Adds to existing law to provide that enrollment shall replace average daily attendance in funding formulas for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 and to provide for a study committee on the public school funding formula.

Thecurrent"FoundationProgram–StateAid–Apportionment"foundinChapter10ofTitle33IdahoCodewas first established in 1980. At that time, the student counts were used to determine Education Support Units. The counts were done by seat time, also referred to as Average Daily Attendance (ADA). In 2016, HCR 33 created an Interim Legislative Committee to study the funding formula within this chapter. The Interim Committee was reauthorized in 2017 and 2018. While the interim committee recommendation to move to a student-based formula was not implemented in 2019, there was strong consensus that the state should move from the current ADA student count to an enrollment-based formula. During the 2019 Session, H 293 was signed into law to require schools to track both ADA and enrollment. This was done to provide a better understanding of the fiscal impact of a singular change to the funding formula. H 293 also mandated a review of the funding formula by July 1, 2024 For the past two school pandemic impacted school years, the State Board of Education has passed temporary rules to use the enrollment counts, rather than the ADA. Schools are well prepared to make a change to enrollment as they have been providing both counts since the Fiscal School year 2020.This bill codifies what has been a temporary rule, with a sunset on July 1, 2025. With the requirement of a review of the funding formula this bill authorizes the legislative council to appoint an interim committee to meet the requirement under Idaho Code 33-1026. An emergency clause to put this change into law upon passage and approval will replace the existing administrative temporary rule, while authorizing the State Board to promulgate rules similar to those that were in place for the past two school years.