Senate Amendment 3139


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend House File 740, as amended, passed, and
     1  2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
     1  3 #1.  Page 10, by inserting after line 24 the
     1  4 following:
     1  5    <Sec.    .  Section 301.1, subsection 2, Code 2005,
     1  6 is amended to read as follows:
     1  7    2.  Textbooks adopted and purchased by a school
     1  8 district shall, to the extent funds are appropriated
     1  9 by the general assembly, be made available to pupils
     1 10 attending accredited nonpublic schools upon request of
     1 11 the pupil or the pupil's parent under comparable terms
     1 12 as made available to pupils attending public schools.
     1 13 If the general assembly appropriates moneys for
     1 14 purposes of making textbooks available to accredited
     1 15 nonpublic school pupils, the department of education
     1 16 shall ascertain the amount available to a school
     1 17 district for the purchase of nonsectarian,
     1 18 nonreligious textbooks for pupils attending accredited
     1 19 nonpublic schools.  The amount shall be in the
     1 20 proportion that the basic enrollment of a
     1 21 participating accredited nonpublic school bears to the
     1 22 sum of the basic enrollments of all participating
     1 23 accredited nonpublic schools in the state for the
     1 24 budget year.  For purposes of this section, a
     1 25 "participating accredited nonpublic school" means an
     1 26 accredited nonpublic school that submits a written
     1 27 request on behalf of the school's pupils in accordance
     1 28 with this subsection, and that certifies its actual
     1 29 enrollment to the department of education by October
     1 30 1, annually.  By October 15, annually, the department
     1 31 of education shall certify to the director of the
     1 32 department of administrative services the annual
     1 33 amount to be paid to each school district, and the
     1 34 director of the department of administrative services
     1 35 shall draw warrants payable to school districts in
     1 36 accordance with this subsection.  For purposes of this
     1 37 subsection, an accredited nonpublic school's
     1 38 enrollment count shall include only students who are
     1 39 residents of Iowa.  The costs of providing textbooks
     1 40 to accredited nonpublic school pupils as provided in
     1 41 this subsection shall not be included in the
     1 42 computation of district cost under chapter 257, but
     1 43 shall be shown in the budget as an expense from
     1 44 miscellaneous income.  Textbook expenditures made in
     1 45 accordance with this subsection shall be kept on file
     1 46 in the school district.  Textbooks made available by a
     1 47 school district to pupils attending accredited
     1 48 nonpublic schools in accordance with this subsection
     1 49 are not to be the property of the school district.>
     1 50 #2.  Title page 1, line 21, by inserting after the
     2  1 word <requirements,> the following:  <establishing
     2  2 that textbooks made available to accredited nonpublic
     2  3 school pupils are not school district property,>.
     2  4 #3.  By renumbering as necessary.
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     2  8 NANCY BOETTGER
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     2 12 DAVE MULDER
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     2 27 HF 740.202 81
     2 28 kh/sh/2392

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