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Senate Amendment 5016

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  1  1    Amend Senate File 2094 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 1, by striking lines 9 through 12 and
  1  3 inserting the following:  "governor's budget under
  1  4 section 8.21.  The establishment of the state percent
  1  5 of growth for a budget year shall be the only subject
  1  6 matter of the bill which enacts the state percent of
  1  7 growth for a budget year."
  1  8    #2.  Page 1, by inserting after line 12 the
  1  9 following:
  1 10    "Sec. 2.  Section 280.4, subsection 3, Code 1997,
  1 11 is amended to read as follows:
  1 12    3.  In order to provide funds for the excess costs
  1 13 of instruction of limited English proficient students
  1 14 above the costs of instruction of pupils in a regular
  1 15 curriculum, students identified as limited English
  1 16 proficient shall be assigned an additional weighting
  1 17 that shall be included in the weighted enrollment of
  1 18 the school district of residence for a period not
  1 19 exceeding three five years.  However, the school
  1 20 budget review committee may grant supplemental aid or
  1 21 modified allowable growth to a school district to
  1 22 continue funding a program for students after the
  1 23 expiration of the three-year five-year period.  The
  1 24 school budget review committee shall calculate the
  1 25 additional amount for the weighting to the nearest
  1 26 one-hundredth of one percent so that to the extent
  1 27 possible the moneys generated by the weighting will be
  1 28 equivalent to the moneys generated by the two-tenths
  1 29 weighting provided prior to July 2, 1991.
  1 30    Sec. 3.  Section 280.4, Code 1997, is amended by
  1 31 adding the following new subsection:
  1 32    NEW SUBSECTION.  4.  There shall be appropriated
  1 33 from the general fund of the state to the school
  1 34 budget review committee $300,000 annually, to
  1 35 establish an additional limited English proficient
  1 36 grant program for school districts containing pupils
  1 37 identified as limited English proficient.  Grant award
  1 38 criteria and application procedures shall be
  1 39 established by rule.  Awards shall be made by the
  1 40 school budget review committee to districts with the
  1 41 greatest concentration of limited English proficient
  1 42 students or with the largest number of limited English
  1 43 proficient students with, in the determination of the
  1 44 committee, unmet needs."
  1 45    #3.  Page 1, by striking line 13 and inserting the
  1 46 following:
  1 47    "Sec. 4.  APPLICABILITY DATE.  Section 1 of this
  1 48 Act is applicable for".
  1 49    #4.  Title page, line 2, by inserting after the
  1 50 word "program," the following:  "providing additional
  2  1 funding for limited English proficient students,".  
  2  2 
  2  3 
  2  4                               
  2  5 PATRICIA HARPER
  2  6 
  2  7 
  2  8                               
  2  9 STEVEN D. HANSEN
  2 10 
  2 11 
  2 12                               
  2 13 ELAINE SZYMONIAK 
  2 14 
  2 15 
  2 16                               
  2 17 ROBERT E. DVORSKY 
  2 18 SF 2094.202 77
  2 19 rn/jl/28
     

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