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  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  257.50  TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE
  1  2 AID TO DISTRICTS.
  1  3    1.  The department shall pay transportation assistance aid
  1  4 to a school district from funds appropriated in this section
  1  5 to school districts whose average transportation costs per
  1  6 pupil exceed one hundred twenty-five percent of the state
  1  7 average transportation costs per pupil determined under
  1  8 subsection 2.
  1  9    2.  A district's average transportation costs per pupil
  1 10 shall be determined by dividing the district's actual cost for
  1 11 all children transported in all school buses for a school year
  1 12 pursuant to section 285.1, subsection 12, by the district's
  1 13 actual enrollment for the school year, as defined in section
  1 14 257.6.  The state average transportation costs per pupil shall
  1 15 be determined by dividing the total actual costs for all
  1 16 children transported in all districts for a school year, by
  1 17 the total of all districts' actual enrollments for the school
  1 18 year.
  1 19    3.  A school district shall annually certify its actual
  1 20 cost for all children transported in all school buses by July
  1 21 15 after each school year on forms prescribed by the
  1 22 department of education.
  1 23    4.  If a school district's average transportation costs per
  1 24 pupil are greater than one hundred twenty-five percent of the
  1 25 state average transportation costs per pupil, the department
  1 26 of education shall pay transportation assistance aid equal to
  1 27 the amount of the difference multiplied by the district's
  1 28 actual enrollment for the school year.
  1 29    5.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the
  1 30 state to the department of education, for each fiscal year, an
  1 31 amount necessary to pay transportation assistance aid pursuant
  1 32 to this section.  Transportation assistance aid is
  1 33 miscellaneous income for purposes of chapter 257.  
  1 34                           EXPLANATION
  1 35    This bill provides an appropriation to the department of
  2  1 education in an amount necessary to pay transportation
  2  2 assistance aid to school districts whose average
  2  3 transportation costs per pupil exceed 125 percent of the state
  2  4 average transportation costs per pupil.
  2  5    Districts are required to annually certify their costs for
  2  6 transportation to the department of education by July 15 after
  2  7 each school year.  
  2  8 LSB 1138YH 77
  2  9 kh/sc/14 
     

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