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1 1 Section 1. Section 257.1, subsection 2, unnumbered
1 2 paragraph 2, Code Supplement 1999, is amended to read as
1 3 follows:
1 4 For the budget year commencing July 1, 1999, and for each
1 5 succeeding budget year the regular program foundation base per
1 6 pupil is eighty-seven and five-tenths percent of the regular
1 7 program state cost per pupil. For the budget year beginning
1 8 July 1, 2000, this amount shall be increased by an additional
1 9 amount determined pursuant to section 257.10, subsection 2,
1 10 paragraph "c". For the budget year commencing July 1, 1991,
1 11 and for each succeeding budget year the special education
1 12 support services foundation base is seventy-nine percent of
1 13 the special education support services state cost per pupil.
1 14 The combined foundation base is the sum of the regular program
1 15 foundation base and the special education support services
1 16 foundation base.
1 17 Sec. 2. Section 257.10, subsection 2, Code Supplement
1 18 1999, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
1 19 NEW PARAGRAPH. c. For the budget year beginning July 1,
1 20 2000, the regular program district cost per pupil determined
1 21 pursuant to paragraph "a" for each school district shall be
1 22 increased by an amount equal to ten million dollars times the
1 23 budget enrollment for that school district divided by the
1 24 combined budget enrollment for all school districts in the
1 25 state. Notwithstanding paragraph "b", the regular program
1 26 district cost per pupil shall not be subject to a reduction if
1 27 the regular program district cost per pupil would not have
1 28 exceeded one hundred five percent of the regular program state
1 29 cost per pupil but for the increase received pursuant to this
1 30 paragraph. For purposes of determining the amount of a budget
1 31 adjustment as defined in section 257.14, the increase received
1 32 pursuant to this paragraph shall be subtracted from the school
1 33 district's regular program district cost per pupil for the
1 34 budget year beginning July 1, 2000, prior to determining the
1 35 amount of the adjustment.
2 1 Sec. 3. Section 257.11, subsection 2, unnumbered paragraph
2 2 1, Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
2 3 If the school budget review committee certifies to the
2 4 department of management that the shared classes or teachers
2 5 would otherwise not be implemented without the assignment of
2 6 additional weighting, pupils attending classes in another
2 7 school district or a community college, attending classes
2 8 taught by a teacher who is employed jointly under section
2 9 280.15, or attending classes taught by a teacher who is
2 10 employed by another school district, are assigned a weighting
2 11 of one plus an additional portion equal to one times the
2 12 percent of the pupil's school day during which the pupil
2 13 attends classes in another district or community college,
2 14 attends classes taught by a teacher who is jointly employed
2 15 under section 280.15, or attends classes taught by a teacher
2 16 who is employed by another school district. A pupil attending
2 17 a class in which students from one or more other school
2 18 districts are enrolled and the class is taught via the Iowa
2 19 communications network is not deemed to be attending a class
2 20 in another school district for the purposes of this subsection
2 21 and the school district is not eligible for additional
2 22 weighting for that class under this subsection. A pupil
2 23 enrolled in an alternative high school program in another
2 24 school district shall not be eligible for additional weighting
2 25 under this subsection.
2 26 Sec. 4. NEW SECTION. 257.50 AT-RISK PROGRAMS.
2 27 The increase in the regular program district cost per pupil
2 28 for the budget year beginning July 1, 2000, pursuant to
2 29 section 257.10, subsection 2, paragraph "c", shall be utilized
2 30 by school districts to develop or maintain at-risk pupils
2 31 programs or alternative programs, including alternative high
2 32 school programs, for pupils in grades nine through twelve, and
2 33 shall be in addition to and shall not supplant moneys
2 34 appropriated in section 279.51 and moneys otherwise
2 35 appropriated by law for at-risk pupils programs and
3 1 alternative programs.
3 2 Sec. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of
3 3 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
3 4 EXPLANATION
3 5 This bill provides for additional state aid to school
3 6 districts for at-risk programs. The bill provides that the
3 7 regular program foundation base per pupil, and the district
3 8 cost per pupil, shall be increased by an amount equal to $10
3 9 million divided by the combined budget enrollment for each
3 10 school district in the state, for the school budget year
3 11 beginning July 1, 2000. The bill provides that the increase
3 12 in district cost per pupil shall be utilized by school
3 13 districts to develop or maintain at-risk pupils programs or
3 14 alternative programs, including alternative high school
3 15 programs, for pupils in grades nine through 12.
3 16 The bill also provides that the increase in district cost
3 17 per pupil shall not be counted for purposes of determining
3 18 whether or not the regular program district cost of a school
3 19 district exceeds 105 percent of the regular program state cost
3 20 per pupil, which would otherwise result in a reduction in
3 21 district cost per pupil pursuant to Code section 257.10,
3 22 subsection 2, paragraph "b". The bill additionally provides
3 23 that for purposes of determining the amount of a budget
3 24 adjustment pursuant to Code section 257.14, the increase shall
3 25 be subtracted from the school district's regular program
3 26 district cost per pupil for the budget year beginning July 1,
3 27 2000, prior to determining the amount of the adjustment. The
3 28 bill provides that school districts shall no longer be
3 29 eligible for supplementary weighting currently received for
3 30 pupils enrolled in shared alternative high school programs
3 31 between school districts pursuant to Code section 257.11,
3 32 subsection 2.
3 33 The bill takes effect upon enactment.
3 34 LSB 5578HH 78
3 35 rn/as/5
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