WA People
BILL · 2003–04 SESSION

HB 2247: Edu employees/cost-of-living

Regarding cost-of-living increases for educational employees.

Summary

  • Revises Initiative 732 to clarify the obligation for funding school employees' cost-of-living increases (COLAs): the state will pay for the COLA on the state-funded salary base, and school districts must fund the remainder from local or other resources.
  • Strikes the portion of Initiative 732 that declares the COLA to be part of the state's basic education funding obligation to reflect the state Supreme Court decision in the McGowan case.
  • Reinstates the COLA as part of the state's basic education funding obligation for school employees within the basic education program only, beginning with the 2005-06 school year.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedApr 16, 2003
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Bill Fromhold (D-49)
Introduced
April 16, 2003 in the House
Last action
January 12, 2004

AN ACT Relating to cost-of-living increases for educational employees;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Bill Fromhold (D-49)

3 co-sponsors (3 Democrats, 0 Republicans)

Jim McIntire D-46John Lovick D-44Jim Moeller D-49

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  4. First reading, referred to Appropriations.

HB 2247 in other sessions

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