H-1197

   Amend House File 789 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, by striking lines 1 through 17 and inserting: 
   <Section 1.  Section 256E.8, subsection 2, Code 2025, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  0d.  (1)  The department shall determine the actual enrollment of students in each charter school and shall calculate for each charter school a teacher salary supplement payment equal to the teacher salary supplement state cost per pupil amount for the budget year multiplied by the number of students enrolled in the charter school. The department shall pay the amounts calculated under this paragraph in monthly installments beginning on September 15 of a budget year and ending on or about June 15 of the budget year.
   (2)  The amounts paid pursuant to this paragraph shall be deducted on a monthly basis from the state foundation paid under section 257.16 to all school districts in the state in the school year in which the funds are to be paid to charter schools. The portion of the total amount paid by the department to charter schools deducted from the state foundation aid paid to any school district shall be the same as the ratio that the budget enrollment for the budget year of the district bears to the total budget enrollment in the state for that budget.
   Sec. ___.  Section 256E.8, subsection 2, paragraph d, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   d.  There is appropriated annually from the general fund of the state to the department of education an amount necessary to pay all applicable amounts to charter schools under paragraph paragraphs “c” and “0d”.>
   2.  Title page, by striking lines 1 through 3 and inserting <An Act relating to payments to charter schools for a teacher salary supplement, and including effective date and applicability provisions.>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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INGELS of Fayette