HF 2197 (LSB 5703YH (3) 86)

HOUSE FILE 2197

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 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 1, Code 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  State percent of growth.  The state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2013, is two percent. The state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2014, is four percent. The state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2015, is one and twenty-five hundredths percent.  The state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2017, is four percent. The state percent of growth for each subsequent 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 state percent of growth for a budget year shall be the only subject matter of the bill which enacts the state percent of growth for a budget year.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   The state percent of growth is used by the department of management to calculate regular program supplemental state aid for a budget year by multiplying the state percent of growth for the budget year by the regular program state cost per pupil for the base year.
   This bill establishes a state percent of growth of 4 percent for the school budget year beginning July 1, 2017.