SF0034

Amends school finance laws to increase the allowable square footage percentage for routine and major maintenance calculations and increases the major maintenance payment percentage for school districts, with accompanying appropriations.

• Increases the allowable education space capacity from 115% to 135% of standard space levels for inclusion in actual gross square footage computations used to calculate foundation program amounts for routine maintenance. (W.S. 21-13-309(m)(v)(G)(II), Sec. 1)
• Increases the allowable capacity in educational building gross square footage from 115% to 135% of prescribed per student criteria for major building and facility repair and replacement payment computations. (W.S. 21-15-109(c)(iii)(C), Sec. 1)
• Changes the major maintenance payment calculation percentage from 2% to 2% for school year 2025-2026 and thereafter, applied to adjusted square footage of educational buildings. (W.S. 21-15-109(c)(vi), Sec. 1)
• Changes the major maintenance payment calculation percentage from 2% to 2% for school year 2025-2026 and thereafter, applied to specific building categories identified in the statute. (W.S. 21-15-109(c)(vii), Sec. 1)
• Appropriates $38,100,000 from the public school foundation program account to the state construction department for major maintenance payments to school districts resulting from the amendments in this act, for the fiscal year July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. (Sec. 2(a))
• Appropriates $5,500,000 from the public school foundation program account to the department of education-school finance for routine maintenance payments to school districts resulting from the amendments in this act, for the fiscal year July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. (Sec. 2(b))

Effective: July 1, 2025

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