House Journal: Page 1605: Tuesday, April 18, 2000
SENATE AMENDMENT CONSIDERED
Hansen of Pottawattamie called up for consideration House File
2496, a bill for an act providing supplementary weighting for
determining enrollment in school districts involved in district-to-
district or district-to-community-college sharing programs, and at-
risk programs, and providing an effective date, amended by the
Senate amendment H-8905 as follows:
H-8905
1 Amend House File 2496, as passed by the House, as
2 follows:
3 1. By striking page 6, line 2 through page 7,
4 line 22, and inserting the following:
5 "4. AT-RISK PROGRAMS AND ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS.
6 a. In order to provide additional funding to
7 school districts for programs serving at-risk pupils
8 and alternative school pupils in secondary schools, a
9 supplementary weighting plan for at-risk pupils is
10 adopted. A supplementary weighting of four hundred
11 sixty-nine one-hundred-thousandths per pupil shall be
12 assigned to the percentage of pupils in a school
13 district enrolled in grades one through six, as
14 reported by the school district on the basic
15 educational data survey for the base year, who are
16 eligible for free and reduced price meals under the
17 federal National School Lunch Act and the federal
18 Child Nutrition Act of 1966, 42 U.S.C.§ 1751-1785,
19 multiplied by the budget enrollment in the school
20 district; and a supplementary weighting of one hundred
21 fifty-two one-hundred-thousandths per pupil shall be
22 assigned to pupils included in the budget enrollment
23 of the school district. Amounts received as
24 supplementary weighting for at-risk pupils shall be
25 utilized by a school district to develop or maintain
26 at-risk pupils' programs, which may include
27 alternative school programs.
28 b. Notwithstanding paragraph "a", a school
29 district which received supplementary weighting for an
30 alternative high school program for the school budget
31 year beginning July 1, 1999, shall receive an amount
32 of supplementary weighting for the next three school
33 budget years as follows:
34 (1) For the budget year beginning July 1, 2000,
35 the greater of the amount of supplementary weighting
36 determined pursuant to paragraph "a", or sixty-five
37 percent of the amount received for the budget year
38 beginning July 1, 1999.
39 (2) For the budget year beginning July 1, 2001,
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