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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 11.6, subsection 1, paragraph a, 1 2 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 1995, is amended to read as 1 3 follows: 1 4 The financial condition and transactions of all cities and 1 5 city offices, counties, county hospitals organized under 1 6 chapters 347 and 347A, memorial hospitals organized under 1 7 chapter 37, entities organized under chapter 28E having gross 1 8 receipts in excess of one hundred thousand dollars in a fiscal 1 9 year, merged areas, area education agencies, and all school 1 10 offices in school districts, shall be examined at least once 1 11 each year, except that cities having a population of seven 1 12 hundred or more but less than two thousand shall be examined 1 13 at least once every four years, and cities having a population 1 14 of less than seven hundred may be examined as otherwise 1 15 provided in this section. The examination shall cover the 1 16 fiscal year next preceding the year in which the audit is 1 17 conducted. The examination of school offices shall include an 1 18 audit of all school funds, the certified annual financial 1 19 report, and the certified enrollment as provided in section 1 20 257.6.Examinations of community colleges shall include an1 21audit of eligible and noneligible contact hours as defined in1 22section 260D.2. Eligible and noneligible contact hours and1 23any differencesDifferences in certified enrollment shall be 1 24 reported to the department of management. 1 25 Sec. 2. Section 257.31, subsection 16, Code 1995, is 1 26 amended to read as follows: 1 27 16. The committee shall perform the duties assigned to it 1 28 underchapter 260D and sectionsections 257.32 and 260C.18B. 1 29 Sec. 3. Section 260C.2, Code 1995, is amended by adding 1 30 the following new subsections: 1 31 NEW SUBSECTION. 1A. "Contact hour" means fifty minutes of 1 32 contact between an instructor and students in a scheduled 1 33 course offering for which students are registered. 1 34 NEW SUBSECTION. 2A. "Instructional cost center" means one 1 35 of the following areas of course offerings of the community 2 1 colleges: 2 2 a. Arts and sciences cost center. 2 3 b. Vocational-technical preparatory cost center. 2 4 c. Vocational-technical supplementary cost center. 2 5 d. Adult basic education and high school completion cost 2 6 center. 2 7 e. Continuing and general education cost center. 2 8 Sec. 4. Section 260C.14, Code 1995, is amended by adding 2 9 the following new subsection: 2 10 NEW SUBSECTION. 21. Provide, within a reasonable time, 2 11 information as requested by the departments of management and 2 12 education. 2 13 Sec. 5. Section 260C.18, subsection 4, Code 1995, is 2 14 amended to read as follows: 2 15 4. State aid and supplemental state aid to be paid in 2 16 accordance with the statutes which provide such aid. 2 17 Sec. 6. NEW SECTION. 260C.18A STATE AID. 2 18 For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996, and for each 2 19 succeeding fiscal year, moneys appropriated by the general 2 20 assembly from the general fund of the state to the department 2 21 of education for community college purposes for general state 2 22 financial aid, including general financial aid to merged areas 2 23 in lieu of personal property tax replacement payments under 2 24 section 427A.13, to merged areas as defined in section 260C.2, 2 25 and for vocational education programs in accordance with 2 26 chapters 258 and 260C, for a fiscal year, shall be allocated 2 27 to each community college by the department of education in 2 28 the proportion that the allocation to that community college 2 29 in 1995 Iowa Acts, chapter 218, section 1, subsection 19, 2 30 bears to the total appropriation made in 1995 Iowa Acts, 2 31 chapter 218, section 1, subsection 19. 2 32 Sec. 7. NEW SECTION. 260C.18B COMMUNITY COLLEGE BUDGET 2 33 REVIEW. 2 34 1. A community college budget review procedure is 2 35 established for the school budget review committee created in 3 1 section 257.30. The school budget review committee, in 3 2 addition to its duties under chapter 257, shall meet and hold 3 3 hearings each year under this chapter to review unusual 3 4 circumstances of community colleges, either upon the 3 5 committee's motion or upon the request of a community college. 3 6 The committee may grant supplemental state aid to the 3 7 community college from funds appropriated to the department of 3 8 education for community college budget review purposes. 3 9 Unusual circumstances shall include but not be limited to 3 10 the following: 3 11 a. An unusual increase or decrease in enrollment or 3 12 contact hours. 3 13 b. Natural disasters. 3 14 c. Unusual staffing problems. 3 15 d. Unusual necessity for additional funds to permit 3 16 continuance of a course or program in an instructional cost 3 17 center which provides substantial benefit to students. 3 18 e. Unusual need for a new course or program in an 3 19 instructional cost center which will provide substantial 3 20 benefit to students, if the community college establishes the 3 21 need and the amount of necessary increased cost. 3 22 f. Unique problems of community colleges to include 3 23 vandalism, civil disobedience, and other costs incurred by 3 24 community colleges. 3 25 2. When the school budget review committee makes a 3 26 decision under subsection 1, it shall provide written notice 3 27 of its decision, including the amount of supplemental state 3 28 aid approved, to the board of directors of the community 3 29 college and to the department of education. 3 30 3. All decisions by the school budget review committee 3 31 under this chapter shall be made in accordance with reasonable 3 32 and uniform policies which shall be consistent with this 3 33 chapter. 