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House Journal: Page 1523: Wednesday, April 10, 1996

28   paid, or promised to pay, at more than a nominal rate,
29   for copies to be received during a stated period.  At
30   the hearing, the board shall announce a date certain,
31   or no later than thirty days after the date of the
32   hearing, that it will the board shall take action to
33   adopt a resolution to participate in the instructional
34   support program for a period not exceeding five years
35   or to direct the county commissioner of elections to
36   call an election to submit the question of
37   participation in the program for a period not
38   exceeding ten years to the registered voters of the
39   school district at the next following regular school
40   election in the base year or at a special election
41   held not later than December 1 of the base year.  If
42   the board calls submits the question at an election
on
43   the question of participation, if and a majority of
44   those voting on the question favors participation in
45   the program, the board shall adopt a resolution to
46   participate and certify the results of the election to
47   the department of management.
48     Sec. 2.  Section 257.18, subsection 2, unnumbered
49   paragraph 1, Code Supplement 1995, is amended to read
50   as follows:

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 1     If the board does not provide for an election and
 2   adopts a resolution to participate in the
 3   instructional support program, the district shall
 4   participate in the instructional support program
 5   unless within twenty-eight days following the action
 6   of the board, the secretary of the board receives a
 7   petition containing the required number of signatures,
 8   asking that an election be called to approve or
 9   disapprove the action of the board in adopting the
10   instructional support program.  The petition must be
11   signed by eligible electors equal in number to not
12   less than one hundred or thirty percent of the number
13   of voters at the last preceding regular school
14   election, whichever is greater.  The board shall
15   either rescind its action or direct the county
16   commissioner of elections to submit the question to
17   the registered voters of the school district at the
18   next following regular school election or a special
19   election held not later than December 1 of the base
20   year.  If a majority of those voting on the question
21   at the election favors disapproval of the action of
22   the board, the district shall not participate in the
23   instructional support program.  If a majority of those
24   voting on the question favors approval of the action,
25   the board shall certify the results of the election to
26   the department of management and the district shall
27   participate in the program."

Iowa General Assembly

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

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