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WashingtonSB 60652025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET

Concerning school district transportation vehicle funds.

Sponsored By: Perry Dozier (Republican)

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

School bus fund can pay for electrification

Districts can use the transportation vehicle fund to plan a switch from gas or diesel buses to electric or zero-emission buses. The fund can pay to buy, install, and repair charging or other zero-emission fueling stations, including installation costs. Districts can also convert or repower current buses to electric or zero-emission. This uses existing fund dollars.

Short-term loans for struggling school districts

Districts in binding conditions or under enhanced financial oversight can take a short-term interfund loan. They may borrow from the capital projects fund or the transportation vehicle fund. The district must repay the full amount within one calendar year, and the lending fund cannot charge interest. Loans cannot harm the lending fund’s planned projects, and all balances must appear in the district’s monthly financial reports. The board must pass a resolution naming the amount, funds, repayment source, and schedule; if under enhanced oversight, a special administrator must also approve.

Tight rules for moving bus fund money

A district under enhanced financial oversight can ask the superintendent to move money from the transportation vehicle fund to another fund. The district may ask to convert a past temporary loan from the bus fund into a permanent transfer with no repayment. The superintendent may approve only if the transfer does not harm the fund’s projects or purpose. The state sets rules for how districts use the bus fund and loans, and those rules do not allow transfers or temporary loans except as the law permits.

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Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Perry Dozier

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Adrian Cortes

    Democratic • Senate

  • Jeff Wilson

    Republican • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 195 • No: 0

Senate vote • 3/10/2026

Final Passage as Amended by the House

Yes: 49 • No: 0

House vote • 3/4/2026

Final Passage as Amended by the House

Yes: 97 • No: 0 • Other: 1

Senate vote • 2/11/2026

3rd Reading & Final Passage

Yes: 49 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Effective date 6/11/2026.

    3/24/2026Senate

  2. Chapter 182, 2026 Laws.

    3/24/2026Senate

  3. Governor signed.

    3/24/2026legislature

  4. Delivered to Governor.

    3/12/2026legislature

  5. Speaker signed.

    3/11/2026legislature

  6. President signed.

    3/11/2026legislature

  7. Passed final passage; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0.

    3/10/2026Senate

  8. Senate concurred in House amendments.

    3/10/2026House

  9. Third reading, passed; yeas, 97; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 1.

    3/4/2026Senate

  10. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    3/4/2026Senate

  11. Committee amendment(s) adopted with no other amendments.

    3/4/2026Senate

  12. Rules Committee relieved of further consideration. Placed on second reading.

    3/3/2026Senate

  13. Referred to Rules 2 Review.

    3/2/2026Senate

  14. APP - Majority; do pass with amendment(s).

    2/27/2026Senate

  15. APP - Executive action taken by committee.

    2/27/2026Senate

  16. First reading, referred to Appropriations.

    2/14/2026Senate

  17. Third reading, passed; yeas, 49; nays, 0; absent, 0; excused, 0.

    2/11/2026Senate

  18. Rules suspended. Placed on Third Reading.

    2/11/2026Senate

  19. Placed on second reading consent calendar.

    2/6/2026Senate

  20. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.

    2/4/2026Senate

  21. EDU - Majority; do pass.

    2/3/2026Senate

  22. First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education.

    1/12/2026Senate

  23. Prefiled for introduction.

    1/9/2026Senate

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