House File 239 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  WISE


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
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                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act requiring the school budget review committee to grant
  2    transportation assistance aid to school districts under
  3    certain circumstances and making a standing appropriation.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 2176HH 81
  6 kh/gg/14

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 257.31, subsection 17, paragraph a,
  1  2 Code 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    a.  If a district's average transportation costs per pupil
  1  4 exceed the state average transportation costs per pupil
  1  5 determined under paragraph "c" by one hundred fifty percent,
  1  6 the committee may shall grant transportation assistance aid to
  1  7 the district in an amount up to, but not exceeding, fifty
  1  8 cents of transportation assistance for each dollar by which
  1  9 the district's average transportation costs per pupil exceed
  1 10 the state average transportation costs per pupil as determined
  1 11 under paragraph "c".  Such aid shall be miscellaneous income
  1 12 and shall not be included in district cost.
  1 13    Sec. 2.  Section 257.31, subsection 17, Code 2005, is
  1 14 amended by adding the following new paragraphs:
  1 15    NEW PARAGRAPH.  e.  There is appropriated from the general
  1 16 fund of the state to the committee, for the fiscal year
  1 17 beginning July 1, 2005, and each succeeding fiscal year, up to
  1 18 eight million seven hundred sixty=four thousand dollars for
  1 19 transportation assistance aid to school districts as provided
  1 20 in this subsection, which shall supplement, not supplant, the
  1 21 moneys appropriated pursuant to paragraph "d".
  1 22    NEW PARAGRAPH.  f.  The committee shall adopt rules
  1 23 pursuant to chapter 17A for granting transportation assistance
  1 24 aid and for otherwise administering this subsection.
  1 25                           EXPLANATION
  1 26    This bill appropriates approximately $8.76 million annually
  1 27 to the school budget review committee for transportation
  1 28 assistance aid to school districts, in an amount up to 50
  1 29 cents for each dollar by which the district's average
  1 30 transportation costs exceed the state average transportation
  1 31 costs per pupil.  The moneys appropriated are to supplement,
  1 32 not supplant, moneys appropriated to the committee from the
  1 33 sale of vehicle registration plates with an education emblem.
  1 34 LSB 2176HH 81
  1 35 kh:nh/gg/14