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Senate Amendment 5242

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PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend House File 334, as amended, passed, and
  1  2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  By striking everything after the enacting
  1  4 clause and inserting the following:
  1  5    "Section 1.  Section 257.18, subsection 1, Code
  1  6 Supplement 1995, is amended to read as follows:
  1  7    1.  An instructional support program that provides
  1  8 additional funding for school districts is
  1  9 established.  A board of directors that wishes to
  1 10 consider participating in the instructional support
  1 11 program shall hold a public hearing on the question of
  1 12 participation.  The board shall set forth its
  1 13 proposal, including the method that will be used to
  1 14 fund the program, in a resolution and shall publish
  1 15 the notice of the time and place of a public hearing
  1 16 on the resolution.  Notice of the time and place of
  1 17 the public hearing shall be published in one or more
  1 18 newspapers not less than ten nor more than twenty days
  1 19 before the public hearing.  For the purpose of
  1 20 establishing and giving assured circulation to the
  1 21 proceedings, only in a newspaper which is a newspaper
  1 22 of general circulation issued at a regular frequency,
  1 23 distributed in the school district's area, and
  1 24 regularly delivered or mailed through the post office
  1 25 during the preceding two years may be used for the
  1 26 publication in the school district.  In addition, the
  1 27 newspaper must have a list of subscribers who have
  1 28 paid, or promised to pay, at more than a nominal rate,
  1 29 for copies to be received during a stated period.  At
  1 30 the hearing, the board shall announce a date certain,
  1 31 or no later than thirty days after the date of the
  1 32 hearing, that it will the board shall take action to
  1 33 adopt a resolution to participate in the instructional
  1 34 support program for a period not exceeding five years
  1 35 or to direct the county commissioner of elections to
  1 36 call an a special election to submit the question of
  1 37 participation in the program for a period not
  1 38 exceeding ten years to the registered voters of the
  1 39 school district or to submit the question at the next
  1 40 following regular school election in the base year or
  1 41 a special election held not later than December 1 of
  1 42 the base year.  If the board calls submits the
  1 43 question at an election on the question of
  1 44 participation, if a majority of those voting on the
  1 45 question favors participation in the program, the
  1 46 board shall adopt a resolution to participate and
  1 47 certify the results of the election to the department
  1 48 of management.
  1 49    Sec. 2.  Section 257.18, subsection 2, unnumbered
  1 50 paragraph 1, Code Supplement 1995, is amended to read
  2  1 as follows:
  2  2    If the board does not provide for an election and
  2  3 adopts a resolution to participate in the
  2  4 instructional support program, the district shall
  2  5 participate in the instructional support program
  2  6 unless within twenty-eight days following the action
  2  7 of the board, the secretary of the board receives a
  2  8 petition containing the required number of signatures,
  2  9 asking that an election be called to approve or
  2 10 disapprove the action of the board in adopting the
  2 11 instructional support program.  The petition must be
  2 12 signed by eligible electors equal in number to not
  2 13 less than one hundred or thirty percent of the number
  2 14 of voters at the last preceding regular school
  2 15 election, whichever is greater.  The board shall
  2 16 either rescind its action or direct the county
  2 17 commissioner of elections to submit the question to
  2 18 the registered voters of the school district at the
  2 19 next following regular school election or a special
  2 20 election held not later than December 1 of the base
  2 21 year.  If a majority of those voting on the question
  2 22 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
  2 25 voting on the question favors approval of the action,
  2 26 the board shall certify the results of the election to
  2 27 the department of management and the district shall
  2 28 participate in the program." 
  2 29 
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  2 31                              
  2 32 TOM FLYNN
  2 33 HF 334.701 76
  2 34 kh/sc
     

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