Senate File 424 S-3097 Amend Senate File 424 as follows: 1 1. By striking everything after the enacting clause 2 and inserting: 3 < Section 1. DISTRICT-TO-COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROGRAM 4 AND FACILITIES SHARING PILOT PROGRAM. A consortium of 5 not less than four school districts and a community 6 college may request approval from the department of 7 education for a district-to-community college program 8 and facilities sharing pilot program. The pilot 9 program shall include one community college whose 10 average annual increase in joint enrollment over the 11 fiscal period beginning July 1, 2005, and ending June 12 30, 2009, was between 20 and 21 percent, and not less 13 than four contiguous school districts, each of which 14 had a kindergarten through grade twelve certified 15 enrollment for the 2009-2010 school year of not less 16 than six hundred pupils nor more than eight hundred 17 pupils. All participants in the consortium shall 18 be located within thirty miles of two cities and a 19 state university. Notwithstanding the requirement 20 that a school district have exclusive jurisdiction 21 in all matters within the territory of the school 22 district under section 274.1, the limitation on joint 23 buildings under section 28E.41, and the expenditure 24 requirements of section 298.3, the participating school 25 district boards may enter into joint contracts for 26 the construction or lease of buildings, using funds 27 accumulated under the physical plant and equipment 28 levy in section 298.2. Buildings constructed or 29 leased pursuant to this section shall be used primarily 30 for providing community college courses under a 31 district-to-community college sharing agreement entered 32 into by each of the school districts and the community 33 college pursuant to section 257.11, subsection 3. > 34 2. Title page, by striking lines 1 and 2 and 35 inserting < An Act establishing a district-to-community 36 college program and facilities sharing pilot program. > 37 ______________________________ BRIAN SCHOENJAHN -1- SF424.1436 (3) 84 md/sc 1/ 1 #1. #2.