H-8175

   Amend House File 2547 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: 
<DIVISION I
CHRONICALLY ABSENT STUDENTS>
   2.  Page 1, after line 22 by inserting: 
<DIVISION ___
OPEN ENROLLMENT —— STATE AID

   Sec. ___.  Section 257.31, subsection 5, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2024, is amended to read as follows:
   If a district has unusual circumstances, creating an unusual need for additional funds, including but not limited to the circumstances enumerated in paragraphs “a” through “n” this subsection, the committee may grant supplemental aid to the district from any funds appropriated to the department of education for the use of the school budget review committee for the purposes of this subsection. The school budget review committee shall review a school district’s unexpended fund balance prior to any decision regarding unusual finance circumstances. Such aid shall be miscellaneous income and shall not be included in district cost. In addition to or as an alternative to granting supplemental aid the committee may establish a modified supplemental amount for the district. The school budget review committee shall review a school district’s unspent balance prior to any decision to establish a modified supplemental amount under this subsection.
   Sec. ___.  Section 257.31, subsection 5, Code 2024, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  o.  (1)  The percentage of students enrolled in the school district as the result of open enrollment under section 282.18 is equal to or greater than forty percent of the total number of students enrolled in the school district. The committee shall not approve supplemental aid or a modified supplemental amount that exceeds an amount equal to fifty percent of the product of the net increase in the school district’s enrollment due to open enrollment multiplied by the sum of the following amounts:
   (a)  The difference between the district’s regular program district cost per pupil minus the regular program state cost per pupil.
   (b)  The teacher salary supplement district cost per pupil.
   (c)  The professional development supplement district cost per pupil.
   (d)  The early intervention supplement district cost per pupil.
   (2)  Prior to filing a request for supplemental aid or a modified supplemental amount based on the grounds specified in this paragraph, the board of directors shall hold a public hearing on the issue and shall publish the notice of the time and place of the public hearing. Notice of the time and place of the public hearing shall be published not less than ten nor more than twenty days before the public hearing in a newspaper that is a newspaper of general circulation in the school district.
   (3)  A school district is not eligible for supplemental aid or a modified supplemental amount under this paragraph if a majority of the students enrolled in the school district as the result of open enrollment are students receiving online instruction from a private provider under section 256.43, subsection 2.
   Sec. ___.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This division of this Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
   Sec. ___.  APPLICABILITY.  This division of this Act applies July 1, 2024, for school budget years beginning on or after that date.>
   3.  Title page, by striking lines 1 and 2 and inserting <An Act relating to education, including by requiring the development of an attendance improvement plan when a student is chronically absent from school and modifying provisions related to supplemental aid and modified supplemental amounts for certain school districts related to open enrollment, and including effective date and applicability provisions.>
   4.  By renumbering as necessary.

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RINKER of Des Moines