Rep. Donna Pence, D-Gooding, asked Jason Hancock about the "Three Pillars Financial Table" distributed by the superintendent's office that shows how school funding would fare. "This basically is saying that if we accept this we are getting underfunded by that $10 mil dollars," she said. "Is there any change in the new one, or are we still going to have this discrepancy?" It's the same funding discrepancy Senate Finance Chairman Dean Cameron, R-Rupert, highlighted during his debate on SB 1184 in the Senate, saying the plan calls for forced consolidation of school districts in seven counties  to save that amount of money, though that's not specifically mentioned in SB 1184.

Hancock replied, "It's true that if all three of these bills pass, and two of the three already have, that ... if we wanted to keep everything else that's funded within public schools the same, and you also had these various requirements, the Legislature would have to come up with $10 million more for public schools in FY '13. But, as we've seen in the past, when the Legislature is short money, then they can make adjustments and they do. All of these formulas could be adjusted by a future Legislature as needed to make that fit." He added, "If that $10 million is a concern, non-passage of 1184 should be a greater concern than that."

Pence responded, "I have two counties" that are among the seven classified as "least efficient" and suitable for forced school district consolidation. "I find it kind of ironic that this $10,740,000 is the amount they would be getting from that. ... It's problematic for some of my counties."