House Journal: Page 1268: Wednesday, April 5, 2000
the following bills be immediately messaged to the Senate: House
Concurrent Resolution 118 and Senate File 2079.
SENATE AMENDMENTS CONSIDERED
Dolecheck of Ringgold called up for consideration House File
2198, a bill for an act directing the department of education to
conduct a feasibility study of reorganization and sharing incentives
for school districts, amended by the Senate, and moved that the
House concur in the following Senate amendment H-8716:
H-8716
1 Amend House File 2198, as passed by the House as
2 follows:
3 1. Page 1, line 4, by inserting after the word
4 "incentives." the following: "As a component of the
5 study, the department shall invite the Iowa high
6 school athletic association and the Iowa girls high
7 school athletic union to submit for consideration any
8 information or advice for the elimination of sports-
9 related barriers to reorganization."
10 2. Page 1, line 5, by inserting after the word
11 "include" the following: ", but shall not be limited
12 to,".
13 3. Page 1, line 7, by striking the words "shall
14 include".
15 4. Page 1, line 8, by inserting after the word
16 "identified" the following: "; shall gather and
17 report data relating to reorganization efforts since
18 1979, listing the school districts that utilized
19 reorganization or sharing incentives such as whole
20 grade sharing, shared classes or teachers, shared
21 superintendents, and shared mathematics, science, and
22 language courses, the current status of school
23 districts that received reorganization or sharing
24 incentives, the costs of the incentives, the school
25 districts that consolidated, and how incentives were
26 used by the school districts; shall study the
27 feasibility of providing sharing incentives to
28 encourage transportation partnering; shall determine
29 the efficacy and the cost effectiveness of the
30 incentives; shall study the feasibility of providing
31 school infrastructure funding as a reorganization
32 incentive; and shall identify actions that may be
33 taken by the state, the department of education, area
34 education agencies, and stakeholders that have proven
35 in the past to assist school district reorganization
36 and whole grade sharing efforts".
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