Determining state allocations for school staff salaries.

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SENATE BILL 5517

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By Senators Cortes, Alvarado, Nobles, Saldaña, and C. Wilson; by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Read first time 01/27/25. Referred to Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education.

AN ACT Relating to determining state allocations for school staff salaries; and amending RCW 28A.150.410 .

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1. RCW 28A.150.410 and 2022 c 109 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) (( Through the 2017-18 school year, the legislature shall establish for each school year in the appropriations act a statewide salary allocation schedule, for allocation purposes only, to be used to distribute funds for basic education certificated instructional staff salaries under RCW 28A.150.260 . For the purposes of this section, the staff allocations for classroom teachers, teacher-librarians, counselors, and student health services staff under RCW 28A.150.260 are considered allocations for certificated instructional staff.