House2023-24 sessionFiscal note
ESHB 2494: Increasing state funding for operating costs in schools.
Signed into law: Chapter 262, Laws of 2024
- Sponsor
- Bergquist
- Introduced
- February 5, 2024
- Status
- C 262 L 24
- Last action
- Effective date 6/6/2024. (March 26, 2024)
- As of
- August 18, 2026, 2:02 AM Pacific, from the Legislature’s records
What this bill does
Updates and increases per pupil amounts for materials, supplies, and operating costs in state prototypical school funding formulas.
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Floor votes
- House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 13, 202480 yea · 17 nay · 1 not voting
- House: Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · March 5, 202493 yea · 0 nay · 4 not voting
- Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate · March 1, 202448 yea · 1 nay
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