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House Bill No.
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Senate Bill No.
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Name
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Current Status
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Sponsor
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What it Does
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Potential New Revenue (Unknown New Expenditures)
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1198
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5167
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Making 2025-2027 fiscal biennium operating appropriations.
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HApprops
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Ormsby, Gregerson, Macri
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5186
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Concerning local funding for school district facilities.
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SRules 2
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Krishnadasan, Wellman, Orwall, Riccelli, Chapman, Hasegawa, Frame, Hansen, Liias, Saldaña, Cortes, Dhingra, Lovelett, Nobles, Shewmake, Slatter, Stanford, Valdez, Wilson, C.
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Lowers the voter approval threshold from 60 percent to a simple majority of voters for school districts to issue general obligation bonds, levy taxes to make payments on those bonds, and exceed the statutory debt limit. Removes school facilities from the definition of public facilities for which impact fees may be collected and removes all related references
within the impact fee statutes.
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Impact fees could be as much as $400,000 per year in times with increasing enrollment and capacity building.
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5192
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Concerning school district materials, supplies, and operating costs.
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2/27 Executive Session
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Nobles, Wellman, Chapman, Cortes, Dhingra, Hasegawa, Krishnadasan, Pedersen, Slatter, Stanford, Trudeau, Wilson, C.
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Increases general ed MSOC by $87 above maintenance level and HS $16 above ML. Sets MSOC as one amount per student rather than 9 distinct and transparent categories. Requires districts to report spending based on these 9 categories. Allocates MSOC on a fiscal year basis rather than a school year basis. Allocates based on a three-year average student FTE rather than the current year. Defines an inflationary measure as IPD for the previous calendar year.
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$897,000
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5253
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Extending special education services to students with disabilities until the end of the school year in which the student turns 22.
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HEducation
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Pollet, Couture, Taylor, Callan, Simmons, Penner, Wylie, Kloba, Timmons, Bergquist, Salahuddin
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Requires school districts to provide an appropriate education to students with disabilities from age 3 to the end of the school year in which the student turns 22.
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Indeterminate. The district special education enrollment percentage currently exceeds the funded cap.
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5263
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Concerning special education funding.
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2/27 Executive Senate W&W
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Pedersen, Braun, Bateman, Chapman, Conway, Dhingra, Frame, Krishnadasan, Liias, Nobles, Orwall, Salomon, Shewmake, Stanford, Valdez, Wilson, C.
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Remove the cap of 16% for special education funding ($380,000). Remove the tier multiplier system and increase the overall multiplier to 1.32 (current multipliers are 1.12 and 1.06) ($3.6 million). Increase multiplier for 3 to 5-year-olds from 1.2 to 1.32 ($155,000). Allows an OSPI carve-out of .005 for statewide special education activities (-$128,000). Allow costs to qualify for safety net if they exceed statewide average per pupil expenditures by 1.5 times (currently 2.2) (indeterminate).
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$4,007,000
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5358
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Career and Technical Education in sixth-grade.
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SRules 2
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Shavers, Leavitt, Salahuddin, Bergquist, Reed, Paul, Pollet, Simmons, Hill
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Expands CTE courses to 6th grade when 6th grade is offered in middle school. Does not extend funding.
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1338
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School operating costs.
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HRules R
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Berg, Bergquist, Ramel, Stonier, Santos, Tharinger, Taylor, Alvarado, Wylie, Berry, Nance, Ryu, Donaghy, Street, Goodman, Doglio, Mena, Kloba, Pollet, Paul, Walen, Shavers, Duerr, Davis, Salahuddin, Macri, Reed, Callan, Fosse
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Increases general ed MSOC by $16 above maintenance level and HS at ML. CTE MSOC remains at maintenance level. Skills Center MSOC is increased $12. Defines an inflationary measure as IPD for the previous calendar year. Establishes rebasing every four years.
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$170,000
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1356
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Concerning K-12 funding.
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HApprops
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Bergquist, Berg, Ramel, Ormsby, Gregerson, Macri, Obras, Ryu, Berry, Scott, Ortiz-Self, Alvarado, Nance, Pollet, Salahuddin, Hill
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LEVY: $2.4 million in 2025-26 and $5.2 million in 2026-27.
Adds a per pupil enhancement between 2026 to 2030. Provides LEA for charter schools. Enhances LEA limits as well.
STATE PROPERTY TAX: Allows for the state property tax to increase by population change and inflation not to exceed 103%. (currently 101%).
SPECIAL EDUCATION: Remove the cap of 16% for special education funding ($380,000). Requires 30% of general apportionment for students with special education services to be shifted to the special education program, currently about 26% for OSD (indeterminate).
K-12 FUNDING FORMULAE:
Requires a study
SUBSTITUTES ($140,000)
2027-28: Funds 5 days per classroom teacher at $200 per day adjusted for inflation (currently 4 days x classroom teachers x $151.86). Adds classified formula: Funds 2 days per school level classified staff at $150 per day adjusted for inflation.
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$2,800,000
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1357
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Special Education funding and support for inclusionary practices.
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HRules R
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Stonier, Santos, Obras, Timmons, Scott, Ortiz-Self, Nance, Fosse, Salahuddin, Wylie, Macri, Hill
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Increase the tier 1 multiplier to 1.18 and tier 2 multiplier to 1.09(current multipliers are 1.12 and 1.06) ($725,000). Establishes an inclusionary practices grant program. Allows an OSPI carve out of .005 for statewide special education activities (-$128,000)"
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$597,000
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1543
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5514
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Increasing compliance pathways for the clean buildings performance standard with alternative metrics and extensions for reporting.
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HEnv & Energy
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Doglio, Ramel, Berry, Ryu, Reed, Duerr, Parshley, Ormsby
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SJR 8200
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Amending the Constitution to allow 55 percent of voters voting to authorize school district bonds.
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SEL/K-12
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Cortes, Wellman, Dhingra, Shewmake, Riccelli, Bateman, Hasegawa, Lovelett, Conway, Orwall, Pedersen, Salomon, Saldaña, Wilson, C., Chapman, Cleveland, Frame, Krishnadasan, Liias, Nobles, Slatter, Stanford, Valdez
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