2022 Senate Bill 832

Appropriations: K-12 School Aid budget

Introduced in the Senate

Jan. 20, 2022

Introduced by Sen. Wayne Schmidt (R-37)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for a Fiscal Year 2022-23 K-12 School Aid budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 28, 2022

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

May 4, 2022

Amendment offered

To give an extra $70 million to certain school districts to spend on a manner intended to address "learning loss" from schools closing classrooms for extended period during the coronavirus epidemic.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Sen. Rosemary Bayer (D-12)

To let a school district that in the 2021-22 school year has less than 60% attendance to still get full state funding for that day. Under current law districts pay a daily funding penalty if attendance is less than 75%.

The amendment failed 13 to 22 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Curtis Hertel (D-23)

To revise funding details related to attendance levels in certain employment preparation programs for students with disabilities.

The amendment failed 13 to 22 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Jeff Irwin (D-18)

To increase the state foundation allowance from $9,150 per pupil to $9,700.

The amendment failed 13 to 22 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Jeff Irwin (D-18)

To increase the state foundation allowance from $9,150 per pupil to $9,190 for students in conventional school district schools, but cut it to $6,433 to students enrolled a "cyber school".

The amendment failed 13 to 22 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Sylvia Santana (D-3)

To increase proposed spending on special education from $90.2 million to $240.2 million.

The amendment failed 13 to 22 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Winnie Brinks (D-29)

To increase proposed spending on public school preschool programs from $418.1 million to $451.1 million; add another $30 million for "start up grants," and increase spending in a number of other related line items.

The amendment failed 13 to 22 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Winnie Brinks (D-29)

To spend up to $100 million for subsidies students in teachers colleges and related programs.

The amendment failed 13 to 22 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Rosemary Bayer (D-12)

To increase from $512.5 million to $746.5 million the amount of proposed extra spending allocated to public schools based on the number of low-income students eligible for federal lunch subsidies.

The amendment failed 13 to 22 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Betty Alexander (D-5)

To appropriate and give public school districts up to $1 billion to spend on "infrastructure".

The amendment failed 13 to 22 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Rosemary Bayer (D-12)

To give an extra $6 million to a school district (Oxford) that was the scene of a fatal shooting in 2021.

The amendment passed 35 to 0 (details)

Passed in the Senate 20 to 15 (details)

To appropriate $17.84 billion for K-12 public schools in the 2022-23 fiscal year, of which $2.191 billion is federal money. The budget would raise the per-pupil state target "foundation allowance" by 5% to $9,150.

Received in the House

May 5, 2022

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 18, 2022

Substitute offered by Rep. Thomas Albert (R-86)

To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations except $100 “placeholders.” This is part of a process for reconciling the House and Senate-passed department budgets for the next fiscal year.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 58 to 48 (details)

Received in the Senate

May 19, 2022

Failed in the Senate 0 to 35 (details)

To concur with the House-passed version of the bill.

Received in the House

May 24, 2022