H-1194

   Amend House File 754 as follows:
   1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
   <Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  256.20  School district pandemic recovery competitive grant program.
   1.  There is established a school district pandemic recovery competitive grant program to assist school districts with COVID-19 pandemic recovery efforts.
   2.  The department shall establish a grant application and selection criteria, including but not limited to a method for prioritizing grant applications submitted by school districts.
   3.  Moneys awarded to a school district pursuant to this section may be expended for student mental health services, academic support and remediation services, before- and after-school services, preschool services, or reading recovery services.
   4.  The department shall make every effort to award grants geographically throughout the state.
   5.  Grant funding may be awarded for one or more fiscal years as proposed in an application submitted by a school district and approved by the department.
   6.  This section is repealed July 1, 2025.
   Sec. 2.  DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION —— SCHOOL DISTRICT COVID-19 PANDEMIC RECOVERY EFFORTS.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the department of education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2022, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
   For implementation and purposes of the school district pandemic recovery competitive grant program established pursuant to section 256.20, if enacted:
   ...................................................................... $100,000,000

   Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys received by the department pursuant to this section that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available for expenditure for the purposes specified in this section for the following fiscal year.
   Sec. 3.  DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION —— SCHOOL DISTRICT COVID-19 PANDEMIC RECOVERY EFFORTS.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the department of education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2023, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
   For purposes of the school district pandemic recovery competitive grant program established pursuant to section 256.20, if enacted:
   ...................................................................... $ 50,000,000

   Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys received by the department pursuant to this section that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available for expenditure for the purposes specified in this section for the following fiscal year.
   Sec. 4.  DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION -- SCHOOL DISTRICT COVID-19 PANDEMIC RECOVERY EFFORTS.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the state to the department of education for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2024, the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated:
   For purposes of the school district pandemic recovery competitive grant program established pursuant to section 256.20, if enacted:
   ...................................................................... $ 50,000,000

   Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys received by the department pursuant to this section that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available for expenditure for the purposes specified in this section for the following fiscal year.>
   2.  Title page, by striking lines 1 and 2 and inserting <An Act establishing a school district pandemic recovery competitive grant program in the department of education and making appropriations.>

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HUNTER of Polk