House Journal: Page 1535: Wednesday, April 25, 2001
Senate File 203, a bill for an act extending the regular program
district cost guarantee for school districts, and providing an effective
date, with report of committee recommending amendment and
passage, was taken up for consideration.
Brunkhorst of Bremer offered amendment H-1614 filed by the
committee on education as follows:
H-1614
1 Amend Senate File 203, as passed by the Senate, as
2 follows:
3 1. By striking everything after the enacting
4 clause and inserting the following:
5 "Section 1. Section 257.3, subsection 2, Code
6 2001, is amended to read as follows:
7 2. TAX FOR REORGANIZED AND DISSOLVED DISTRICTS.
8 Notwithstanding subsection 1, a reorganized school
9 district shall cause a foundation property tax of four
10 dollars and forty cents per thousand dollars of
11 assessed valuation to be levied on all taxable
12 property which, in the year preceding a
13 reorganization, was within a school district affected
14 by the reorganization as defined in section 275.1, or
15 in the year preceding a dissolution was a part of a
16 school district that dissolved if the dissolution
17 proposal has been approved by the director of the
18 department of education pursuant to section 275.55.
19 In the year preceding the reorganization or
20 dissolution, the school district affected by the
21 reorganization or the school district that dissolved
22 must have had a certified enrollment of fewer than six
23 hundred in order for the four-dollar-and-forty-cent
24 levy to apply. In succeeding school years, the
25 foundation property tax levy on that portion shall be
26 increased twenty cents per year until it reaches the
27 rate of to the rate of four dollars and ninety cents
28 per thousand dollars of assessed valuation the first
29 succeeding year, five dollars and fifteen cents per
30 thousand dollars of assessed valuation the second
31 succeeding year, and five dollars and forty cents per
32 thousand dollars of assessed valuation the third
33 succeeding year and each year thereafter.
34 For purposes of this section, a reorganized school
35 district is one which absorbed absorbs at least thirty
36 percent of the enrollment of the school district
37 affected by a reorganization or dissolved during a
38 dissolution and in which action to bring about a
39 reorganization or dissolution was initiated by a vote
40 of the board of directors or jointly by the affected
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