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: 3 < Section 1. Section 282.18, subsection 8, paragraphs b and 4 c, Code 2024, are amended to read as follows: > 5 2. Page 2, after line 2 by inserting: 6 < 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” . > 35 -1- HF 2278.3996.S (1) 90 mb 1/ 1 #1. #2.