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MONTPELIER â The House Ways & Means Committee has added a two-year pause to the excess spending penalty in the education funding formula as part of changes it made to S. 13, a bill establishing a task force to implement new per-pupil weighting factors.
The amendment, offered by committee vice-chair Rep. Emilie Kornheiser, D-Windham 2-1, was unanimously approved by the panel, as well as its amended version of the bill.
S. 13 had already been through the Education Committee and will next stop briefly at Appropriations before being considered on the House floor.
Also added to the bill by Ways & Means were provisions asking the task force to ârecommend ways to mitigate the impacts on residential property tax rates and consider tax rate equity between districts,â and consider whether to change or repeal the excess spending threshold altogether.
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The finish line for the 2021 legislative session is in sight. So Look Ahead Vermont will take a slightly different approach, looking at the issues rather than the calendar.
Hereâs what remains to be done before the proposed adjournment date of Saturday, May 22. (Yes, that is a Saturday, and yes, I will be working if they are!)
BUDGET: The House and Senate have each passed their versions of a spending plan for fiscal 2022, and done so unanimously.
The next step, Speaker Jill Krowinski confirmed, is review of the Senate budget by the House Appropriations Committee.
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The finish line for the 2021 legislative session is in sight. So Look Ahead Vermont will take a slightly different approach, looking at the issues rather than the calendar.
Hereâs what remains to be done before the proposed adjournment date of Saturday, May 22. (Yes, that is a Saturday, and yes, I will be working if they are!)
BUDGET: The House and Senate have each passed their versions of a spending plan for fiscal 2022, and done so unanimously.
The next step, Speaker Jill Krowinski confirmed, is review of the Senate budget by the House Appropriations Committee.
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MONTPELIER â The House version of a bill establishing a task force to implement new per-pupil weighting factors to be used in the stateâs public school funding formula passed out of the Education Committee on Thursday morning.
The bill, S. 13, now heads to the Ways & Means Committee for review. Itâs likely to come to the floor next week, as the legislature is seeking to adjourn by May 22.
A side-by-side comparison produced by legislative counsel for the Education Committee shows how the House proposes to amend the Senate version.
Among the proposed changes is a request that an updated, user-friendly simulator be created to showing how districtsâ weighting factors and tax rates would change. Currently, that information is available in a spreadsheet, but uses information from 2018, does not account for several Act 46 district mergers, and is not user-friendly.