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PAG LIN 1 1 1 2 HOUSE FILE 147 1 3 1 4 AN ACT 1 5 PROVIDING ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR CERTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICTS 1 6 THAT HAVE EITHER DECREASING OR INCREASING ENROLLMENTS BY 1 7 EXTENDING THE REGULAR PROGRAM DISTRICT COST GUARANTEE AND 1 8 BY PROVIDING ON-TIME FUNDING, MAKING AN APPROPRIATION, AND 1 9 PROVIDING EFFECTIVE AND APPLICABILITY DATES. 1 10 1 11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 1 12 1 13 Section 1. Section 257.1, subsection 2, unnumbered 1 14 paragraph 3, Code 1999, is amended to read as follows: 1 15 For the budget year commencing July 1,19951999, the 1 16 department of management shall add the amount of the 1 17 additional budget adjustment computed in section 257.14, 1 18 subsection21, to the combined foundation base. 1 19 Sec. 2. NEW SECTION. 257.13 ON-TIME FUNDING FOR NEW 1 20 STUDENTS. 1 21 1. For the school budget year beginning July 1, 1999, if a 1 22 district's actual enrollment for the budget year, determined 1 23 under section 257.6, is greater than its budget enrollment for 1 24 the budget year, the district may submit a request to the 1 25 school budget review committee for on-time funding for new 1 26 students. The school budget review committee shall consider 1 27 the relative increase in enrollment on a district-by-district 1 28 basis, in determining whether to approve the request, and 1 29 shall determine the amount of additional funding to be 1 30 provided if the request is granted. An application for on- 1 31 time funding pursuant to this subsection must be received by 1 32 the department of education by November 1. Written notice of 1 33 the committee's decision shall be given through the department 1 34 of education to the school board for a district. 1 35 2. If the school budget review committee approves a 2 1 request for on-time funding for new students, the funding 2 2 shall be in an amount up to the product of the state cost per 2 3 pupil for the budget year multiplied by the difference between 2 4 the actual enrollment for the budget year and the budget 2 5 enrollment for the budget year. The additional funding 2 6 received under this section is miscellaneous income to the 2 7 district. 2 8 3. There is appropriated for the fiscal year beginning 2 9 July 1, 1999, and ending June 30, 2000, from the general fund 2 10 of the state to the department of education up to four million 2 11 dollars to pay additional funding authorized under this 2 12 section, which shall be paid to school districts in the same 2 13 manner as other state aids payable under section 257.16. If 2 14 the requests approved by the school budget review committee 2 15 exceed the appropriation in this subsection, the payments to 2 16 school districts receiving approval for on-time funding shall 2 17 be prorated such that each school district approved for on- 2 18 time funding shall receive an amount of on-time funding equal 2 19 to the percentage that the on-time funding to be provided to 2 20 the district bears to the total amount of on-time funding to 2 21 be provided to all districts receiving approval. 2 22 4. If the board of directors of a school district 2 23 determines that a need exists for additional funds exceeding 2 24 the state aid amount provided in this section, a request for 2 25 modified allowable growth based upon increased enrollment may 2 26 be submitted to the school budget review committee as provided 2 27 in section 257.31. 2 28 5. A school district which is receiving a budget 2 29 adjustment for a budget year pursuant to section 257.14 shall 2 30 receive on-time funding for increased enrollment, reduced by 2 31 the amount of the budget adjustment for that budget year. The 2 32 resulting amount shall not be less than zero. The school 2 33 district shall comply with the procedures established in 2 34 subsection 1. 2 35 6. If a district receives additional funding under this 3 1 section for a budget year, the department of management shall 3 2 determine the amount of the additional funding which would 3 3 have been generated by local property tax revenues, in 3 4 proportion to the amount of funding actually received pursuant 3 5 to this section, if the actual enrollment for the budget year 3 6 had been used in determining district cost for that budget 3 7 year. The department of management shall reduce, but not by 3 8 more than the amount of the additional funding, the district's 3 9 total state school aids otherwise available under this chapter 3 10 for the next following budget year by the amount so 3 11 determined, and shall increase the district's additional 3 12 property tax levy for the next following budget year by the 3 13 amount necessary to compensate for the reduction in state aid, 3 14 so that the local property tax for the next following year 3 15 will be increased only by the amount which it would have been 3 16 increased in the budget year if the enrollment calculated in 3 17 this section could have been used to establish the levy. 3 18 Sec. 3. Section 257.14, subsection 1, Code 1999, is 3 19 amended to read as follows: 3 20 1. For the budget years commencing July 1, 1997,andJuly 3 21 1, 1998, and July 1, 1999, if the department of management 3 22 determines that the regular program district cost of a school 3 23 district for a budget year is less than the total of the 3 24 regular program district cost plus any adjustment added under 3 25 this section for the base year for that school district, the 3 26 department of management shall provide a budget adjustment for 3 27 that district for that budget year that is equal to the 3 28 difference. 3 29 Sec. 4. APPLICABILITY AND EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being 3 30 deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment 3 31 and applies to the computation of school aid under the state 3 32 school foundation program for the school budget year beginning 3 33 July 1, 1999. 3 34 3 35 4 1 4 2 RON J. CORBETT 4 3 Speaker of the House 4 4 4 5 4 6 4 7 MARY E. KRAMER 4 8 President of the Senate 4 9 4 10 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and 4 11 is known as House File 147, Seventy-eighth General Assembly. 4 12 4 13 4 14 4 15 ELIZABETH ISAACSON 4 16 Chief Clerk of the House 4 17 Approved , 1999 4 18 4 19 4 20 4 21 THOMAS J. VILSACK 4 22 Governor
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