HF 2196 (LSB 5717YH (4) 86)

HOUSE FILE 2196

BY  RUFF, WINCKLER, LENSING, STUTSMAN, ISENHART, FORBES, BROWN-POWERS, KRESSIG, DUNKEL, DAWSON, KELLEY, WESSEL-KROESCHELL, THEDE, H. MILLER, MASCHER, HUNTER, BEARINGER, KEARNS, ANDERSON, OURTH, PRICHARD, SMITH, HALL, ABDUL-SAMAD, OLDSON, T. TAYLOR, GASKILL, STECKMAN, LYKAM, HANSON, McCONKEY, STAED, GAINES, JACOBY, FINKENAUER, COHOON, OLSON, WOLFE, BENNETT, RUNNING-MARQUARDT, MEYER, and HEDDENS

A BILL FOR

An Act establishing the categorical state percent of growth for the school budget year beginning July 1, 2017.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 257.8, subsection 2, Code 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  Categorical state percent of growth.  The categorical state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2013, is two percent. The categorical state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2014, is four percent. The categorical state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2015, is one and twenty-five hundredths percent.  The categorical state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2017, is four percent. The categorical state percent of growth for each budget year shall be established by statute which shall be enacted within thirty days of the submission in the year preceding the base year of the governor’s budget under section 8.21. The establishment of the categorical state percent of growth for a budget year shall be the only subject matter of the bill which enacts the categorical state percent of growth for a budget year. The categorical state percent of growth may include state percents of growth for the teacher salary supplement, the professional development supplement, the early intervention supplement, and the teacher leadership supplement.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   The categorical state percent of growth is used by the department of management to calculate the per pupil amounts for each of the categorical funding supplements authorized by law.
   This bill establishes a categorical state percent of growth of 4 percent for the school budget year beginning July 1, 2017.