Senate Bill 5352 reenacts and amends the basic education funding formula (RCW 28A.150.260) and makes multiple changes to school meal, nutrition program, and related funding statutes. Beginning with the 2026-27 school year, each district must provide breakfast and lunch at no charge on each school day to any student who requests them (with an exception to allow schools in an uncompleted USDA community eligibility provision (CEP) four‑year cycle to finish that cycle). The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) must reimburse districts on a per‑meal basis for meals not reimbursed at the USDA free rate; the bill text describing the exact state reimbursement calculation is truncated in the provided extracts. The bill also requires continuing monthly direct certification, annual monitoring and application for CEP where eligible, implementation of summer food service programs for qualifying schools (with an OSPI exemption process for adequate alternative programs), and strict prohibitions on denying or conditioning meals based on meal debt. The act substantially revises the distribution formula and specified allocations for basic education funding and related programs. It reenacts detailed prototypical school staffing and nonstaff allocations, specifies minimum class size standards (K–3 = 17.00; grade 4 = 27.00; grades 5–6 = 27.00; grades 7–8 = 28.53; grades 9–12 = 28.74), defines prototypical school sizes, and sets a laboratory science course factor and class size. The bill lists minimum per‑student materials/supplies/operating amounts for grades 9–12 (Technology $44.05; Curriculum/textbooks $48.06; Other supplies $94.07; Library materials $6.05; Instructional professional development $8.01) and directs those amounts be adjusted for inflation in the omnibus appropriations act. It prescribes allocations for the Learning Assistance Program (including special high‑poverty school allocations), transitional bilingual instruction, highly capable programs, and career and technical education courses with specified hours/week, class sizes, and enhancement rules for students with disabilities. The funding distribution formula must be reviewed biennially by the governor and superintendent, and the Office of Financial Management must monthly review reported FTE counts; OSPI must post per‑pupil allocation reports and districts must link to them. The bill creates procedural and data provisions: OSPI must develop and operate an electronic repository of household income information to support enrollment and nutrition program administration, with technical safeguards, multi‑language access, limits on disclosure, and an annual report to the legislature (reporting or a development plan was required beginning December 1, 2022). The act amends and repeals multiple RCWs (including repeal of RCW 28A.235.260 effective September 1, 2026), expands eligibility for additional NBPTS certificated staff bonuses in certain high‑poverty contexts and for specific 2024-25 through 2029-30 conditions, and conditions the act’s validity on specific funding being provided in the omnibus appropriations act by June 30, 2025. Several provided extracts are incomplete or truncated: the full text of some amended sections and new sections is missing, the complete state per‑meal reimbursement formula is not present, the full lists of per‑student allocations and some referenced subsections are cut off, and the bill’s overall effective date beyond the cited repeal date is not shown.

If enacted, the bill would require every Washington school district, beginning in the 2026–27 school year, to provide breakfast and lunch at no charge to any student who requests them (with limited exceptions such as schools mid-cycle in the USDA community eligibility provision or schools that provide meals through a local arrangement). Districts must continue monthly direct certification, monitor and apply for community eligibility, and run summer food service programs where half or more of enrolled children qualify for free or reduced-price meals unless OSPI approves an exemption. The state directs OSPI to build and run a secure, multilingual electronic repository of household income information to simplify eligibility and maximize direct certification, and to report annually to the Legislature; OSPI also must post per‑pupil allocations and adopt rules to ensure certain new staffing funds are used to add staff, prevent layoffs, or raise paraeducator and support staff pay. The state will reimburse districts for meals not covered at the USDA free rate by paying the difference between USDA free and paid rates plus $0.05 per meal (or a higher amount if the omnibus appropriations act authorizes it), and other funding and program allocations in the basic education formula are adjusted and tied to prototypical school staffing and per‑student allocations. The most affected parties are school districts (which face increased meal service volume, ongoing application and CEP monitoring duties, summer meal obligations, and new reporting/linking requirements) and OSPI (which must build the income repository, run certification processes, adopt implementation rules, and report to the Legislature). Districts will see more meals served and some additional per‑meal reimbursement, but the text provided does not show full financial detail or whether state reimbursements will fully cover added meal service and administrative costs; the act also is explicitly contingent on the Legislature providing specific funding in the omnibus appropriations act by June 30, 2025, otherwise the law is null and void.