Senate File 381 SENATE FILE BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION (SUCCESSOR TO SSB 1166) Passed Senate, Date Passed House, 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 3058SV 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 3058SV 80 1 34 rn/sh/8 1 35