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1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 256.24 SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE
1 2 ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
1 3 1. The department shall establish a school infrastructure
1 4 assistance program. The purpose of the program shall be to
1 5 provide financial assistance to school districts facing school
1 6 infrastructure needs which are determined to fall below the
1 7 median property tax infrastructure capacity per pupil for the
1 8 state. For the purposes of this section, "school
1 9 infrastructure" means activities initiated on or after July 1,
1 10 2002, as authorized in section 296.1 but does not include
1 11 those activities related to stadiums, bus barns, a home or
1 12 homes of a teacher or superintendent, procuring and improving
1 13 a site for an athletic field, or improving a site already
1 14 owned for an athletic field.
1 15 2. A school district shall be eligible to participate in
1 16 the school infrastructure assistance program if the school
1 17 district has imposed a local sales and services tax for school
1 18 infrastructure pursuant to chapter 422E which is in effect on
1 19 the program application date, and the district's property tax
1 20 infrastructure capacity per pupil, as defined in section
1 21 292.1, falls below the median property tax infrastructure
1 22 capacity per pupil calculated for each school district in the
1 23 state. A school district with a combined tax capacity, as
1 24 determined pursuant to subsection 3, which equals or exceeds
1 25 the median property tax infrastructure capacity per pupil for
1 26 the state shall not be eligible for assistance pursuant to
1 27 this section.
1 28 3. In order to determine the amount of funding which an
1 29 eligible school district may receive, the department shall
1 30 determine a combined tax capacity for each school district in
1 31 the state. The combined tax capacity shall equal the
1 32 district's property tax infrastructure capacity per pupil plus
1 33 the per pupil amount generated in the district by the local
1 34 sales and services tax for school infrastructure. An eligible
1 35 school district may receive an amount up to that amount
2 1 necessary to raise the district's combined tax capacity up to
2 2 the median property tax infrastructure capacity per pupil for
2 3 the state.
2 4 4. A school district wishing to participate in the school
2 5 infrastructure assistance program shall submit an application
2 6 to the department on a form developed by the department by
2 7 October 15 annually. In the event that the amount
2 8 appropriated annually to fund the program pursuant to section
2 9 256.25 is insufficient to raise all eligible applicant school
2 10 districts up to the median property tax infrastructure
2 11 capacity for the state, the department shall prorate
2 12 allocations from the fund to all eligible applicant school
2 13 districts.
2 14 Sec. 2. NEW SECTION. 256.25 SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE
2 15 ASSISTANCE PROGRAM – APPROPRIATION.
2 16 Notwithstanding section 8.57, subsection 5, paragraph "c",
2 17 there is appropriated annually from the rebuild Iowa
2 18 infrastructure fund created in section 8.57 to the department
2 19 of education the sum of thirty million dollars for the school
2 20 infrastructure assistance program. Notwithstanding section
2 21 8.33, moneys appropriated to the department for the school
2 22 infrastructure assistance fund shall not revert but shall
2 23 remain available for allocation in future years.
2 24 EXPLANATION
2 25 This bill provides for the creation of a school
2 26 infrastructure assistance program to be administered by the
2 27 department of education. The bill provides that the purpose
2 28 of the program shall be to supply financial assistance to
2 29 school districts facing school infrastructure needs which are
2 30 determined to fall below the median property tax
2 31 infrastructure capacity per pupil for the state. The bill
2 32 references Code section 296.1 regarding a definition of
2 33 "school infrastructure" for activities initiated on or after
2 34 July 1, 2002, but provides that school infrastructure shall
2 35 not include activities related to stadiums, bus barns, a home
3 1 or homes of a teacher or superintendent, procuring and
3 2 improving a site for an athletic field, or improving a site
3 3 already owned for an athletic field.
3 4 The bill provides that a school district shall be eligible
3 5 to participate in the school infrastructure assistance program
3 6 if the district has imposed a local sales and services tax for
3 7 school infrastructure which is in effect on the program
3 8 application date, and if the district's property tax
3 9 infrastructure capacity per pupil, as determined pursuant to
3 10 Code section 292.1, subsection 7, falls below the median
3 11 property tax infrastructure capacity per pupil calculated for
3 12 all school districts in the state. Code section 292.1,
3 13 subsection 7, provides that a school district's property tax
3 14 infrastructure capacity per pupil equals the sum of a school
3 15 district's levies under Code sections 298.2 and 298.18 if
3 16 imposed to the maximum extent permissible in a school budget
3 17 year, divided by a school district's basic enrollment for the
3 18 budget year.
3 19 The bill provides that to determine the amount of funding
3 20 which an eligible school district may receive, the department
3 21 shall determine a combined tax capacity for each school
3 22 district in the state. The bill provides that the combined
3 23 tax capacity shall equal a district's property tax
3 24 infrastructure capacity per pupil plus the per pupil amount
3 25 generated in the district by the local sales and services tax
3 26 for school infrastructure. The bill provides that an eligible
3 27 school district may receive an amount up to that necessary to
3 28 raise the district's combined tax capacity up to the median
3 29 property tax infrastructure capacity per pupil for the state.
3 30 The bill provides that a school district wishing to
3 31 participate in the school infrastructure assistance program
3 32 shall submit an application to the department on a form
3 33 developed by the department by October 15 annually, and
3 34 provides for proration of amounts appropriated for the program
3 35 in the event such amounts are insufficient to fully fund
4 1 allocations to all eligible applicant school districts. The
4 2 bill further provides that a school district with a combined
4 3 tax capacity which equals or exceeds the median property tax
4 4 infrastructure capacity per pupil for the state shall not be
4 5 eligible for assistance pursuant to the program.
4 6 The bill provides an annual appropriation from the rebuild
4 7 Iowa infrastructure fund to the department of education of $30
4 8 million to fund the program.
4 9 LSB 5520HH 79
4 10 rn/cf/24
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