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HB0021 • 2025

School finance-routine maintenance worker calculation.

AN ACT relating to K-12 school finance; eliminating operating expenditures as a factor in the computation of maintenance workers in the routine maintenance and operations component of the education resource block grant model; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

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Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor
Sel Sch Fac
Last action
2025-03-03
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The bill's status is marked as inactive, which means it did not pass in its current session.

School Finance Act: Routine Maintenance Worker Calculation

The bill removes operating expenditures as a factor in calculating maintenance workers for school buildings and provides funding for routine maintenance payments.

What This Bill Does

  • Removes operating costs from the calculation of how many maintenance workers are needed for schools.
  • Provides $2 million in funding for school districts to cover increased maintenance costs due to these changes.

Who It Names or Affects

  • School districts that receive education resource block grants.

Terms To Know

Education Resource Block Grant Model
A system used to distribute state funding to K-12 public schools based on various factors including student needs and school district costs.
Operating Expenditures
Money spent by a business or organization for regular day-to-day activities, such as paying staff salaries and buying supplies.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify how the new maintenance worker calculation will affect individual school districts.
  • It is unclear if there are any long-term financial impacts on schools beyond the initial $2 million funding period.

Bill History

  1. 2025-03-03 House

    H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4

  2. 2025-02-10 House

    H No report prior to CoW Cutoff

  3. 2025-02-10 House

    H02 - Appropriations:Do Pass Failed 3-3-1-0-0

  4. 2025-01-27 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H02 - Appropriations

  5. 2025-01-02 House

    H Received for Introduction

  6. 2024-12-06 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0154
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0154
Introduced
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0021

School finance-routine maintenance worker calculation.

Sponsored by: Select Committee on School Facilities

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to K-12 school finance; eliminating operating expenditures as a factor in the computation of maintenance workers in the routine maintenance and operations component of the education resource block grant model; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
.

(a)

For school year 2025-2026 and each school year thereafter, the education resource block grant model, as defined in W.S. 21-13-101(a)(xiv), shall not include a factor for a school district's operating expenditures when computing the maintenance worker base full-time equivalent position resources through the routine maintenance and operations component as contained in paragraph (b)(xxxiii) of "Attachment A" as referenced in W.S. 21-13-101(a)(xvii). Except as specifically provided under subsection (b) of this section, for school year 2025-2026 and each school year thereafter, the maintenance worker resources provided through the routine maintenance and operations component within the education resource block grant model shall be computed in the same manner as school year 2024-2025.

(b)

For school year 2025-2026 and each school year thereafter, the education resource block grant model's maintenance worker base full-time equivalent position resources contained within the routine maintenance and operations component shall be calculated using the average of the following three (3) factors:

(i)

One and one
‑
tenth (1.1) maintenance workers per school building;

(ii)

One (1) maintenance worker multiplied by the total of the allowable gross square footage of education space for the school building in accordance with W.S. 21
‑
13
‑
309(m)(v)(G)(II) divided by sixty thousand (60,000), then multiplied by a factor of one and two-tenths (1.2);

(iii)

One (1) maintenance worker multiplied by the total average daily membership for the school building divided by one thousand (1,000), then multiplied by a factor of one and three
‑
tenths (1.3). "Average daily membership" means as defined by W.S. 21-13-101(a)(i).

Section 2
.

There is appropriated two million dollars ($2,000,000.00) from the public school foundation program account to the department of education-school finance for routine maintenance payments to school districts made necessary by the amendments enacted in section 1 of this act. This appropriation shall be for the period beginning July 1, 2025 and ending June 30, 2026. This appropriation shall not be transferred or expended for any other purpose and any unexpended, unobligated funds remaining from this appropriation shall revert as provided by law on June 30, 2026. It is the intent of the legislature that this appropriation be included in the standard budget for the department of education-school finance for the immediately succeeding fiscal biennium.

Section 3.

This act is effective July 1, 2025
.

(END)

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