House Amendment 1657


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend the amendment, H=1645, to the Senate
     1  2 amendment, H=1635, to House File 816, as amended,
     1  3 passed, and reprinted by the House, as follows:
     1  4 #1.  Page 24, by inserting after line 44, the
     1  5 following:
     1  6    <Sec.    .  Section 257.31, subsection 17,
     1  7 paragraph a, Code 2005, is amended to read as follows:
     1  8    a.  If a district's average transportation costs
     1  9 per pupil exceed the state average transportation
     1 10 costs per pupil determined under paragraph "c" by one
     1 11 hundred fifty percent, the committee may shall grant
     1 12 transportation assistance aid to the district in an
     1 13 amount up to, but not exceeding, fifty cents of
     1 14 transportation assistance for each dollar by which the
     1 15 district's average transportation costs per pupil
     1 16 exceed the state average transportation costs per
     1 17 pupil as determined under paragraph "c".  Such aid
     1 18 shall be miscellaneous income and shall not be
     1 19 included in district cost.
     1 20    Sec.    .  Section 257.31, subsection 17, Code
     1 21 2005, is amended by adding the following new
     1 22 paragraphs:
     1 23    NEW PARAGRAPH.  e.  There is appropriated from the
     1 24 general fund of the state to the committee, for the
     1 25 fiscal year beginning July 1, 2005, and each
     1 26 succeeding fiscal year, up to eight million seven
     1 27 hundred sixty=four thousand dollars for transportation
     1 28 assistance aid to school districts as provided in this
     1 29 subsection, which shall supplement, not supplant, the
     1 30 moneys appropriated pursuant to paragraph "d".
     1 31    NEW PARAGRAPH.  f.  The committee shall adopt rules
     1 32 pursuant to chapter 17A for granting transportation
     1 33 assistance aid and for otherwise administering this
     1 34 subsection.>
     1 35 #2.  By renumbering, redesignating, and correcting
     1 36 internal references as necessary.
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     1 40 THOMAS of Clayton
     1 41 HF 816.329 81
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