Amend Senate File 424 as follows:
   1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
   Section 1.  DISTRICT-TO-COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROGRAM AND FACILITIES SHARING PILOT PROGRAM.  A consortium of not less than four school districts and a community college may request approval from the department of education for a district-to-community college program and facilities sharing pilot program. The pilot program shall include one community college whose average annual increase in joint enrollment over the fiscal period beginning July 1, 2005, and ending June 30, 2009, was between 20 and 21 percent, and not less than four contiguous school districts, each of which had a kindergarten through grade twelve certified enrollment for the 2009-2010 school year of not less than six hundred pupils nor more than eight hundred pupils. All participants in the consortium shall be located within thirty miles of two cities and a state university. Notwithstanding the requirement that a school district have exclusive jurisdiction in all matters within the territory of the school district under section 274.1, the limitation on joint buildings under section 28E.41, and the expenditure requirements of section 298.3, the participating school district boards may enter into joint contracts for the construction or lease of buildings, using funds accumulated under the physical plant and equipment levy in section 298.2. Buildings constructed or leased pursuant to this section shall be used primarily for providing community college courses under a district-to-community college sharing agreement entered into by each of the school districts and the community college pursuant to section 257.11, subsection 3.>
   2.  Title page, by striking lines 1 and 2 and inserting <An Act establishing a district-to-community college program and facilities sharing pilot program.>

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BRIAN SCHOENJAHN