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Senate Study Bill 3188

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 257.8, subsection 1, Code Supplement
  1  2 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    1.  STATE PERCENT OF GROWTH.  The state percent of growth
  1  4 for the budget year beginning July 1, 2001, is four percent.
  1  5 The state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July
  1  6 1, 2002, is four one percent.  The state percent of growth for
  1  7 each subsequent budget year shall be established by statute
  1  8 which shall be enacted within thirty days of the submission in
  1  9 the year preceding the base year of the governor's budget
  1 10 under section 8.21.  The establishment of the state percent of
  1 11 growth for a budget year shall be the only subject matter of
  1 12 the bill which enacts the state percent of growth for a budget
  1 13 year.
  1 14    Sec. 2.  Section 257.35, Code 2001, is amended to read as
  1 15 follows:
  1 16    257.35  AREA EDUCATION AGENCY PAYMENTS.
  1 17    1.  The department of management shall deduct the amounts
  1 18 calculated for special education support services, media
  1 19 services, and educational services for each school district
  1 20 from the state aid due to the district pursuant to this
  1 21 chapter and shall pay the amounts to the respective area
  1 22 education agencies on a monthly basis from September 15
  1 23 through June 15 during each school year.  The department of
  1 24 management shall notify each school district of the amount of
  1 25 state aid deducted for these purposes and the balance of state
  1 26 aid shall be paid to the district.  If a district does not
  1 27 qualify for state aid under this chapter in an amount
  1 28 sufficient to cover its amount due to the area education
  1 29 agency as calculated by the department of management, the
  1 30 school district shall pay the deficiency to the area education
  1 31 agency from other moneys received by the district, on a
  1 32 quarterly basis during each school year.
  1 33    2.  Notwithstanding subsection 1, the state aid for area
  1 34 education agencies and the portion of the combined district
  1 35 cost calculated for these agencies for each fiscal year of the
  2  1 fiscal period beginning July 1, 2002, and ending June 30,
  2  2 2004, shall be reduced by the department of management by
  2  3 seven million five hundred thousand dollars.  The reduction
  2  4 for each area education agency shall be equal to the reduction
  2  5 that the agency received in the fiscal year beginning July 1,
  2  6 2001.
  2  7    Sec. 3.  Section 257.37, Code 2001, is amended by adding
  2  8 the following new subsection:
  2  9    NEW SUBSECTION.  6.  For the budget years beginning July 1,
  2 10 2002, and July 1, 2003, notwithstanding the requirements of
  2 11 this section for determining the budgets and funding of media
  2 12 services and education services, an area education agency may,
  2 13 within the limits of the total of the funds provided for the
  2 14 budget years pursuant to section 257.35, expend for special
  2 15 education support services an amount that exceeds the payment
  2 16 for special education support services pursuant to section
  2 17 257.35 in order to maintain the level of required special
  2 18 education support services in the area education agency.
  2 19    Sec. 4.  2001 Iowa Acts, chapter 174, section 1, subsection
  2 20 1, is amended to read as follows:
  2 21    1.  Notwithstanding provisions to the contrary in sections
  2 22 99D.17 and 99F.11, and notwithstanding provisions to the
  2 23 contrary in section 8.57, subsection 5, paragraph "e", and
  2 24 following deposits in the general fund of the state, the
  2 25 vision Iowa fund created in section 12.72, and the school
  2 26 infrastructure fund created in section 12.82, pursuant to
  2 27 section 8.57, subsection 5, paragraph "e", for the designated
  2 28 fiscal years, the following moneys received pursuant to
  2 29 sections 99D.17 and 99F.11 shall be deposited in the endowment
  2 30 for Iowa's health account of the tobacco settlement trust fund
  2 31 created in section 12E.12 for the purposes specified in
  2 32 section 12E.12 for the endowment for Iowa's health account:  
  2 33 FY 2001-2002 ..................................... $ 80,000,000
  2 34 FY 2002-2003 ..................................... $ 75,000,000
  2 35 FY 2003-2004 ..................................... $ 70,000,000
  3  1 FY 2004-2005 ..................................... $ 70,000,000
  3  2 FY 2005-2006 ..................................... $ 70,000,000
  3  3 FY 2006-2007 ..................................... $ 70,000,000
  3  4    The total moneys received pursuant to sections 99D.17 and
  3  5 99F.11 in a fiscal year, in excess of the moneys received
  3  6 pursuant to sections 99D.17 and 99F.11 and deposited in the
  3  7 general fund of the state, the vision Iowa fund, the school
  3  8 infrastructure fund, and the tobacco settlement trust fund,
  3  9 shall be deposited in the rebuild Iowa infrastructure fund and
  3 10 shall be used as provided in section 8.57, notwithstanding
  3 11 section 8.60.
  3 12    For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2002, and ending June
  3 13 30, 2003, of the $75,000,000 to be deposited in the endowment
  3 14 for Iowa's health account of the tobacco settlement trust fund
  3 15 under this subsection, the first $20,000,000 is appropriated
  3 16 to the department of management to pay that part of foundation
  3 17 aid which represents the allowable growth amounts for all
  3 18 school districts.  An appropriation from the general fund of
  3 19 the state for foundation aid which is supplanted by the
  3 20 appropriation made in this subsection, shall be reduced by the
  3 21 amount of the appropriation which supplants it.
