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House Journal: Page 250: Wednesday, February 1, 1995

 3   clause and inserting the following:
 4     "Section 1.  Section 257.31, Code 1995, is amended
 5   by adding the following new subsection:
 6     NEW SUBSECTION.  17.  The committee may grant
 7   transportation assistance aid to a school district
 8   from funds appropriated in this subsection for the
 9   purpose of providing additional funds for a budget
10   year to school districts that have costs for mandatory
11   school transportation that exceed one hundred twenty-
12   five percent of the state average cost of mandatory
13   school transportation based upon the cost per pupil
14   transported.  School districts shall annually submit
15   to the department of education the cost of providing
16   mandatory school transportation in a school year in
17   their transportation report filed by July 15 of the
18   next school year.  The committee shall authorize the
19   payment of transportation assistance aid to a district
20   in an amount equal to that district's average cost of
21   mandatory transportation per pupil transported which
22   exceeds one hundred twenty-five percent of the state
23   average cost of mandatory transportation per pupil
24   transported multiplied by the number of pupils
25   transported mandatorily by the district.  Payment for
26   a school year shall be made by September 1 of the
27   school year.
28     There is appropriated from the general fund of the
29   state to the department of education for use by the
30   school budget review committee, for each fiscal year,
31   the sum of fifteen million dollars for the payment of
32   transportation assistance aid to school districts
33   under this subsection.  Transportation assistance aid
34   shall be miscellaneous income and shall not be
35   included in district cost.  Unobligated and
36   unencumbered moneys remaining from the appropriations
37   made under this subsection after the September 1
38   payment of transportation assistance aid shall be
39   deposited in the assisted school districts fund
40   created in section 257.50.
41     Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  257.50  ASSISTED SCHOOL
42   DISTRICTS.
43     1.  An assisted school district is a school
44   district that has one or more elementary school
45   attendance centers in which at least fifty percent of
46   the students enrolled in the attendance center qualify
47   for free or reduced price lunches.  A school district
48   that determines it is an assisted school district
49   under this section shall annually certify to the
50   department of education its eligibility to receive
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 1   funds under this section by October 1.
 2     2.  An assisted school districts fund is
 3   established in the office of the treasurer of state to

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