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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 275.12, subsection 1, Code 1999, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 1. A petition describing the boundaries, or accurately 1 4 describing the area included therein by legal descriptions, of 1 5 the proposed district, which boundaries or area described 1 6 shall conform to plans developed or the petition shall request 1 7 change of the plan, shall be filed with the area education 1 8 agency administrator of the area education agencyin which the1 9greatest number of registered voters residewhich has the 1 10 least number of students served from among the area education 1 11 agencies within which the reorganized school district is 1 12 encompassed. However, the area education agency administrator 1 13 shall not accept a petition if any of the school districts 1 14 affected have approved the issuance of general obligation 1 15 bonds at an election pursuant to section 296.6 during the 1 16 preceding six-month period. The petition shall be signed by 1 17 registered voters in each existing school district or portion 1 18 affected equal in number to at least twenty percent of the 1 19 number of registered voters or four hundred registered voters, 1 20 whichever is the smaller number. 1 21 Sec. 2. Section 275.27, Code 1999, is amended to read as 1 22 follows: 1 23 275.27 COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICTS – PART OF AREA 1 24 EDUCATION AGENCY. 1 25 School districts created or enlarged under this chapter are 1 26 community school districts and are part of the area education 1 27 agencyin which the greatest number of registered voters of1 28the district residewhich has the least number of students 1 29 served from among the area education agencies within which the 1 30 reorganized school district is encompassed at the time of the 1 31 special election called for in section 275.18, and sections of 1 32 the Code applicable to the common schools generally are 1 33 applicable to these districts in addition to the powers and 1 34 privileges conferred by this chapter. If a school district, 1 35 created or enlarged under this chapter and assigned to an area 2 1 education agency under this section, can demonstrate that 2 2 students in the district were utilizing a service or program 2 3 prior to the formation of the new or enlarged district that is 2 4 unavailable from the area education agency to which the new or 2 5 enlarged district is assigned, the district may be reassigned 2 6 to the area education agency which formerly provided the 2 7 service or program, upon an affirmative majority vote of the 2 8 boards of the affected area education agencies to permit the 2 9 change. 2 10 EXPLANATION 2 11 This bill provides a revised method of determining which 2 12 area education agency a community school district will be 2 13 affiliated with after the reorganization creating the 2 14 community school district occurs. 2 15 Previously, school districts created or enlarged pursuant 2 16 to the provisions of Code chapter 275 were assigned to the 2 17 area education agency, from among all the area education 2 18 agencies within which the reorganized school district is 2 19 encompassed, in which the greatest number of registered voters 2 20 of the reorganized district reside at the time the special 2 21 election on the question of reorganization is called for in 2 22 Code section 275.18. This bill provides that school districts 2 23 will now be assigned to the area education agency which has 2 24 the least number of students from among all the area education 2 25 agencies within which the reorganized school district is 2 26 encompassed. 2 27 The bill additionally provides for a similar conforming 2 28 change regarding where an election petition describing the 2 29 boundaries of a prospective reorganized school district will 2 30 be filed. Previously, the petition was filed with the 2 31 administrator representing the area education agency where the 2 32 greatest number of registered voters resided, from among all 2 33 the area education agencies within which the reorganized 2 34 school district is encompassed. In order to be consistent 2 35 with the change in determination method regarding assignment 3 1 of a reorganized school district to an area education agency, 3 2 the petition would now be filed with the administrator 3 3 representing the area education agency which has the least 3 4 number of students from among all the area education agencies 3 5 within which the reorganized school district is encompassed. 3 6 LSB 1377HH 78 3 7 rn/jw/5
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