | 91 | 5 | (House amended) |
Senate | 47 | 1 | (Senate concurred) |
Effective: | June 12, 2014 |