Senate Amendment 5113
PAG LIN
1 1 Amend Senate File 2288 as follows:
1 2 #1. Page 5, after line 27 by inserting:
1 3 <Sec. ___. Section 257.6, subsection 1, paragraph
1 4 a, subparagraph (5), Code Supplement 2009, is amended
1 5 to read as follows:
1 6 (5) Resident pupils receiving competent private
1 7 instruction from a licensed practitioner provided
1 8 through a public school district pursuant to chapter
1 9 299A shall be counted as three=tenths of one pupil.
1 10 Revenues received by a school district attributed to a
1 11 school district's weighted enrollment pursuant to this
1 12 paragraph shall be expended for the purpose for which
1 13 the weighting was assigned under this paragraph. If
1 14 the school district determines that the expenditures
1 15 associated with providing competent private instruction
1 16 pursuant to chapter 299A are in excess of the
1 17 revenue attributed to the school district's weighted
1 18 enrollment for such instruction in accordance with this
1 19 subparagraph, the school district may submit a request
1 20 to the school budget review committee for modified
1 21 allowable growth in accordance with section 257.31,
1 22 subsection 5, paragraph "n". A home school assistance
1 23 program shall not provide moneys Moneys received
1 24 pursuant to this subparagraph, nor resources paid for
1 25 with moneys received pursuant to this subparagraph, to
1 26 parents or students utilizing the program shall be used
1 27 as provided in section 299A.12.>
1 28 #2. Page 17, after line 35 by inserting:
1 29 <Sec. ___. NEW SECTION. 299A.12 Home school
1 30 assistance program.
1 31 1. The board of directors of a school district
1 32 may expend moneys received pursuant to section 257.6,
1 33 subsection 1, paragraph "a", subparagraph (5), for
1 34 purposes of providing a home school assistance program
1 35 to provide instruction outside the basic educational
1 36 program provided to regularly enrolled students by the
1 37 school district.
1 38 2. Purposes for which a school district may expend
1 39 funds received pursuant to section 257.6, subsection 1,
1 40 paragraph "a", subparagraph (5), shall include but not
1 41 be limited to the following:
1 42 a. Instruction and assisting parents with
1 43 instruction.
1 44 b. Student and teaching=parent support services and
1 45 staff support services.
1 46 c. Salary and benefits for the supervising teacher
1 47 of the home school assistance program students. If the
1 48 teacher is a part=time home school assistance program
1 49 teacher and a part=time regular classroom teacher,
1 50 funds received pursuant to section 257.6, subsection
2 1 1, paragraph "a", subparagraph (5), may be used only
2 2 for the portion of time in which the teacher is a home
2 3 school assistance program teacher.
2 4 d. Salary and benefits for clerical, office, and
2 5 administrative staff of the home school assistance
2 6 program. If the staff members are shared with other
2 7 programs or functions within the district, funds
2 8 received pursuant to section 257.6, subsection 1,
2 9 paragraph "a", subparagraph (5), shall only be expended
2 10 for the portion of time spent providing the home school
2 11 assistance program services.
2 12 e. Staff development for the home school assistance
2 13 program teacher.
2 14 f. Travel for the home school assistance program
2 15 teacher.
2 16 g. Resources, materials, software, and supplies,
2 17 and purchased services that meet the following
2 18 criteria:
2 19 (1) Are necessary to provide the services of home
2 20 school assistance.
2 21 (2) Are retained as the possessions of the school
2 22 district for its prekindergarten through grade twelve
2 23 home school assistance program.
2 24 3. Purposes for which a school district shall
2 25 not expend funds received pursuant to section 257.6,
2 26 subsection 1, paragraph "a", subparagraph (5) include
2 27 but are not limited to the following:
2 28 a. Indirect costs or use charges.
2 29 b. Operational or maintenance costs in addition to
2 30 the cost of maintaining school district facilities.
2 31 c. Capital expenditures other than equipment or
2 32 facility acquisition or lease expenditures.
2 33 d. Student transportation except in cases of home
2 34 school assistance program=approved field trips or other
2 35 educational activities.
2 36 e. Administrative costs other than the cost
2 37 of employing an administrator for the home school
2 38 assistance program.
2 39 f. Dual enrollment program costs and postsecondary
2 40 enrollment options program costs.
2 41 g. Any other expenditures not directly related to
2 42 providing the home school assistance program. A home
2 43 school assistance program shall not provide moneys to
2 44 parents or students utilizing the program.>
NANCY J. BOETTGER
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