House Journal: Page 2255: Tuesday, June 3, 2003
For the above reasons, I respectfully disapprove these items in accordance with
Amendment IV of the Amendments of 1968 to the Constitution of the State of Iowa.
All other items in Senate File 452 are hereby approved as this date.
Sincerely,
Thomas J. Vilsack
Governor
May 30, 2003
The Honorable Chester Culver
Secretary of State
State Capitol Building
L O C A L
Dear Mr. Secretary:
I hereby transmit Senate File 453, an Act relating to state and local government
financial and regulatory matters, making and reducing appropriations, providing a fee,
increasing civil penalties, and providing applicability and effective dates.
I hereby approve Senate File 453 on this date with the following exceptions, which I
hereby disapprove.
I am unable to approve the designated portions of Section 31, subsection 1. These
items deal with the allocation of the reduction in appropriations to the three Regent
universities. It is important that the Board of Regents have the complete flexibility in
making these reductions across their appropriations.
I am unable to approve the item designated as Section 31, subsection 2. This
subsection sets up a legislative interim committee study on a policy option of levying
charges for capital assets against all state agencies. I have previously stated that I do
not support this idea and, therefore, do not support the study.
I am unable to approve the item designated as Section 38 in its entirety. This
section requires the Department of Education to establish a task force to conduct
several studies regarding the structure, funding of area education agencies and the
delivery of media services, educational services, and special education services. The
section also requires a study of special education, including identification and
remediation procedures, the early intervention block grant program, intensive
instruction and tutoring, and reading instruction.
These studies would duplicate work already completed and are unnecessary.
Thanks to the cooperative efforts of area education agencies, school districts, and the
department of education studies have already been undertaken and recommendations
for improvement have been implemented. In addition an accreditation process has
been established improving accountability and the efficient and quality services. One
third of the AEAs are in the process of merging next year and this will create
additional efficiencies. I agree that resources needed for special education requires
special attention and thus I am recommending that the department of education
establish a task force to review special education finance.
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