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House Journal: Page 275: Wednesday, February 7, 1996

27   requesting to use additional allowable growth
receive
28   supplementary weighting for gifted and talented
29   children programs shall submit applications for
30   approval for the programs to the department not later
31   than November 1 preceding the fiscal year during which
32   the program will be offered.  The board shall also
33   submit a copy of the program plans to the gifted and
34   talented children advisory council, if an advisory
35   council has been established.  The department shall
36   review the program plans and shall prior to January 15
37   either grant approval for the program or return the
38   request for approval with comments of the department
39   included.  Any unapproved request for a program may be
40   resubmitted with modifications to the department not
41   later than a date established by the department.  Not
42   later than February 15 the department shall notify the
43   department of management and the school budget review
44   committee of the names of the school districts for
45   which gifted and talented children programs using
46   additional allowable growth receiving supplementary
47   weighting for funding have been approved and the
48   approved budget of each program listed separately for
49   each school district having an approved program.
50     Sec. ___.  Section 257.46, Code 1995, is amended to

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 1   read as follows:
 2     257.46  FUNDING.
 3     The budget of an approved gifted and talented
 4   children program for a school district, after
 5   subtracting funds received from other sources for that
 6   purpose, shall be funded annually on a basis of one-
 7   fourth or more from the district cost of the school
 8   district and up to three-fourths by an increase in
 9   allowable growth as defined in section 257.8 receipt
10   of supplementary weighting as provided in section
11   257.11, subsection 8.  The approved budget for a
12   gifted and talented children program shall not exceed
13   an amount equal to one and twenty-four-hundredths
14   percent of the district cost per pupil of the district
15   for the base year multiplied by the budget enrollment
16   of the district for the budget year.  Annually, the
17   department of management shall establish a modified
18   allowable growth the amount of additional funding
19   needed to be raised from the supplementary weighting
20   for each such district equal to the difference between
21   the approved budget for the gifted and talented
22   children program for that district and the sum of the
23   amount funded from the district cost of the school
24   district plus funds received from other sources.
25     If any portion of the gifted and talented program
26   budget remains unexpended at the end of the budget
27   year, the part of the remainder equal to the
28   proportion of the original budget which was funded by

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