S-5222

   Amend House File 2754, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the House, as follows:
   1.  Page 50, after line 3 by inserting: 
   <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 on October 1, or the first Monday in October if October 1 falls on a Saturday or Sunday.  For that school year, the preschool foundation aid payable to the school district shall be paid as soon as is reasonably possible after October 1, but not later than December 31 of the same school year.>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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JANET PETERSEN