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PAG LIN 1 1 Amend House File 755, as amended, passed, and 1 2 reprinted by the House, as follows: 1 3 #1. Page 13, by inserting after line 21, the 1 4 following: 1 5 "Sec. . Section 301.1, unnumbered paragraph 2, 1 6 Code 2001, is amended by striking the unnumbered 1 7 paragraph and inserting in lieu thereof the following: 1 8 Textbooks adopted and purchased by a school 1 9 district shall, to the extent funds are appropriated 1 10 by the general assembly, be made available to pupils 1 11 attending accredited nonpublic schools. The 1 12 department of education shall ascertain a maximum 1 13 annual amount a school district shall be required to 1 14 use for the purchase of textbooks for accredited 1 15 nonpublic schools. The amount shall be in the 1 16 proportion that the basic enrollment of an accredited 1 17 nonpublic school bears to the sum of the basic 1 18 enrollments of all participating accredited nonpublic 1 19 schools in the state for the budget year. An 1 20 accredited nonpublic school shall certify its actual 1 21 enrollment to the department of education by October 1 22 1, annually. By October 15, annually, the department 1 23 of education shall notify the board of directors of 1 24 each school district of the maximum amount of its 1 25 allocation that shall be made available for purchasing 1 26 nonsectarian, nonreligious textbooks for each of the 1 27 accredited nonpublic schools located within the school 1 28 district in accordance with this paragraph. For 1 29 purposes of this paragraph, an accredited nonpublic 1 30 school's enrollment count shall include only students 1 31 who are residents of Iowa. The costs of providing 1 32 textbooks to accredited nonpublic schools as provided 1 33 in this paragraph shall not be included in the 1 34 computation of district cost under chapter 257, but 1 35 shall be shown in the budget as an expense from 1 36 miscellaneous income. Textbook expenditures made in 1 37 accordance with this paragraph shall be kept on file 1 38 in the school district. As used in this paragraph, 1 39 "textbooks" means books and loose-leaf or bound 1 40 manuals, systems of reusable instructional materials 1 41 or combinations of books and supplementary 1 42 instructional materials which convey information to 1 43 the student or otherwise contribute to the learning 1 44 process, or electronic textbooks, including but not 1 45 limited to computer software, applications using 1 46 computer-assisted instruction, interactive videodisc, 1 47 and other computer courseware and magnetic media." 1 48 #2. Page 16, by inserting after line 11, the 1 49 following: 1 50 "Sec. . Section 301.30, Code 2001, is 2 1 repealed." 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 5 TOM FLYNN 2 6 KITTY REHBERG 2 7 JERRY BEHN 2 8 KEN VEENSTRA 2 9 JEFF LAMBERTI 2 10 HF 755.716 79 2 11 mg/cls
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