BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

HB 2116: School enrichment funding

Updating school enrichment funding.

Summary

Increases the maximum tax rate used to calculate enrichment levy authority for school districts from $2.50 to $3.00 per $1,000 of assessed value beginning in calendar year (CY) 2030.
Increases the state Local Effort Assistance (LEA) threshold to $2,600 per pupil in CY 2028.
Switches the inflation factor applied to the LEA threshold from the Implicit Price Deflator to the Seattle Consumer Price Index.
Increases the LEA threshold above inflation by $520 per pupil in CY 2030 and 2031.
Changes the tax rate used to calculate LEA from $1.50 to $2.00 per $1,000 AV beginning in CY 2030.
Caps LEA at the amount needed to bring combined maximum enrichment funding (including LEA and enrichment levies) to $5,035 per pupil beginning CY 2031.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to school enrichment funding;

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

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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HB 2116 (2019–20) Institutional education · Enacted · Chapter 226, Laws of 2020
HB 2116 (2017–18) Advisory committee on aging · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 2116 (2015–16) Motor vehicle crimes · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 2116 (2013–14) Contr'd substance possession · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 2116 (2011–12) Workers' compensation audit · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 2116 (2009–10) Water pollution control · Did not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate