House Study Bill 274

                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                            EDUCATION BILL BY
                                            CHAIRPERSON TYMESON)


    Passed House, Date               Passed Senate,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing for a waiver of deadline requirements relating
  2    to whole=grade sharing agreements in specified school
  3    districts, and providing an effective date.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 3058HC 80
  6 rn/sh/8

PAG LIN

  1  1    Section 1.  WHOLE=GRADE SHARING AGREEMENT DEADLINE WAIVER.
  1  2 Notwithstanding sections 282.10 and 282.11, the department of
  1  3 education may, prior to July 1, 2003, and at the department's
  1  4 discretion, waive any of the deadline requirements of sections
  1  5 282.10 and 282.11, relating to the signing of a whole=grade
  1  6 sharing agreement by the boards of two or more school
  1  7 districts involved in the agreement and the public notice and
  1  8 hearing requirements, if one of the districts involved in the
  1  9 agreement has an enrollment of less than three hundred pupils
  1 10 and has formed a dissolution commission pursuant to section
  1 11 275.51.
  1 12    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of
  1 13 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  1 14                           EXPLANATION
  1 15    This bill provides that the department of education may,
  1 16 prior to July 1, 2003, and at the discretion of the
  1 17 department, waive requirements relating to deadlines for
  1 18 entering into whole=grade sharing agreements, and applicable
  1 19 notice and hearing requirements, as specified in Code sections
  1 20 282.10 and 282.11.  Code section 282.10 provides that a whole=
  1 21 grade sharing agreement shall be signed by the boards of the
  1 22 districts involved in the agreement not later than February 1
  1 23 of the school year prior to the year in which the agreement
  1 24 would go into effect, and Code section 282.11 provides for
  1 25 notice, hearing, and appeal procedures relating to the
  1 26 agreement within specified time frames.
  1 27    The bill provides that the option of a waiver shall be
  1 28 available if one of the school districts which is a party to a
  1 29 whole=grade sharing agreement has an enrollment of less than
  1 30 300 pupils, and has formed a dissolution commission pursuant
  1 31 to Code section 275.51.
  1 32    The bill takes effect upon enactment.
  1 33 LSB 3058HC 80
  1 34 rn/sh/8
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