Senate Amendment 3257
PAG LIN
1 1 Amend House File 816, as amended, passed, and
1 2 reprinted by the House, as follows:
1 3 #1. Page 31, by inserting before line 15 the
1 4 following:
1 5 <Sec. . Section 257.17, Code 2005, is amended
1 6 to read as follows:
1 7 257.17 AID REDUCTION FOR EARLY SCHOOL STARTS.
1 8 State aid payments made pursuant to section 257.16
1 9 for a fiscal year shall be reduced by one one=
1 10 hundred=eightieth for each day of that fiscal year for
1 11 which the school district begins school before the
1 12 earliest starting date specified in section 279.10,
1 13 subsection 1. However, this section does not apply to
1 14 a school district that has received approval from the
1 15 director of the department of education under section
1 16 279.10, subsection 4, to commence classes for
1 17 regularly established elementary and secondary schools
1 18 in advance of the starting date established in section
1 19 279.10, subsection 1.>
1 20 #2. Page 33, by inserting after line 23 the
1 21 following:
1 22 <Sec. . Section 279.10, subsection 1, Code
1 23 2005, is amended to read as follows:
1 24 1. The school year shall begin on the first day of
1 25 July and each regularly established elementary and
1 26 secondary school shall begin no sooner than a day
1 27 during the calendar week in which the first day of
1 28 September falls August 22 but no later than the first
1 29 Monday in December. However, if the first day of
1 30 September falls on a Sunday, school may begin on a day
1 31 during the calendar week which immediately precedes
1 32 the first day of September. School shall continue for
1 33 at least one hundred eighty days, except as provided
1 34 in subsection 3, and may be maintained during the
1 35 entire calendar year. However, if the board of
1 36 directors of a district extends the school calendar
1 37 because inclement weather caused the district to
1 38 temporarily close school during the regular school
1 39 calendar, the district may excuse a graduating senior
1 40 who has met district or school requirements for
1 41 graduation from attendance during the extended school
1 42 calendar. A school corporation may begin employment
1 43 of personnel for in=service training and development
1 44 purposes before the date to begin elementary and
1 45 secondary school.
1 46 Sec. . Section 279.10, subsection 4, Code 2005,
1 47 is amended by striking the subsection.>
1 48 #3. By renumbering as necessary.
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2 2 JOHN PUTNEY
2 3 HF 816.724 81
2 4 kh/gg/2451
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