HF 2089 (LSB 6065YH (2) 85)

HOUSE FILE 2089

BY  PETTENGILL

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to supplementary weighting for school districts and area education agencies that share operational functions and including effective date provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 257.11, subsection 7, paragraph a, subparagraph (1), Code 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   (1)  In order to provide additional funding to increase student opportunities and redirect more resources to student programming for school districts that share operational functions, a supplementary weighting of two hundredths per pupil shall be assigned to pupils enrolled in a district that shares with a political subdivision one or more operational functions of a curriculum director, school administration manager, social worker, school nurse, school counselor, or school librarian, or one or more operational functions in the areas of superintendent management, business management, human resources, transportation, or operation and maintenance for at least twenty percent of the school year. The additional weighting shall be assigned for each discrete operational function shared. The operational function sharing arrangement does not need to be a newly implemented sharing arrangement to receive supplementary weighting under this subsection. However, to receive supplementary weighting under this subsection for an ongoing operational function sharing arrangement that began before July 1, 2014, the district shall submit information to the department documenting the cost savings directly attributable to the shared operational functions and describe the district’s consideration of additional shared operational functions.
    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   Code section 257.11(7), enacted in 2013 Iowa Acts, chapter 65 (HF 472), established supplementary weighting of 0.02 per pupil for school districts and area education agencies that share with a political subdivision one or more operational functions of a curriculum director, school administration manager, social worker, school nurse, school counselor, or school librarian, or one or more operational functions in the areas of superintendent management, business management, human resources, transportation, or operation and maintenance for at least 20 percent of the school year. Under current law, the additional weighting is assigned for each discrete operational function shared.
   This bill strikes the provision that authorizes the additional weighting for each discrete operational function that is shared by the school district or by the area education agency.
   The bill takes effect upon enactment.