Senate Amendment 3053


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend Senate File 245 as follows:
     1  2 #1.  Page 2, by inserting after line 6 the
     1  3 following:
     1  4    <Sec.    .  Section 257.17, Code 2005, is amended
     1  5 to read as follows:
     1  6    257.17  AID REDUCTION FOR EARLY SCHOOL STARTS.
     1  7    State aid payments made pursuant to section 257.16
     1  8 for a fiscal year shall be reduced by one one=
     1  9 hundred=eightieth for each day of that fiscal year for
     1 10 which the school district begins school before the
     1 11 earliest starting date specified in section 279.10,
     1 12 subsection 1.  However, this section does not apply to
     1 13 a school district that has received approval from the
     1 14 director of the department of education under section
     1 15 279.10, subsection 4, to commence classes for
     1 16 regularly established elementary and secondary schools
     1 17 in advance of the starting date established in section
     1 18 279.10, subsection 1.
     1 19    Sec.    .  Section 279.10, subsection 1, Code 2005,
     1 20 is amended to read as follows:
     1 21    1.  The school year shall begin on the first day of
     1 22 July and each regularly established elementary and
     1 23 secondary school shall begin no sooner than a day
     1 24 during the calendar week in which the first day of
     1 25 September falls August 22 but no later than the first
     1 26 Monday in December.  However, if the first day of
     1 27 September falls on a Sunday, school may begin on a day
     1 28 during the calendar week which immediately precedes
     1 29 the first day of September.  School shall continue for
     1 30 at least one hundred eighty days, except as provided
     1 31 in subsection 3, and may be maintained during the
     1 32 entire calendar year.  However, if the board of
     1 33 directors of a district extends the school calendar
     1 34 because inclement weather caused the district to
     1 35 temporarily close school during the regular school
     1 36 calendar, the district may excuse a graduating senior
     1 37 who has met district or school requirements for
     1 38 graduation from attendance during the extended school
     1 39 calendar.  A school corporation may begin employment
     1 40 of personnel for in=service training and development
     1 41 purposes before the date to begin elementary and
     1 42 secondary school.
     1 43    Sec.    .  Section 279.10, subsection 4, Code 2005,
     1 44 is amended by striking the subsection.>
     1 45 #2.  Title page, by striking line 1 and inserting
     1 46 the following:  <An Act relating to requirements for
     1 47 school districts and support for school districts from
     1 48 the department of education, including changing the
     1 49 school start date and eliminating authorization for a
     1 50 school district to request approval for an earlier
     2  1 start date,>.
     2  2 #3.  By renumbering as necessary.
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     2  6 JOHN PUTNEY
     2  7 SF 245.702 81
     2  8 kh/gg/2324

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