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HOUSE BILL 1534
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By Representatives J. Kohl, Van Luven, Locke, Leonard, Appelwick, Johanson, G. Cole, Anderson, Thibaudeau, Jacobsen, Sommers, Finkbeiner, Wineberry, Heavey, Valle and Quall
Read first time 02/01/93. Referred to Committee on Education.
AN ACT Relating to school levies; amending RCW 28A.500.010; and repealing RCW 84.52.0531.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 28A.500.010 and 1992 c 49 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Commencing with taxes assessed in ((1988))
1993 to be collected in calendar year ((1989)) 1994 and
thereafter, in addition to a school district's other general fund allocations,
each eligible district shall be provided local effort assistance funds as
provided in this section. Such funds are not part of the district's basic
education allocation. ((For the first distribution of local effort
assistance funds provided under this section in calendar year 1989, state funds
may be prorated according to the formula in this section.))
(2)(a) "Prior tax collection year" shall mean the year immediately preceding the year in which the local effort assistance shall be allocated.
(b) The "state-wide average ((ten
percent)) levy rate" shall mean ((ten percent of)) the total
levy bases as defined in RCW 84.52.0531(4) summed for all school districts, and
divided by the total assessed valuation for excess levy purposes in the prior
tax collection year for all districts as adjusted to one hundred percent by the
county indicated ratio established in RCW 84.48.075.
(c) The "((ten percent)) levy
rate" of a district shall mean:
(i) ((Ten percent of)) The
district's levy base as defined in RCW 84.52.0531(4), plus one-half of any
amount computed under RCW 84.52.0531(3)(b) in the case of nonhigh school
districts; divided by
(ii) The district's assessed valuation for excess levy purposes for the prior tax collection year as adjusted to one hundred percent by the county indicated ratio.
(d) "Eligible districts" shall mean
those districts with a ((ten percent)) levy rate which exceeds the
state-wide average ((ten percent)) levy rate.
(3) Allocation of state matching funds to eligible districts for local effort assistance shall be determined as follows:
(a) Funds raised by the district through
maintenance and operation levies during that tax collection year shall be
matched with state funds using the following ratio of state funds to levy
funds: (i) The difference between the district's ((ten percent)) levy
rate and the state-wide average ((ten percent)) levy rate; to (ii) the
state-wide average ((ten percent)) levy rate.
(b) ((The maximum amount of state matching
funds for which a district may be eligible in any tax collection year shall be
ten percent of the district's levy base as defined in RCW 84.52.0531(4),
multiplied by the following percentage: (i) The difference between the
district's ten percent levy rate and the state-wide average ten percent levy
rate; divided by (ii) the district's ten percent levy rate.
(4)(a) Through tax collection year 1992,
fifty-five percent of local effort assistance funds shall be distributed to
qualifying districts during the applicable tax collection year on or before
June 30 and forty-five percent shall be distributed on or before December 31 of
any year.
(b)))
In tax collection year 1993 and thereafter, local effort assistance funds shall
be distributed to qualifying districts as follows:
(i) Thirty percent in April;
(ii) Twenty-three percent in May;
(iii) Two percent in June;
(iv) ((Twenty-six)) Seventeen percent
in August;
(v) Nine percent in October;
(((v))) (vi) Seventeen percent in
November; and
(((vi))) (vii) Two percent in
December.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. RCW 84.52.0531 and 1992 c 49 s 1, 1990 c 33 s 601, 1989 c 141 s 1, 1988 c 252 s 1, 1987 1st ex.s. c 2 s 101, 1987 c 185 s 40, & 1985 c 374 s 1 are each repealed.
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