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House Amendment 1644

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend the amendment, H-1614, to Senate File 203, as
  1  2 passed the Senate, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 7, by inserting after line 34 the
  1  4 following:
  1  5    "Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  285.17  TRANSPORTATION
  1  6 FUNDING.
  1  7    Transportation services provided by a school
  1  8 district, other than for reimbursement of nonpublic
  1  9 school pupil transportation pursuant to section 285.2,
  1 10 shall be funded pursuant to the district
  1 11 transportation levy established in section 298.4A.  A
  1 12 school district with an average transportation cost
  1 13 exceeding the state average transportation cost by one
  1 14 hundred fifty percent shall be eligible for
  1 15 transportation assistance aid pursuant to section
  1 16 257.31, subsection 17.
  1 17    Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  298.4A  DISTRICT
  1 18 TRANSPORTATION LEVY.
  1 19    1.  The board of directors of an eligible school
  1 20 district may certify for levy by April 15 of a school
  1 21 year, a tax on all taxable property in the school
  1 22 district for a district transportation levy.  A school
  1 23 district shall be eligible to levy for transportation
  1 24 costs if the district's average transportation cost
  1 25 exceeds one hundred seventy dollars per pupil.  The
  1 26 revenues from the tax levied in this section shall be
  1 27 placed in the district transportation levy fund of the
  1 28 school district.  District transportation levy
  1 29 revenues shall be expended for transportation costs
  1 30 incurred pursuant to chapter 285 including, but not
  1 31 limited to, costs for the following:
  1 32    a.  Transporting students.
  1 33    b.  Purchasing of transportation equipment.
  1 34    c.  Purchasing transportation services.
  1 35    d.  Leasing transportation equipment and lease-
  1 36 purchasing transportation equipment.
  1 37    2.  The amount certified for levy shall not include
  1 38 claims for reimbursement of nonpublic school pupil
  1 39 transportation for which funds are appropriated to the
  1 40 department of education pursuant to section 285.2.
  1 41    Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  298A.3A  DISTRICT
  1 42 TRANSPORTATION LEVY FUND.
  1 43    The district transportation levy fund is a special
  1 44 revenue fund.  A district transportation levy fund
  1 45 must be established in any school corporation which
  1 46 levies the tax authorized under section 298.4A."
  1 47    #2.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  1 48 
  1 49 
  1 50                               
  2  1 HEATON of Henry
  2  2 SF 203.305 79
  2  3 rn/cf
     

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