House File 532 S-3118 Amend House File 532, as amended, passed, and reprinted by 1 the House, as follows: 2 1. By striking everything after the enacting clause and 3 inserting: 4 < Section 1. QUALIFIED INSTRUCTION FUNDING SUPPLEMENT FOR 5 FY 2021-2022 —— APPROPRIATION. 6 1. a. For the school budget year beginning July 1, 7 2021, and ending June 30, 2022, each brick-and-mortar public 8 school district shall receive a qualified instruction funding 9 supplement. Each school district’s qualified instruction 10 funding supplement shall be in an amount calculated by the 11 department of education equal to the school district’s 12 enrollment served multiplied by the school district’s qualified 13 instruction factor. 14 b. For purposes of this section: 15 (1) “Enrollment served” means that portion of the basic 16 enrollment of the school district, as determined under section 17 257.6, subsection 1, paragraph “a”, subparagraphs (1), (3), 18 (4), (7), and (8), for the budget year beginning July 1, 2020, 19 minus the number of students under section 282.18 for which 20 the school district was the district of residence, plus the 21 number of students under section 282.18 for which the school 22 was the receiving district, and excluding each pupil for which 23 the portion of the pupil’s instruction received from the school 24 district was provided by a full-time remote learning program 25 offered by the school district. 26 (2) “Qualified instruction factor” means an amount equal 27 to sixty dollars multiplied by the quotient of the school 28 district’s total qualified instruction days divided by ninety. 29 (3) “Total qualified instruction days” means the sum of the 30 number of school days during the period beginning July 1, 2020, 31 and ending January 29, 2021, but not exceeding ninety days, 32 that the school district offered at least one of the following: 33 (a) Full-time in-person instruction. 34 (b) Hybrid learning or remote learning in accordance with 35 -1- HF532.1766 (2) 89 md/jh 1/ 5 #1.

or under an approved waiver from the department of education 1 pursuant to the requirements of 2020 Iowa Acts, chapter 2 1107; section 279.10; the governor’s proclamation of a public 3 health disaster emergency issued July 24, 2020; or subsequent 4 applicable proclamations of a public health disaster emergency 5 issued by the governor pursuant to section 29C.6 and related 6 to COVID-19. 7 (c) (i) For school days between August 10, 2020, and 8 January 29, 2021, instruction primarily through remote learning 9 or hybrid learning, as the direct result of damage to a school 10 attendance center caused by severe weather on or about August 11 10, 2020, for which a proclamation of disaster emergency was 12 issued by the governor. 13 (ii) In addition, for school days between August 10, 2020, 14 and January 29, 2021, each day the school district was unable 15 to provide in-person instruction, remote learning, or hybrid 16 learning as the direct result of damage to a school attendance 17 center caused by severe weather on or about August 10, 2020, 18 for which a proclamation of disaster emergency was issued by 19 the governor, and that day was previously scheduled as an 20 instructional day as part of the school district’s calendar 21 approved by the school district’s board of directors, shall be 22 counted as a qualified instruction day. 23 2. Each school district shall pay to the school district’s 24 area education agency a portion of the school district’s 25 qualified instruction funding supplement. The amount to be 26 paid to the area education agency shall be an amount equal to 27 the product of one dollar multiplied by the school district’s 28 enrollment served, but not to exceed the total amount of the 29 school district’s qualified instruction funding supplement. 30 3. The qualified instruction funding supplement shall be 31 miscellaneous income, shall be deposited in the general fund of 32 the school district, shall not be included in district cost, 33 and, except as provided in subsection 2, shall be used only for 34 purposes for which a school district may use funds received 35 -2- HF532.1766 (2) 89 md/jh 2/ 5

