HB0021

Modifies the education resource block grant model to change how maintenance worker positions are calculated in school districts by eliminating operating expenditures as a factor and replacing it with a three-factor average method.

• Eliminates operating expenditures as a factor in computing maintenance worker base full-time equivalent positions in the routine maintenance and operations component of the education resource block grant model, effective for school year 2025-2026 and thereafter. (Sec. 1(a), W.S. 21-13-101(a)(xiv), W.S. 21-13-101(a)(xvii))
• Establishes a new calculation method for maintenance worker resources using the average of three factors: 1.1 maintenance workers per school building, 1.2 multiplied by gross square footage divided by 60,000, and 1.3 multiplied by average daily membership divided by 1,000. (Sec. 1(b))
• Appropriates two million dollars from the public school foundation program account to the department of education for routine maintenance payments to school districts to offset the impact of the changes, for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. (Sec. 2)

Effective: July 1, 2025

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