H-1343

   Amend Senate File 475, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  Page 7, by striking lines 5 through 7 and inserting: 
   <NEW PARAGRAPH.  c.  (1)  For the school year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2018, the department of education shall establish a pilot program in which, notwithstanding paragraph “b”, subparagraph (1), not more than two school districts, located in the counties of Clarke, Lucas, Marion, Decatur, or Wayne, that otherwise meet the requirements of this section, may enter into a sharing>
   2.  Page 7, line 16, after <pupils.> by inserting <The department shall develop an application procedure and criteria for the approval of applications submitted under this paragraph. The department shall submit to the general assembly by December 1, 2019, a report summarizing the results of the pilot project and including the department’s findings and recommendations.
   (2)  This paragraph “c” is repealed July 1, 2020.>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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MASCHER of Johnson