Senate
Amendment
to
House
File
2278
H-8266
Amend
House
File
2278,
as
amended,
passed,
and
reprinted
by
1
the
House,
as
follows:
2
1.
Page
1,
by
striking
lines
1
and
2
and
inserting:
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Section
1.
Section
282.18,
subsection
8,
paragraphs
b
and
4
c,
Code
2024,
are
amended
to
read
as
follows:
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2.
Page
2,
after
line
2
by
inserting:
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c.
(1)
If
the
pupil
meets
the
economic
eligibility
7
requirements
established
by
the
department
and
state
board
8
of
education,
the
sending
district
is
responsible
for
9
providing
transportation
or
paying
the
pro
rata
cost
of
the
10
transportation
to
a
parent
or
guardian
for
transporting
the
11
pupil
to
and
from
a
point
on
a
regular
school
bus
route
of
12
a
contiguous
receiving
district
unless
the
cost
of
providing
13
transportation
or
the
pro
rata
cost
of
the
transportation
to
14
a
parent
or
guardian
exceeds
the
average
transportation
cost
15
per
pupil
transported
for
the
previous
school
year
in
the
16
district.
The
economic
eligibility
requirements
established
17
by
the
department
of
education
and
state
board
of
education
18
shall
minimally
include
those
pupils
with
household
incomes
of
19
two
hundred
percent
or
less
of
the
federal
poverty
level
as
20
defined
by
the
most
recently
revised
poverty
income
guidelines
21
published
by
the
United
States
department
of
health
and
human
22
services.
If
the
cost
exceeds
the
average
transportation
cost
23
per
pupil
transported
for
the
previous
school
year,
the
sending
24
district
shall
only
be
responsible
for
that
average
per
pupil
25
amount.
A
sending
district
which
provides
transportation
26
for
a
pupil
to
a
contiguous
receiving
district
under
this
27
subsection
may
withhold,
from
the
district
cost
per
pupil
28
amount
that
is
to
be
paid
to
the
receiving
district,
an
amount
29
which
represents
the
average
or
pro
rata
cost
per
pupil
for
30
transportation,
whichever
is
less.
31
(2)
A
sending
district
shall
not
be
responsible
for
paying
a
32
parent
or
guardian
pursuant
to
subparagraph
(1)
if
the
pupil
is
33
transported
by
the
receiving
district
to
and
from
school
in
the
34
receiving
district
pursuant
to
paragraph
“b”
.
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