House Journal: Page 349: Wednesday, February 25, 1998

House File 2449, by Houser, Grundberg, Boddicker, Heaton,
Lord, Thomson, Barry, Veenstra, Brauns, Hansen, Osterhaus,
Foege, Carroll, and Mertz, a bill for an act creating an Iowa
empowerment board for managing state and community efforts
involving community empowerment areas and providing effective
dates.
Read first time and referred to committee on local government.

CONSIDERATION OF BILL
Ways and Means Calendar
The House resumed consideration of House File 2282, a bill for
an act authorizing the imposition of a local option sales and
services tax and use of certain federal funds for school
infrastructure projects and the issuance of bonds, and providing
an effective date, previously deferred. 
Millage of Scott offered amendment H-8076 filed by him as
follows:

H-8076

 1     Amend House File 2282 as follows:
 2     1. Page 7, line 4, by striking the word "SAFETY".
 3     2. Page 7, line 12, by striking the word "safety".
 4     3. By striking page 7, line 13 through page 8,
 5   line 20, and inserting the following:
 6     "2.  The funds shall be allocated to school
 7   districts throughout the state on a per pupil basis,
 8   in the proportion that the basic enrollment of a
 9   school district bears to the sum of the basic
10   enrollments of all school districts in the state for
11   the budget year.  The funds shall be utilized for
12   school infrastructure purposes as defined in section
13   422E.1, including the payment or retirement of
14   outstanding bonds previously issued for school
15   infrastructure purposes."
Kreiman of Davis offered the following amendment H-8089, to
amendment H-8076, filed by him and moved its adoption:

H-8089

 1     Amend the amendment, H-8076, to House File 2282 as
 2   follows:
 3     1.  Page 1, by striking line 15 and inserting the
 4   following:  "infrastructure purposes.
 5     3.  If federal rules or regulations are adopted
 6   relating to the distribution or utilization of funds
 7   allocated to the state department of education
 8   pursuant to this section which are inconsistent with

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