3 34 4. Failure by a community college to provide information 3 35 or appear before the school budget review committee as 4 1 requested for the accomplishment of review or hearing 4 2 constitutes justification for the committee to instruct the 4 3 department of revenue and finance to withhold supplemental 4 4 state aid to that community college until the committee's 4 5 inquiries are satisfied completely. 4 6 Sec. 8. Section 260C.34, Code 1995, is amended to read as 4 7 follows: 4 8 260C.34 USES OF FUNDS. 4 9 Funds obtained pursuant to section 260C.17; section 4 10 260C.18, subsections 3, 4, and 5of section 260C.18;section4 11 and sections 260C.18A, 260C.18B, 260C.19;, andsection260C.22 4 12 shall not be used for the construction or maintenance of 4 13 athletic buildings or grounds but may be used for a project 4 14 under section 260C.56. 4 15 Sec. 9. Section 260C.39, unnumbered paragraph 5, Code 4 16 1995, is amended to read as follows: 4 17 The terms of employment of personnel, for the academic year 4 18 following the effective date of the agreement to combine the 4 19 merged areas shall not be affected by the combination of the 4 20 merged areas, except in accordance with the procedures under 4 21 sections 279.15 to 279.18 and section 279.24, to the extent 4 22 those procedures are applicable, or under the terms of the 4 23 base bargaining agreement. The authority and responsibility 4 24 to offer new contracts or to continue, modify, or terminate 4 25 existing contracts pursuant to any applicable procedures under 4 26 chapter 279, shall be transferred to the acting, and then to 4 27 the new, board of the combined merged area upon certification 4 28 of a favorable vote to each of the merged areas affected by 4 29 the agreement. The collective bargaining agreement of the 4 30 merged areawith the largest number of contact hours eligible4 31forreceiving the greatest amount of general state aid, as4 32defined under section 260D.2,shall serve as the base 4 33 agreement for the combined merged area and the employees of 4 34 the merged areas which combined to form the new combined 4 35 merged area shall automatically be accreted to the bargaining 5 1 unit from that former merged area for purposes of negotiating 5 2 the contracts for the following years without further action 5 3 by the public employment relations board. If only one 5 4 collective bargaining agreement is in effect among the merged 5 5 areas which are combining under this section, then that 5 6 agreement shall serve as the base agreement, and the employees 5 7 of the merged areas which are combining to form the new 5 8 combined merged area shall automatically be accreted to the 5 9 bargaining unit of that former merged area for purposes of 5 10 negotiating the contracts for the following years without 5 11 further action by the public employment relations board. The 5 12 board of the combined merged area, using the base agreement as 5 13 its existing contract, shall bargain with the combined 5 14 employees of the merged areas that have agreed to combine for 5 15 the academic year beginning with the effective date of the 5 16 agreement to combine merged areas. The bargaining shall be 5 17 completed by March 15 prior to the academic year in which the 5 18 agreement to combine merged areas becomes effective or within 5 19 one hundred eighty days after the organization of the acting 5 20 board of the new combined merged area, whichever is later. If 5 21 a bargaining agreement was already concluded in the former 5 22 merged area which has the collective bargaining agreement that 5 23 is serving as the base agreement for the new combined merged 5 24 area, between the former merged area board and the employees 5 25 of the former merged area, that agreement is void, unless the 5 26 agreement contained multiyear provisions affecting academic 5 27 years subsequent to the effective date of the agreement to 5 28 form a combined merged area. If the base collective 5 29 bargaining agreement contains multiyear provisions, the 5 30 duration and effect of the agreement shall be controlled by 5 31 the terms of the agreement. The provisions of the base 5 32 agreement shall apply to the offering of new contracts, or the 5 33 continuation, modification, or termination of existing 5 34 contracts between the acting or new board of the combined 5 35 merged area and the combined employees of the new combined 6 1 merged area. 6 2 Sec. 10. NEW SECTION. 260C.49 RULES. 6 3 The department of education shall adopt rules and 6 4 definitions of terms necessary for the administration of this 6 5 chapter. The school budget review committee shall adopt rules 6 6 under chapter 17A to carry out section 260C.18B. 6 7 Sec. 11. Section 261C.6, subsection 2, unnumbered 6 8 paragraph 2, Code 1995, is amended to read as follows: 6 9 A pupil is not eligible to enroll on a full-time basis in 6 10 an eligible postsecondary institution and receive payment for 6 11 all courses in which a student is enrolled.If an eligible6 12postsecondary institution is a community college established6 13under chapter 260C, the contact hours of a pupil for which a6 14tuition reimbursement amount is received are not contact hours6 15eligible for general aid under chapter 260D.6 16 Sec. 12. Chapter 260D, Code 1995 and Code Supplement 1995, 6 17 is repealed. 6 18 Sec. 13. FUNDING FORMULA RECOMMENDATIONS. By January 1, 6 19 1997, the department of education, in consultation with the 6 20 Iowa association of community college trustees, shall submit 6 21 to the general assembly recommendations for a funding formula 6 22 that identifies and addresses community college needs. 6 23 Sec. 14. REPEAL – DIRECTION TO CODE EDITOR. Section 6 24 260C.18A, as enacted in this Act, is repealed effective July 6 25 1, 1997. The Code editor shall strike the reference to 6 26 section 260C.18A in section 260C.34 effective July 1, 1997. 6 27 Sec. 15. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of 6 28 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment. 6 29 SF 2403 6 30 kh/cc/26
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