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Senate Amendment 3242

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  1  1    Amend Senate File 464 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 24, by inserting after line 23 the
  1  3 following:
  1  4    "Sec.    .  Section 257.8, Code 1999, is amended by
  1  5 adding the following new subsection:
  1  6    NEW SUBSECTION.  2A.  Notwithstanding the
  1  7 calculation in subsection 2, the department of
  1  8 management shall calculate the regular program
  1  9 allowable growth for the budget year beginning July 1,
  1 10 1999, by multiplying the state percent of growth for
  1 11 the budget year by the regular program state cost per
  1 12 pupil for the base year plus thirty-eight dollars.
  1 13    Sec.    .  Section 257.10, subsection 5, Code 1999,
  1 14 is amended to read as follows:
  1 15    5.  COMBINED DISTRICT COST PER PUPIL.  The combined
  1 16 district cost per pupil for a school district is the
  1 17 sum of the regular program district cost per pupil and
  1 18 the special education support services district cost
  1 19 per pupil.  Combined district cost per pupil does not
  1 20 include additional allowable growth added for school
  1 21 districts that have a negative balance of funds raised
  1 22 for special education instruction programs, additional
  1 23 allowable growth granted by the school budget review
  1 24 committee for a single school year, or additional
  1 25 allowable growth added for programs for dropout
  1 26 prevention and for programs for gifted and talented
  1 27 children.
  1 28    Sec.    .  Section 257.42, unnumbered paragraphs 1,
  1 29 4, and 5, Code 1999, are amended to read as follows:
  1 30    Boards of school districts, individually or jointly
  1 31 with the boards of other school districts, requesting
  1 32 to use additional allowable growth for gifted and
  1 33 talented children programs, may shall annually submit
  1 34 program plans for gifted and talented children
  1 35 programs and budget costs, including requests for
  1 36 additional allowable growth for funding the programs,
  1 37 to the department of education and to the applicable
  1 38 gifted and talented children advisory council, if an
  1 39 advisory council has been established, as provided in
  1 40 this chapter.
  1 41    The department of education shall adopt rules under
  1 42 chapter 17A relating to the administration of sections
  1 43 257.42 through 257.49.  The rules shall prescribe the
  1 44 format of program plans submitted under section 257.43
  1 45 and shall require that programs fulfill specified
  1 46 objectives.  The department shall encourage and assist
  1 47 school districts to provide programs for gifted and
  1 48 talented children whether or not additional allowable
  1 49 growth is requested under this chapter.
  1 50    The department may request that the staff of the
  2  1 auditor of state conduct an independent program audit
  2  2 to verify that the gifted and talented programs funded
  2  3 by additional allowable growth conform to a district's
  2  4 program plans.
  2  5    Sec.    .  Section 257.43, Code 1999, is amended to
  2  6 read as follows:
  2  7    257.43  PROGRAM PLANS.
  2  8    The program plans submitted by school districts
  2  9 shall be part of the school improvement plan submitted
  2 10 pursuant to section 256.7, subsection 21, paragraph
  2 11 "a", and shall include all of the following:
  2 12    1.  Program goals, objectives, and activities to
  2 13 meet the needs of gifted and talented children.
  2 14    2.  Student identification criteria and procedures.
  2 15    3.  Staff in-service education design.
  2 16    4.  Staff utilization plans.
  2 17    5.  Evaluation criteria and procedures and
  2 18 performance measures.
  2 19    6.  Program budget.
  2 20    7.  Qualifications required of personnel
  2 21 administering the program.
  2 22    8.  Other factors the department requires.
  2 23    Sec.    .  Section 257.45, subsection 1, Code 1999,
  2 24 is amended to read as follows:
  2 25    1.  The board of directors of a school district
  2 26 requesting to use additional allowable growth for
  2 27 gifted and talented children programs shall submit
  2 28 applications for approval for the programs to the
  2 29 department not later than November 1 preceding the
  2 30 fiscal year during which the program will be offered.
  2 31 The board shall also submit a copy of the program
  2 32 plans to the gifted and talented children advisory
  2 33 council, if an advisory council has been established.
  2 34 The department shall review the program plans and
  2 35 shall prior to January 15 either grant approval for
  2 36 the program or return the request for approval with
  2 37 comments of the department included.  Any unapproved
  2 38 request for a program may be resubmitted with
  2 39 modifications to the department not later than a date
  2 40 established by the department.  Not later than
  2 41 February 15 the department shall notify the department
  2 42 of management and the school budget review committee
  2 43 of the names of the school districts for which gifted
  2 44 and talented children programs using additional
  2 45 allowable growth for funding have been approved and
  2 46 the approved budget of each program listed separately
  2 47 for each school district having an approved program.
  2 48    Sec.    .  Section 257.46, Code 1999, is amended to
  2 49 read as follows:
  2 50    257.46  FUNDING.
  3  1    The budget of an approved gifted and talented
  3  2 children program for a school district, after
  3  3 subtracting funds received from other sources for that
  3  4 purpose, shall be funded annually on a basis of one-
  3  5 fourth or more from the district cost of the school
  3  6 district and up to three-fourths by an increase in
  3  7 allowable growth as defined in section 257.8.  The
  3  8 approved budget for a gifted and talented children
  3  9 program shall not exceed an amount equal to one and
  3 10 twenty-four-hundredths percent of the district cost
  3 11 per pupil of the district for the base year multiplied
  3 12 by the budget enrollment of the district for the
  3 13 budget year.  Annually, the department of management
  3 14 shall establish a modified allowable growth for each
  3 15 such district equal to the difference between the
  3 16 approved budget for the gifted and talented children
  3 17 program for that district and the sum of the amount
  3 18 funded from the district cost of the school district
  3 19 plus funds received from other sources.
  3 20    If any portion of the gifted and talented program
  3 21 budget remains unexpended at the end of the budget
  3 22 year, the part of the remainder equal to the
  3 23 proportion of the original budget which was funded by
  3 24 an increase in allowable growth, as defined in section
  3 25 257.8, shall be carried over to the subsequent budget
  3 26 year and added to the gifted and talented program
  3 27 budget for that year."
  3 28    #2.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  3 29 
  3 30 
  3 31                               
  3 32 ELAINE SZYMONIAK 
  3 33 ROBERT E. DVORSKY 
  3 34 BETTY A. SOUKUP 
  3 35 MARK SHEARER 
  3 36 WALLY E. HORN 
  3 37 SF 464.506 78
  3 38 kh/jw
     

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