Senate Joint Resolution 2008

                                  SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION       
                                  BY  KREIMAN


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                                SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION

  1 A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of
  2    the State of Iowa relating to free public schools and equality
  3    of educational opportunity.
  4 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Article IX of the Constitution of the State of
  1  2 Iowa is amended by adding the following new section:
  1  3    FREE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.  SEC. 16.
  1  4    The General Assembly shall provide a basic system of free
  1  5 quality public elementary and secondary schools.  The system
  1  6 shall guarantee equality of educational opportunity.  The
  1  7 General Assembly shall fund and distribute in an equitable
  1  8 manner to the school districts the state's share of the cost
  1  9 of the basic elementary and secondary school system.
  1 10    Sec. 2.  REFERRAL AND PUBLICATION.  The foregoing proposed
  1 11 amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa is referred
  1 12 to the General Assembly to be chosen at the next general
  1 13 election for members of the General Assembly, and the
  1 14 Secretary of State is directed to cause the same to be
  1 15 published for three consecutive months previous to the date of
  1 16 that election as provided by law.
  1 17                           EXPLANATION
  1 18    This joint resolution proposes an amendment to the
  1 19 Constitution of the State of Iowa relating to the
  1 20 establishment of state responsibility to provide a basic
  1 21 system of free quality public elementary and secondary
  1 22 schools, with the state's share of the funding to be equitably
  1 23 distributed.  The resolution, if adopted, would be referred to
  1 24 the next general assembly for adoption a second time before
  1 25 being submitted to the electorate for ratification.
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