H-8366

   Amend Senate File 2435, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  Page 43, after line 6 by inserting: 
<DIVISION ___
STATEWIDE PRESCHOOL

   Sec. ___.  Section 256C.5, subsection 1, paragraph c, Code 2024, is amended to read as follows:
   c.  “Preschool budget enrollment” means:
   (1)  For school districts providing ten or more hours, but less than twenty hours, per week of instruction, the figure that is equal to fifty percent of the actual enrollment of eligible students in the preschool programming provided by a school district approved to participate in the preschool program on October 1 of the base year, or the first Monday in October if October 1 falls on a Saturday or Sunday.
   (2)  For school districts providing twenty or more hours per week of instruction, the figure that is equal to the actual enrollment of eligible students in the preschool programming provided by a school district approved to participate in the preschool program on October 1 of the base year, or the first Monday in October if October 1 falls on a Saturday or Sunday.
   Sec. ___.  APPLICABILITY.  This division of this Act applies to school budget years beginning on or after July 1, 2024.>
   2.  Title page, line 6, after <committee,> by inserting <the statewide preschool program,>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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EHLERT of Linn