1. State percent of growth. The state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2000, is four percent. The state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2001, is four percent. The state percent of growth for each subsequent budget year shall be established by statute which shall be enacted within thirty days of the submission in the year preceding the base year of the governor's budget under section 8.21. The establishment of the state percent of growth for a budget year shall be the only subject matter of the bill which enacts the state percent of growth for a budget year.
2. Allowable growth calculation. The department of management shall calculate the regular program allowable growth for a budget year by multiplying the state percent of growth for the budget year by the regular program state cost per pupil for the base year and shall calculate the special education support services allowable growth for the budget year by multiplying the state percent of growth for the budget year by the special education support services state cost per pupil for the base year.
3. Alternate allowable growth--gifted and talented programs. Notwithstanding the calculation in subsection 2, the department of management shall calculate the regular program allowable growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 1999, by multiplying the state percent of growth for the budget year by the regular program state cost per pupil for the base year, and add to the resulting product thirty-eight dollars. For purposes of determining the amount of a budget adjustment as defined in section 257.14, for a school district which calculated allowable growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 1999, pursuant to this subsection, thirty-eight dollars shall be subtracted from the school district's regular program cost per pupil for the budget year beginning July 1, 1999, prior to determining the amount of the adjustment.
4. Alternate allowable growth--regular program state cost. A school district which calculated allowable growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 1999, pursuant to the provisions of subsection 3, shall calculate allowable growth pursuant to the provisions of subsection 2 for the school budget year beginning July 1, 2000, and succeeding budget years, utilizing a regular program state cost per pupil figure which incorporates the thirty-eight dollar increase in regular program allowable growth calculated for the budget year beginning July 1, 1999.
5. Combined allowable growth. The combined allowable growth per pupil for each school district is the sum of the regular program allowable growth per pupil and the special education support services allowable growth per pupil for the budget year, which may be modified as follows:
a. By the school budget review committee under section 257.31.
b. By the department of management under section 257.36.
6. Alternate allowable growth--definitions. For budget years beginning July 1, 2000, and subsequent budget years, references to the terms "allowable growth", "regular program state cost per pupil", and "regular program district cost per pupil" shall mean those terms as calculated for those school districts that calculated regular program allowable growth for the school budget year beginning July 1, 1999, with the additional thirty-eight dollars.
89 Acts, ch 135, § 8; 92 Acts, ch 1227, §15; 95 Acts, ch 11, §1; 96 Acts, ch 1001, §1; 98 Acts, ch 1005, § 1, 2; 99 Acts, ch 1, §1, 2; 99 Acts, ch 178, §2, 10; 2000 Acts, ch 1001, §1, 2
Referred to in § 257.2, 257.41
Subsections 3, 4, and 6 apply to computation of school aid for school budget years beginning on or after July 1, 1999; 99 Acts, ch 178, §10
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