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House Journal: Page 958: Wednesday, March 25, 1998

 3   follows:
 4     1.  Page 14, line 28, by inserting after the word
 5   "section" the following:  "and section 285.17.  One-
 6   half of the amount appropriated under this subsection
 7   shall be used for purposes of this section and the
 8   remaining half shall be used for purposes of providing
 9   transportation assistance to public school districts
10   as provided in section 285.17".
11     2.  Page 21, by inserting after line 4 the
12   following:
13     "Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  285.17  TRANSPORTATION
14   ASSISTANCE AID TO DISTRICTS.
15     1.  Subject to an appropriation of sufficient funds
16   by the general assembly, the department shall pay
17   transportation assistance aid to school districts
18   whose average transportation costs per pupil exceed
19   one hundred twenty-five percent of the state average
20   transportation costs per pupil determined under
21   subsection 2.
22     2.  A district's average transportation costs per
23   pupil shall be determined by dividing the district's
24   actual cost for all children transported in all school
25   buses for a school year pursuant to section 285.8, by
26   the district's actual enrollment for the school year,
27   as defined in section 257.6.  The state average
28   transportation costs per pupil shall be determined by
29   dividing the total actual costs for all children
30   transported in all districts for a school year, by the
31   total of all districts' actual enrollments for the
32   school year.
33     3.  A school district shall annually certify its
34   actual cost for all children transported in all school
35   buses by July 15 after each school year on forms
36   prescribed by the department of education.
37     4.  If a school district's average transportation
38   costs per pupil are greater than one hundred twenty-
39   five percent of the state average transportation costs
40   per pupil, the department of education shall pay
41   transportation assistance aid equal to the amount of
42   the difference multiplied by the district's actual
43   enrollment for the school year.  However, if the funds
44   appropriated for purposes of this section are
45   insufficient to pay transportation assistance aid as
46   provided in this section, the payments to school
47   districts determined by the department of education to
48   be eligible for transportation assistance as provided
49   in this section shall be prorated such that each
50   school district eligible for assistance aid under this

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 1   section shall receive an amount of transportation
 2   assistance aid equal to the percentage that the

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