Amend Senate File 451 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: 
   Section 1.  Section 257.31, subsection 5, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   If a district has unusual circumstances, creating an unusual need for additional funds, including but not limited to the circumstances enumerated in paragraphs “a” through “n” “o”, the committee may grant supplemental aid to the district from any funds appropriated to the department of education for the use of the school budget review committee for the purposes of this subsection. The school budget review committee shall review a school district’s unexpended fund balance prior to any decision regarding unusual finance circumstances. Such aid shall be miscellaneous income and shall not be included in district cost. In addition to or as an alternative to granting supplemental aid the committee may establish a modified allowable growth for the district by increasing its allowable growth. The school budget review committee shall review a school district’s unspent balance prior to any decision to increase modified allowable growth under this subsection.
   Sec. 2.  Section 257.31, subsection 5, Code 2011, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  o.  Unusual need for additional funds for returning dropout and dropout prevention programming pursuant to section 257.41, subsection 1.>
   2.  Page 1, line 5, before<The> by inserting <a.>
   3.  Page 1, after line 17 by inserting: 
   <b.  If the board of directors of a school district determines that funding provided under paragraph“a” is insufficient to meet the returning dropout and dropout prevention programming needs of the school district, the board may submit a request for additional modified allowable growth to the school budget review committee under section 257.31, subsection 5, paragraph “o”.>
   4.  Page 1, by striking lines 21 through 35 and inserting: 
   <a.  Salary and benefits for instructional staff, instructional support staff, and school-based youth services staff who are working with students who are participating in dropout prevention programs, alternative programs, and alternative schools if the staff person’s time is dedicated to working with returning dropouts or students who are deemed, at any time during the school year, to be at risk of dropping out, in order to provide services beyond those which are provided by the school district to students who are not identified as at risk of dropping out. However, if the staff person works part-time with students who are participating in returning dropout and dropout prevention programs, alternative programs, and alternative schools and has another unrelated staff assignment, only the portion of the staff person’s time that is related to the returning dropout and dropout prevention program, alternative program, or alternative school may be charged to the program.>
   5.  Page 2, after line 13 by inserting: 
   <d.  Up to five percent of the total budgeted amount received pursuant to subsection 1, paragraph “a”, may be used for purposes of providing district-wide or building-wide returning dropout and dropout prevention programming targeted to students who are not deemed at risk of dropping out.>
   6.  By renumbering as necessary.

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STEVEN SODDERS