Rhode Island bill revises education-aid formula to add a 25% multiplier for multilingual learners

Original title: AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION -- THE EDUCATION EQUITY AND PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACT (Revises the calculation for the student success factor in the education-aid formula by adding an additional multiplier for twenty-five percent (25%) for each resident child who is identified as a multilingual learner.)

Last action · May 19, 2026: Committee recommended measure be held for further studySponsors: Leo Felix and 9 others

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What This Bill Proposed

Rhode Island House Bill 8270 revises the calculation for the in the state's by adding a 25% multiplier for each resident child identified as a multilingual learner.

Why it matters

Changes how state education aid is distributed to local school districts based on student demographics, directly altering funding allocations for districts serving multilingual children.

Who It Would Have Affected

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Directly affected

multilingual learners

Their status is used to add a 25% multiplier to the calculation of the student success factor in the state education-aid formula.

Directly affected

school districts

Their state education-aid funding calculations are altered by the inclusion of the new multiplier for multilingual learners.

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What does House Bill 8270 change?

It revises the calculation for the in the by adding an additional 25% multiplier for each resident child identified as a multilingual learner.

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Where This Stands

This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.

Procedural history

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May 19, 2026
Committee recommended measure be held for further study
May 15, 2026
Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/19/2026)
Mar 11, 2026Introduced
Introduced, referred to House Finance

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