from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief 1 Fund under the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic 2 Security Act, Pub. L. No. 116-136, or the federal American 3 Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Pub. L. No. 117-2. 4 4. There is appropriated from the general fund of the state 5 to the department of education for the fiscal year beginning 6 July 1, 2021, and ending June 30, 2022, an amount necessary, 7 but not to exceed twenty-seven million two hundred thousand 8 dollars to be used for the payment of qualified instruction 9 funding supplement payments under this section. If the amount 10 appropriated under this subsection is insufficient to pay 11 in full all qualified instruction funding supplements, the 12 department of education shall prorate such supplement amounts. 13 The proration of funding amounts under this subsection shall 14 not, however, reduce the portion of the funding supplement 15 amount required to be paid to the area education agencies under 16 subsection 2. 17 5. If requested by the department of education, each school 18 district in the state shall provide to the department of 19 education all necessary information in order for the department 20 of education to determine the school district’s qualified 21 instruction funding supplement amount. 22 Sec. 2. PRESCHOOL MODIFIED SUPPLEMENTAL AMOUNT —— SCHOOL 23 BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE. 24 1. Notwithstanding section 256C.4, subsection 1, paragraph 25 “f”, and any provision of section 257.31 to the contrary, if 26 fifty percent of a school district’s actual enrollment of 27 eligible students in preschool programming provided by the 28 school district within the meaning of section 256C.5 on October 29 1, 2021, is greater than the preschool budget enrollment 30 determined under section 256C.5 for the budget year beginning 31 July 1, 2021, the school district may apply to the school 32 budget review committee for a modified supplemental amount for 33 the budget year beginning July 1, 2021. An approved modified 34 supplemental amount under this section shall not exceed an 35 -3- HF532.1766 (2) 89 md/jh 3/ 5

amount equal to the product of the regular program state 1 cost per pupil for the budget year beginning July 1, 2021, 2 multiplied by the difference of fifty percent of a school 3 district’s actual enrollment of eligible students in preschool 4 programming provided by the school district on October 1, 2021, 5 minus the preschool budget enrollment determined under section 6 256C.5 for the budget year beginning July 1, 2021. 7 2. The school budget review committee shall review a school 8 district’s unexpended preschool fund balance for the budget 9 year ending June 30, 2021, when deciding whether to grant a 10 modified supplemental amount request under this section. For 11 a school district with an unexpended preschool fund balance 12 that is equal to or less than twenty-five percent of the school 13 district’s preschool foundation aid under section 256C.5 14 for the budget year beginning July 1, 2020, the modified 15 supplemental amount shall be granted. For a school district 16 with an unexpended preschool fund balance that is greater 17 than twenty-five percent of the school district’s preschool 18 foundation aid under section 256C.5 for the budget year 19 beginning July 1, 2020, the modified supplemental amount may 20 be granted. 21 3. A modified supplemental amount granted under this 22 section must be used for the purposes of chapter 256C, 23 including amounts passed through to a community-based provider. 24 4. Amounts received as the result of a modified supplemental 25 amount granted under this section shall be eligible for 26 transfer to a school district’s flexibility account under 27 section 298A.2, subsection 2, and, notwithstanding section 28 256C.4, subsection 1, paragraph “e”, a school district that 29 is granted a modified supplemental amount under this section 30 shall not be eligible to transfer any preschool foundation 31 aid that remains unexpended and unobligated at the end of the 32 fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, to the school district’s 33 flexibility account under section 298A.2, subsection 2. 34 5. Modified supplemental amounts granted under this section 35 -4- HF532.1766 (2) 89 md/jh 4/ 5

shall be subject to available funding and be funded solely 1 through aid awarded by the school budget review committee from 2 funds made available to the school budget review committee for 3 purposes of this section. If amounts made available to the 4 school budget review committee for purposes of this section are 5 insufficient to fund all modified supplemental amounts granted 6 under this section, the amount of each modified supplement 7 amount shall be prorated. 8 Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of immediate 9 importance, takes effect upon enactment. > 10 2. Title page, by striking lines 1 through 3 and inserting 11 < An Act relating to education funding by establishing a 12 qualified instruction funding supplement for the school budget 13 year beginning July 1, 2021, authorizing modified supplemental 14 amounts for preschool funding, making appropriations, and 15 including effective date provisions. > 16 ______________________________ COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AMY SINCLAIR, CHAIRPERSON -5- HF532.1766 (2) 89 md/jh 5/ 5 #2.