H-8051

   Amend House File 2493 as follows:
   1.  Page 3, after line 14 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 256C.5, subsection 1, paragraph c, Code 2026, is amended to read as follows:
   c.  “Preschool budget enrollment” means 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.
   Sec. ___.  Section 256C.5, subsection 2, paragraph a, Code 2026, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  For the initial school year for which a school district approved to participate in the preschool program receives that approval and implements the preschool program, the funding for the preschool foundation aid payable to that school district shall be paid from the appropriation made for that school year in section 256C.6, Code 2011, or in another appropriation made for purposes of this chapter. For that school year, the preschool foundation aid payable to the school district is the product of the regular program state cost per pupil for the school year multiplied by sixty percent of the school district’s eligible student enrollment on the date in the school year determined by rule.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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EHLERT of Linn