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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