This bill reenacts and amends state law governing local effort assistance for school district enrichment levies (RCW 28A.500.015) to continue that funding beginning in calendar year 2020 and each year thereafter. It sets formulas for annual local effort assistance tied to a district’s actual enrichment levy rate relative to $1.50 per $1,000 assessed value, adds a specific per-student calculation for state-tribal education compact schools beginning in 2022, and states the assistance is not part of the state basic education program. The bill also changes the statutory definition of student enrollment for those funding calculations by reducing average annual FTE enrollment by the FTE for students in remote or online alternative learning experience (ALE) programs that do not meet the bill’s funding restoration requirements. The bill creates a new procedural mechanism in chapter 28A.232 RCW allowing a school district to petition the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) for per-student restoration of funding under specified circumstances. Restoration eligibility requires that the student reside in the petitioning district and provide a written certification from a defined health care practitioner (licensed under specified chapters) that the student cannot attend courses in a school building because of immunosuppression, severe and chronic illness, severe injury, or severe bullying resulting in a documented medical condition. The Superintendent is authorized to adopt rules to implement this restoration process. The bill also amends statutory definitions in RCW 28A.250.010 and RCW 28A.232.010 to define terms such as multidistrict online provider, online course, online school program, online provider, and specific ALE course types and related terms. The bill imposes operational and compliance rules for ALE programs: school districts offering ALE courses may not provide compensation, reimbursement, gifts, rewards, or gratuities to parents, guardians, or students for participation and employees may not receive incentives to increase out‑of‑district ALE enrollment. Districts may purchase nonconsumable instructional materials consistent with approved curriculum and may contract with certificated employees or OSPI‑approved online providers, but purchases or contracts for instructional or cocurricular experiences must be substantially similar to those available in the regular program or be reported annually to OSPI. Districts must report ALE course types, student participation counts, and student residence to OSPI and must assess student progress at least annually. The Superintendent must adopt provider approval criteria, may monitor and rescind approvals, and may not approve private or for‑profit online providers (existing private/for‑profit approvals must be rescinded by August 1, 2026). Some statutory text and implementation details are not included in the extracted facts (including the remainder of RCW 28A.232.010, the text amending RCW 28A.250.020, and full procedures or timelines for OSPI’s restoration decisions).

If enacted, districts that qualify will continue to receive state supplements that top up what local enrichment levies raise, but how much they get will now be tied to each district’s actual levy rate and an inflation‑adjusted per‑student threshold. Districts will see their counted enrollment reduced for any students in remote or online alternative learning programs that do not meet the bill’s restoration criteria, which can lower the supplemental payment unless the district successfully petitions OSPI to restore per‑student funding for individual students who cannot attend in person because of certified medical conditions or severe bullying. Families with medically vulnerable students may enable districts to keep funding for those students only if a licensed practitioner signs the required certification; the exact petition process and timing for those restorations are not detailed in the provided text. School districts take on clearer new duties and constraints: they must stop offering payments or incentives to parents, students, or employees to recruit out‑of‑district ALE enrollments, follow stricter purchasing rules for materials and experiences (including annual reporting to OSPI when districts pay for certain ALE services), track and report ALE participation and student residence, and monitor contracted providers. OSPI gains new rulemaking, approval, and oversight responsibilities for online providers and must remove private, for‑profit online providers by August 1, 2026; this shifts compliance and oversight costs and some program risk onto districts and OSPI, while public and nonprofit online providers face tighter accreditation and approval requirements. Some important implementation details—such as specific petition deadlines, precise restoration calculations, and the rest of the amended statutory language—are not included here.