House Journal: Page 1763: Tuesday, April 27, 1999

 6   eligible to receive a school ready children 

grant
 7   designated by the Iowa board in accordance with
 8   section 7I.4, in order to be eligible to receive an
 9   early childhood programs grant."
10     9.  Page 8, line 14, by striking the word "Unless"
11   and inserting the following:  "Beginning July 1, 1999,
12   unless".
13     10.  Page 8, line 16, by inserting before the word
14   "moneys" the following:  "school ready children
15   grant".
16     11.  Page 8, by inserting after line 26 the
17   following:
18     "Sec. 100.  1999 Iowa Acts, House File 760, section
19   2, subsection 1, paragraphs a and b, if enacted, are
20   amended to read as follows:
21     a.  The area must be approved designated as a
22   community empowerment area by the Iowa empowerment
23   board in accordance with section 7I.4.
24     b.  The maximum funding amount a designated
25   community empowerment area is eligible to receive
26   shall be determined by applying the area's percentage
27   of the state's average monthly family investment
28   program population in the preceding fiscal year to the
29   total amount appropriated in this section for fiscal
30   year 1999-2000.  If the a community empowerment
31   board's request for funding official designation is
32   received by the Iowa empowerment board on or after
33   August September 1, 1999, upon designation, the
34   maximum funding amount shall be prorated for the
35   fiscal year and rounded up to the nearest full month.
36   The department of human services may adopt emergency
37   rules to implement the provisions of this paragraph
38   and the amendment in 1999 Iowa Acts, Senate File 439,
39   to section 7I.8, subsection 3, if enacted."
40     12.  Page 9, line 17, by inserting after the
41   figure "2001" the following:  ", and the duration of
42   such grants and of grants initially awarded prior to
43   the effective date of this Act shall be adjusted to
44   annualize the distribution of funding to grantees as
45   follows:
46     a.  For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999, the
47   duration of the second year of school ready children
48   grants that were initially funded in the previous
49   fiscal year shall be shortened to end on June 30,
50   2000, and the amount of the grant paid out in the
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 1   fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999, shall be prorated
 2   accordingly.  However, in the fiscal year beginning
 3   July 1, 1999, the three school ready children grant
 4   applications submitted in the December 1998 grant

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