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House Journal: Page 1043: Wednesday, March 27, 1996

Shoultz of Black Hawk offered the following amendment H-5633, to
amendment H-5523, filed by him and Ollie and moved its adoption:

H-5633

 1     Amend the amendment, H-5523, to Senate File 2449,
 2   as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as
 3   follows:
 4     1.  By striking page 3, line 28, through page 6,
 5   line 1, and inserting the following:
 6                       "SCHOOL FUNDING
 7     Sec. ___.  Section 256B.9, Code 1995, is amended by
 8   adding the following new subsection:
 9     NEW SUBSECTION.  10.  For the school year
10   commencing July 1, 1996, the director of the
11   department of education shall report to the school
12   budget review committee the total statewide deficit,
13   actual or estimate for the most recent school year
14   available, in costs for providing instruction for
15   children requiring special education in the categories
16   of the weighting plan established under this section,
17   and for providing services to nonpublic school
18   students pursuant to section 256.12, subsection 2.
19   The school budget review committee shall adjust the
20   weighting plan beginning with the school year
21   beginning July 1, 1996, so as to eliminate the amount
22   of the statewide deficit as reported by the director.
23   Any adjustment to weightings made under this
24   subsection shall be in addition to any adjustments
25   made pursuant to subsection 4.
26     Sec. ___.  Section 257.1, subsection 2, unnumbered
27   paragraph 2, Code Supplement 1995, is amended to read
28   as follows:
29     For the budget year commencing July 1, 1991 1996,
30   and for each succeeding budget year the regular
31   program foundation base per pupil is eighty-three
32   eighty-five percent of the regular program state cost
33   per pupil, except that the regular program foundation
34   base per pupil for the portion of weighted enrollment
35   that is additional enrollment because of special
36   education is seventy-nine percent of the regular
37   program state cost per pupil.  For each succeeding
38   budget year, the regular program foundation base shall
39   increase one-half of one percent per year until the
40   regular program foundation base reaches ninety percent
41   of the regular program state cost per pupil.  For the
42   budget year commencing July 1, 1991 1996, and for
each
43   succeeding budget year the special education support
44   services foundation base is seventy-nine eighty-five
45   percent of the special education support services
46   state cost per pupil.  It shall increase at the same
47   rate as the regular program foundation base.  The
48   combined foundation base is the sum of the regular
49   program foundation base and the special education
50   support services foundation base.

Iowa General Assembly

Index: House Journal (76th General Assembly: Session 2)

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