Addressing school district accounting, budgeting, and reporting requirements.

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SENATE BILL 6326

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2026 Regular Session

By Senators Nobles, Wellman, Conway, Cortes, Lovick, Robinson, Valdez, and C. Wilson; by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Read first time 01/28/26. Referred to Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education.

AN ACT Relating to school district accounting, budgeting, and reporting requirements; and adding new sections to chapter 28A.505 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 28A.505 RCW to read as follows:

(1) By the 2030-31 school year and each fiscal year thereafter, each school district board of directors shall include a restriction for minimum fund balance within their general fund. This minimum fund balance restriction must be in addition to other fund balance amounts restricted to specific purposes externally imposed by creditors, grantors, contributors, or law or regulations of other governments, or other restrictions imposed by enabling legislation.