2049-S AMH COUT MACK 407

  

SHB 2049 - H AMD TO H AMD (2049-S AMH BERG MACK 402) 1353

By Representative Orcutt

NOT ADOPTED 04/21/2025

On page 1, after line 5 of the amendment, insert the following:

"Beginning on page 2, line 26, after "means the" strike all material through "year." on page 3 line 22 and insert the following:

"((percentage change in the seasonally adjusted consumer price index for all urban consumers, Seattle area, for the most recent 12-month period as of September 25th of the year before the taxes are payable, using the official current base compiled by the United States bureau of labor statistics)) implicit price deflator for the previous calendar year using the official current base, compiled by the bureau of economic analysis, United States department of commerce.

(b) "Maximum per-pupil limit" means:

(i) Two thousand five hundred dollars, as increased by inflation beginning with property taxes levied for collection in 2020, multiplied by the number of average annual full-time equivalent students enrolled in the school district in the prior school year, for school districts with fewer than forty thousand annual full-time equivalent students enrolled in the school district in the prior school year; or

(ii) Three thousand dollars, as increased by inflation beginning with property taxes levied for collection in 2020, multiplied by the number of average annual full-time equivalent students enrolled in the school district in the prior school year, for school districts with forty thousand or more annual full-time equivalent students enrolled in the school district in the prior school year.

(c) "Open for in-person instruction to all students" means that all students in all grades have the option to participate in at least 40 hours of planned in-person instruction per month and the school follows state department of health guidance and recommendations for resuming in-person instruction to the greatest extent practicable."

EFFECT: Removes increases to enrichment levy authority in the underlying bill and changes the inflation factor used for levy calculations from the Seattle Consumer Price Index to the Implicit Price Deflator.

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