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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 257.18, subsection 1, Code Supplement
  1  2 1995, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    1.  An instructional support program that provides
  1  4 additional funding for school districts is established.  A
  1  5 board of directors that wishes to consider participating in
  1  6 the instructional support program shall hold a public hearing
  1  7 on the question of participation.  The board shall set forth
  1  8 its proposal, including the method that will be used to fund
  1  9 the program, in a resolution and shall publish the notice of
  1 10 the time and place of a public hearing on the resolution.
  1 11 Notice of the time and place of the public hearing shall be
  1 12 published in one or more newspapers not less than ten nor more
  1 13 than twenty days before the public hearing.  For the purpose
  1 14 of establishing and giving assured circulation to the
  1 15 proceedings, only in a newspaper which is a newspaper of
  1 16 general circulation issued at a regular frequency, distributed
  1 17 in the school district's area, and regularly delivered or
  1 18 mailed through the post office during the preceding two years
  1 19 may be used for the publication in the school district.  In
  1 20 addition, the newspaper must have a list of subscribers who
  1 21 have paid, or promised to pay, at more than a nominal rate,
  1 22 for copies to be received during a stated period.  At the
  1 23 hearing, the board shall announce a date certain, or no later
  1 24 than thirty days after the date of the hearing, that it will
  1 25 the board shall take action to adopt a resolution to
  1 26 participate in the instructional support program for a period
  1 27 not exceeding five years or to direct the county commissioner
  1 28 of elections to call an election to submit the question of
  1 29 participation in the program for a period not exceeding ten
  1 30 years to the registered voters of the school district at the
  1 31 next following regular school election in the base year or at
  1 32 a special election held not later than December 1 of the base
  1 33 year.  If the board calls submits the question at an election
  1 34 on the question of participation, if and a majority of those
  1 35 voting on the question favors participation in the program,
  2  1 the board shall adopt a resolution to participate and certify
  2  2 the results of the election to the department of management.
  2  3    Sec. 2.  Section 257.18, subsection 2, unnumbered paragraph
  2  4 1, Code Supplement 1995, is amended to read as follows:
  2  5    If the board does not provide for an election and adopts a
  2  6 resolution to participate in the instructional support
  2  7 program, the district shall participate in the instructional
  2  8 support program unless within twenty-eight days following the
  2  9 action of the board, the secretary of the board receives a
  2 10 petition containing the required number of signatures, asking
  2 11 that an election be called to approve or disapprove the action
  2 12 of the board in adopting the instructional support program.
  2 13 The petition must be signed by eligible electors equal in
  2 14 number to not less than one hundred or thirty percent of the
  2 15 number of voters at the last preceding regular school
  2 16 election, whichever is greater.  The board shall either
  2 17 rescind its action or direct the county commissioner of
  2 18 elections to submit the question to the registered voters of
  2 19 the school district at the next following regular school
  2 20 election or a special election held not later than December 1
  2 21 of the base year.  If a majority of those voting on the
  2 22 question at the election favors disapproval of the action of
  2 23 the board, the district shall not participate in the
  2 24 instructional support program.  If a majority of those voting
  2 25 on the question favors approval of the action, the board shall
  2 26 certify the results of the election to the department of
  2 27 management and the district shall participate in the program.  
  2 28 HF 334
  2 29 kh/pk/25
     
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