  3 22    Sec. 5.  STATE FOUNDATION AID APPROPRIATION.
  3 23    1.  Notwithstanding section 257.16, for the fiscal year
  3 24 beginning July 1, 2002, and ending June 30, 2003, there is
  3 25 appropriated from the general fund of the state to the
  3 26 department of education the following amount, or so much
  3 27 thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purpose
  3 28 designated:  
  3 29    For state foundation aid: ..................... $1,784,090,500
  3 30    If the amount appropriated in this section is less than the
  3 31 amount required pursuant to section 257.16, unnumbered
  3 32 paragraph 1, the difference shall be deducted from the
  3 33 payments to each school district in the same ratio that the
  3 34 budget enrollment of the school district for the budget year
  3 35 beginning July 1, 2002, bears to the total budget enrollment
  4  1 in the state for that budget year.
  4  2    2.  a.  There is appropriated from the Iowa economic
  4  3 emergency fund created in section 8.55 to the department of
  4  4 management for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2002, and
  4  5 ending June 30, 2003, the following amount, or so much thereof
  4  6 as is necessary, to be used for the purpose designated:
  4  7    For supplanting an equal amount from the appropriation made
  4  8 from the general fund of the state for the fiscal year
  4  9 beginning July 1, 2002, pursuant to section 257.16, to pay
  4 10 that part of foundation aid which represents the allowable
  4 11 growth amounts for all school districts:  
  4 12 .................................................. $ 25,000,000
  4 13    b.  The moneys appropriated in this subsection are declared
  4 14 to be appropriated for emergency expenditures as required in
  4 15 section 8.55, subsection 3, paragraph "a".
  4 16    c.  An appropriation from the general fund of the state,
  4 17 which is supplanted by an appropriation from the Iowa economic
  4 18 emergency fund made in this subsection, shall be reduced by
  4 19 the amount of the appropriation which supplants it.
  4 20    Sec. 6.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of
  4 21 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.  
  4 22                           EXPLANATION
  4 23    This bill provides for the establishment of a revised state
  4 24 percent of growth for the school budget year beginning July 1,
  4 25 2002.  The bill reduces the state percent of growth for the
  4 26 budget year beginning July 1, 2002, from 4 to 1 percent.
  4 27    The bill also provides that the state school foundation aid
  4 28 for area education agencies and the portion of the combined
  4 29 district cost calculated for these agencies for the fiscal
  4 30 years beginning July 1, 2002, and July 1, 2003, shall be
  4 31 reduced for each fiscal year by the department of management
  4 32 by $7,500,000.  The bill also provides that the amount of the
  4 33 reduction for each area education agency shall equal the
  4 34 reduction that each agency received in the fiscal year
  4 35 beginning July 1, 2001.  The bill additionally provides that
  5  1 for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2002, and July 1, 2003,
  5  2 an area education agency may, within the limits of the total
  5  3 of the funds provided to an area education agency pursuant to
  5  4 Code section 257.35, expend for special education support
  5  5 services an amount that exceeds the payment for special
  5  6 education support services pursuant to Code section 257.35 in
  5  7 order to maintain the level of required special education
  5  8 support services in the area education agency.
  5  9    Additionally, the bill provides that notwithstanding Code
  5 10 section 257.16, which provides a standing appropriation in an
  5 11 amount necessary to pay state foundation aid and supplementary
  5 12 aid, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2002, and ending
  5 13 June 30, 2003, $1,784,090,500 shall be appropriated from the
  5 14 general fund of the state to the department of education for
  5 15 this purpose.  The bill provides that if this appropriation is
  5 16 insufficient to fully fund state foundation aid and
  5 17 supplementary aid, the difference shall be deducted from the
  5 18 payments to each school district in the same ratio that the
  5 19 budget enrollment of the school district for the budget year
  5 20 beginning July 1, 2002, bears to the total budget enrollment
  5 21 in the state for the budget year.
  5 22    The bill appropriates $25 million of the funds appropriated
  5 23 from the Iowa economic emergency fund created in Code section
  5 24 8.55 to the department of management for the fiscal year
  5 25 beginning July 1, 2002, and ending June 30, 2003, to pay that
  5 26 part of foundation aid which represents the allowable growth
  5 27 amounts for all school districts.  The bill also appropriates
  5 28 $20 million of the funds deposited in the endowment for Iowa's
  5 29 health account of the tobacco settlement trust fund for the
  5 30 fiscal year beginning July 1, 2002, and ending June 30, 2003,
  5 31 to the department of management to pay that part of foundation
  5 32 aid which represents the allowable growth amounts for all
  5 33 school districts.  The bill provides that an appropriation
  5 34 from the general fund of the state, which is supplanted by an
  5 35 appropriation pursuant to the Iowa economic emergency fund or
  6  1 the endowment for Iowa's health account of the tobacco
  6  2 settlement trust fund pursuant to the bill, shall be reduced
  6  3 by the amount of the appropriation which supplants it.
  6  4    The bill takes effect upon enactment.  
  6  5 LSB 7140XC 79
  6  6 rn/cf/24.2
     

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